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

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

Language

English

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