Social representations of electricity network technologies: Exploring processes of anchoring and objectification through the use of visual research methods

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 357-373

  Devine Wright, Hannah ^a   Devine Wright, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ART; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; POWER SUPPLY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLISM; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ART; ASSOCIATION; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM; TECHNOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649121899     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466608X349504     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Abric, J.-C. (1996). Specific processes of social representations. Papers on Social Representations, 5(1), 77-80.
2. Bauer, M. W., & Gaskell, G. (1999). Towards a paradigm for research on social representations. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 29(2), 163-186.
3. Bell, D., Gray, T., & Haggett, C. (2005). The 'social gap' in wind farm policy siting decisions: Explanations and policy responses. Environmental Politics, 14(4), 460-477.
4. Billig, M. (1993). Studying the thinking society: Social representations, rhetoric, and attitudes. In G. M. Breakwell & D. V. Canter (Eds.), Empirical approaches to social representations (pp. 39-62). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
5. Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 77-101.
6. Byford, J. T. (2002). Anchoring and objectifying neocortical warfare: Re-presentation of a biological metaphor in Serbian conspiracy literature. Papers on Social Representations, 11, 3.1-3.14.
7. Carbon Trust/Department of Trade and Industry (2004). Renewables network impact study. http://www.carbontrust.org.uk/carbontrust/about/about5_3.html. Available online (last accessed May 29, 2005).
8. Castro, P., & Gomes, I. (2005). Genetically modified organisms in the Portuguese press: Thematization and anchoring. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35, 1-17.
9. Corner, J., Richardson, K., & Fenton, N. (1990). Nuclear reactions: Form and response in public issue television. London: Libbey.
10. Department of Trade and Industry (2006). The energy challenge. Energy review: A report. Norwich: HM Government.
11. Devine-Wright, H (1998). Conformation and individuation in social representation. Unpublished PhD thesis. Guildford: University of Surrey.
12. Devine-Wright, P. (2005). Beyond NIMBYism: Towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy. Wind Energy, 8(2), 125-139.
13. Devine-Wright, P., & Devine-Wright, H. (2006). Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK. International Journal of Global Energy Issues: Special issue on Intermittency, 25(3/4), 243-256.
14. Draper, G., Vincent, T., Kroll, M. E., & Swanson, J. (2005). Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: A case-control study. British Medical Journal, 330(7503), 1290.
15. Dunlap, R., Van Liere, K., Mertig, A., Catton, W., Jr., & Howell, R. (2000). Measuring endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A revised NEP scale. Journal of Social Issues, 56(1), 425-441.
16. Flynn, R., Bellaby, P., & Ricci, M. (2006). Risk perception of an emergent technology: The case of hydrogen energy. Forum for Qualitative Social Research/Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 7(1). Retrieved 28/08/2008 from http://www.qualitative.research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/58/120
17. Gaskell, G. (1994). Survey research and consensuality: Statistical and natural groups. Papers on Social Representations, 3(1), 1-138.
18. Gaskell, G. (2000). Individual and group interviewing. In M. W. Bauer & G. Gaskell (Eds.), Qualitative researching with text, image and sound (pp. 38-56). London: Sage publications.
19. Gauntlett, D., & Holzwarth, P. (2006). Creative and visual methods for exploring identities. Visual Studies, 21(1), 82-91.
20. Henderson, K. (2007). Achieving legitimacy: Visual discourses in engineering design and green building code development. Building Research and Information, 35(1), 6-17.
21. Irwin, A., Simmons, P., & Walker, G. (1999). Faulty environments and risk reasoning: The local understanding of industrial hazards. Environment and Planning, 31, 1311-1326.
22. Joffe, H. (2003). Risk: From perception to social representation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 55-73.
23. Joffe, H. (2008). The power of visual material: Persuasion, emotion and identification. Diogenes, 55 (1), 84-93.
24. Joffe, H., & Yardley, L. (2004). Content and thematic analysis. In D. F. Marks & L. Yardley (Eds.), Research methods for clinical and health psychology (pp. 56-68). London: Sage.
25. Leggett, M., & Finlay, M. (2001). Science, story, and image: A new approach to crossing the communication barrier posed by scientific jargon. Public Understanding of Science, 10(2), 157-171.
