Putting the U in Carbon Capture and Storage: Rhetorical Boundary Negotiation Within the CCS/CCUS Scientific Community

Authors

D. Endres, University of Utah
Brian Cozen, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
M. O’Byrne, Kutztown University
A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, Department of Environmental Studies
T. R. Peterson, University of Texas

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volume

44

Issue

4

First page number:

362

Last page number:

380

Abstract

This paper examines responses to a framing shift from carbon capture and storage (CCS) to carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) within science and engineering professionals’ communication. We argue that the framing shift is a breach in the rhetorical boundaries of the CCS professional community that calls forth negotiation through responses that proactively support, resist, or acquiesce. This study offers a heuristic for examining scientific framing in expert-to-expert internal scientific rhetoric. It also contributes to contemporary research on the intersection of rhetoric of science and science, technology, and society; the social dimensions of CCS; energy communication; and applied communicative practices in scientific communities. © 2016 National Communication Association.

Keywords

Climate change communication; energy policy; rhetorical field methods; science communication

File Format

pdf

File Size

1580 KB

Language

English

Repository Citation

Endres, D., Cozen, B., O’Byrne, M., Feldpausch-Parker, A. M., Peterson, T. R. (2016). Putting the U in Carbon Capture and Storage: Rhetorical Boundary Negotiation Within the CCS/CCUS Scientific Community. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(4), 362-380.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2016.1225160