Science Communication in the World

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9789400742789
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 682 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XXVI, 318 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 318
• Pagine Romane: xxvi