| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 317 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. National overviews -- The 'Communicative Turn' in Contemporary Techno-science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies / Carmelo Polino and Yurij Castelfranchi -- The Evolution of Science Communication Research in Australia / Jenni Metcalfe and Toss Gascoigne -- The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada / Bernard Schiele and Anik Landry -- Science Popularization Studies in China / Fujun Ren, Lin Yin and Honglin Li -- Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China / Shunke Shi and Huiliang Zhang -- Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark / Maja Horst -- Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique / Michèle Gellereau, Yves Jeanneret and Joëlle Le Marec -- The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany / Markus Lehmkuhl -- Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead / Gauhar Raza, Surjit Singh and P.V.S. Kumar -- Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa / Hester du Plessis -- An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media / Sook-Kyoung Cho -- From Science Popularization to Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea / Sung Kyum Cho and Ock Tae Kim -- Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy / Vladimir de Semir -- Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain / Xavier Roigé |
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pt. 2. Horizontal issues -- Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication / Michel Claessens -- Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject / Brian Trench -- Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press / Massimiano Bucchi -- Engagement: The Key to the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas / Hak-Soo Kim -- From Public to Policy / Jan Riise -- Science Culture and Its Indicators / Martin W. Bauer |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Environmental sciences |
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Mathematics |
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Adult education |
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Environment |
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Communication Studies |
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History of Science |
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Lifelong Learning/Adult Education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communication in science.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Communication in science
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schiele, Bernard.
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Claessens, Michel.
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Shi, Shunke
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| ISBN |
9789400742796 |
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9400742797 |
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