Science Communication in the World Practices, Theories and Trends

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.