Putting the U in carbon capture and storage: rhetorical boundary negotiation within the CCS/CCUS scientific community

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...

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Published inJournal of Applied Communication Research Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 362 - 380
Main Authors Endres, Danielle, Cozen, Brian, O'Byrne, Megan, Feldpausch-Parker, Andrea M., Peterson, Tarla Rai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Annandale Routledge 01.10.2016
National Communication Association
Subjects
Carbon sequestration
Climate change
Climate change communication
Communication
Energy policy
Rhetoric
rhetorical field methods
science communication
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0090-9882
1479-5752
DOI:10.1080/00909882.2016.1225160