26. Magnani, R. K., Sabin, K., Saidel, T., & Heckathorn, D. (2005). Review of sampling hard-to-reach and hidden populations for HIV surveillance. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 19(2), 67-72.
27. Mamali, C. (2006). The value of images for exploring the functions of social representations: Toward self-generated pictorial social representations. A comment on 'History, emotions and hetero-referential representations' by Sen and Wagner (2005). Papers on Social Representations, 15, 3.1-3.9.
28. Moscovici, S. (1984). The myth of the lonely paradigm: A rejoinder. Social Research, 51(4), 939-967.
29. Moscovici, S. (1985). Comment on Potter and Litton. British Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 91-92.
30. Moscovici, S. (1990). Social psychology and developmental psychology: Extending the conversation. In G. Duveen & B. Lloyd (Eds.), Social representations and the development of knowledge (pp. 164-185). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Moscovici, S. (2000). Social representations: Explorations in social psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
32. National Grid. (2008). Annual Report and Accounts 2007/08. Retrieved from www.national grid.com/annualreports/2008/05_operating_fin_review/ofrtransmission.html.
33. Patterson, W. (2007). Keeping the lights on: Towards sustainable electricity. London: Earthscan.
34. Penn, G. (2000). Semiotic analysis of still images. In M. W. Bauer & G. Gaskell (Eds.), Qualitative researching with text, image and sound (pp. 227-245). London: Sage.
35. Petersen, A., Anderson, A., Wilkinson, C, & Allan, S (2007). Nanotechnologies, risk and society. Health, Risk and Society, 9(2), 117-124.
36. Priestley, T., & Evans, G. W. (1996). Resident perceptions of a nearby electric transmission line. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16, 65-74.
37. Psathas, G. (1995). Conversation analysis: The study of talk-in-interaction. London: Sage Publications.
38. Qualter, A. (1995). A source of power: Young children's understanding of where electricity comes from. Research in Science and Technological Education, 13(2), 177-186.
39. Radley, A., & Bell, S. E. (2007). Artworks, collective experience and claims for social justice: The case of women living with breast cancer. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(3), 366-390.
40. Radley, A. D., Hodgetts, D., & Cullen, A. (2005). Visualizing homelessness: A study in photography and estrangement. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 15, 273-295.
41. Savoie-Zajc, L. (2005). Children's visual representations of food and meal time: Towards and understanding of nutrition and educational practices. European Educational Research Journal, 4(2), 132-141.
42. Sen, R., & Wagner, W. (2005). History, emotions and hetero-referential representations in intergroup conflict: The example of Hindu-Muslim relations in India. Papers on Social Representations, 14, 2.1-2.23.
43. Shepherd, R., Barnett, J., Cooper, H., Coyle, A., Moran-Ellis, J., Senior, V., et al. (2007). Towards an understanding of British attitudes concerning human cloning. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 377-392.
44. Sibley, C. G., Liu, J. H., & Kirkwood, S. (2006). Toward a social representations theory of attitude change: The effect of message framing on general and specific attitudes toward equality and entitlement. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 35(1), 3-11.
45. Sims, S., & Dent, P. (2005). High-voltage overhead power lines and property values: A residential study in the UK. Urban Studies, 42(4), 665-694.
46. Spini, D., & Doise, W. (1998). Organising principles of involvement in human rights and their social anchoring in value priorities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 603-622.
47. The Royal Academy of Engineering (2004). The cost of generating electricity. (pp. 1-54). Retrieved 28/08/2008 from www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/cost_of_Generating_Electricity.pdf
48. Wagner,W. (2007). Vernacular science knowledge: Its role in everyday life communication. Public Understanding of Science, 16, 7-22.
49. Wagner, W., & Hayes, N. (2005). Everyday discourse and common sense: The theory of social representations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
50. Wagner, W., & Kronberger, N. (2001). Killer tomatoes! Collective symbolic coping with biotechnology. In K. Deaux & G. Philogene (Eds.), Representations of the social (pp. 147-164). Oxford: Blackwell.
51. Wynne, B. (1982). Rationality and ritual: The Windscale inquiry and nuclear decisions in Britain. British Society for the History of Science. Bucks: Chalfont St Giles.