Offers a comprehensive account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain
Features special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universities, the promotion of science culture in the EU, and the measurement of science culture
Provides multilateral perspectives from five continents
This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved in science communication, including researchers, academics, students, journalists, science museum staff, scientists high public profiles, and information officers in scientific institutions.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
PART 1: National Overviews
1. The `Communicative Turn´ in Contemporary Techno-Science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies
2. The Evolution of Science Communication Research on Australia
3. The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada
4. Science Popularization Studies in China
5. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China
6. Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark
7. Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique
8. The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany
9. Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead
10. Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa
11. An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media
12. From Science Popularization To Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea
13. Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy
14. Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain
PART 2: Horizontal Issues
15. Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication
16. Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject
17. Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press
18. Engagement: The Key To the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas
19. From Public To Policy
20. Science Culture and its Indicators
Index.
The wonders of science have a powerful hold on the imagination, yet the challenge of conveying to the public the expanding frontiers of human scientific knowledge grows daily more complex. This analysis of the process has three goals. First, to offer a survey of research conducted in the field of public communication of science and technology (PCST) over the past four decades, in a range of countries. Then—and this second ambition is enabled by the preceding one—it identifies and focuses on the researchers´ varying methods and perspectives. While all countries have, at times and to varying degrees, embarked on extremely ambitious policies to promote and valorize scientific and technical culture, the objectives they pursue must be understood and assessed within specific national contexts. This fact has guided our conceptualization of problems as well as our search for solutions. Our third and final ambition is to establish the trends implicit in these efforts.
From the reviews:
"This volume represents the result of several years´ research collaboration in the field of public communication of science and technology, presented and discussed from a global viewpoint. ... this book an interesting and inspired read which changed my understanding and perception of the field of scientific communication. An informative and thought-provoking volume, Science Communication in the World should be of interest to a wide audience, including researchers, teachers, students, journalists and those involved in the history of science.” (Kevin Coward, The Biologist, Vol. 59 (5), December, 2012)
This account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain includes special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universities as well as on measuring the public impact of the culture of science.
Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Introduction.- PART 1: National Overviews.- 1. The 'Communicative Turn' in Contemporary Techno-Science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies.- 2. The Evolution of Science Communication Research on Australia.- 3. The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada.- 4. Science Popularization Studies in China.- 5. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China.- 6. Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark.- 7. Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique.- 8. The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany.- 9. Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead.- 10. Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa.- 11. An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media.- 12. From Science Popularization To Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea.- 13. Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy.- 14. Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain.- PART 2: Horizontal Issues.- 15. Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication.- 16. Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject.- 17. Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press.- 18. Engagement: The Key To the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas.- 19. From Public To Policy.- 20. Science Culture and its Indicators.- Index.
From the reviews:
"This volume represents the result of several years' research collaboration in the field of public communication of science and technology, presented and discussed from a global viewpoint. ... this book an interesting and inspired read which changed my understanding and perception of the field of scientific communication. An informative and thought-provoking volume, Science Communication in the World should be of interest to a wide audience, including researchers, teachers, students, journalists and those involved in the history of science." (Kevin Coward, The Biologist, Vol. 59 (5), December, 2012)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction PART 1: National Overviews 1. The `Communicative Turn¿ in Contemporary Techno-Science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies 2. The Evolution of Science Communication Research on Australia 3. The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada 4. Science Popularization Studies in China 5. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China 6. Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark 7. Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique 8. The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany 9. Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead 10. Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa 11. An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media 12. From Science Popularization To Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea 13. Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy 14. Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain PART 2: Horizontal Issues 15. Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication 16. Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject 17. Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press 18. Engagement: The Key To the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas 19. From Public To Policy 20. Science Culture and its IndicatorsIndex.
Klappentext
This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved in science communication, including researchers, academics, students, journalists, science museum staff, scientists high public profiles, and information officers in scientific institutions.
Offers a comprehensive account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain
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Features special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universities, the promotion of science culture in the EU, and the measurement of science culture
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Provides multilateral perspectives from five continents
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