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@Article{Valentino:1999:ITW,
  author =       "Mattio Valentino",
  title =        "Information, Technical Writing, Knowledge, and Power",
  journal =      j-ASTERISK,
  volume =       "23",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "3--18",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1999",
  CODEN =        "ASTRF7",
  ISSN =         "0731-1001",
  bibdate =      "Wed Dec 06 08:46:56 2000",
  bibsource =    "http://web.mit.edu/tps/www/NL/SIGDOC_WWW/jcdtoc/sigtoc.html;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/jcd.bib",
  abstract =     "In this paper Valentino reproduces and discusses Marin
                 County Resolution 97-20 (protesting NASA's launch of
                 the Cassini spacecraft on which 72 pounds of plutonium
                 were used to generate power) and NASA's informal and
                 formal responses to that resolution (in which they
                 summarize the technical arguments for Cassini's
                 safety). His rhetorical analysis of these documents
                 concludes that those ``fluent in the privileged
                 discourse of science'' have disproportionate influence
                 on public policy, even when health threats are
                 involved. Three open commentaries accompany Valentino's
                 article. In the first, Gregory Clark argues that ``it
                 is not the authority of knowledge'' that dominates
                 public policy, but rather ``the authority of
                 expertise,'' which comes primarily from institutional
                 affiliation (19-21). In the second, Regina Lundgren
                 contends that ``their use of technical and bureaucratic
                 language'' often actually isolates scientists from
                 power and from influence over democratic decision
                 making (22-24). In the third, Larry Shuman shows by
                 using public documents that the facts of the
                 Marin/Cassini safety dispute fail to support the
                 analysis that Valentino offers (25-27).",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

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