From a press statement I gave last week about the risk communication around the NND project in Denmark: “Science which camouflages as PR or vice-versa inevitably erodes the trust laypeople put into academic institutions. […] It would be dreadful if European institutions fell back into the dissemination deadlock,” he says, and concludes: “This certainly is…
Europe’s largest research project on science communication, PLACES, is coming to a close. Yesterday, at the final conference, I shared a few ideas of the advisory board I had the privilege to chair in the past few years. Let me reflect upon this a bit: What our board regarded as particularly important, was to touch…
The most relevant transnational network of both scholars and practitioners in the “Public Communication of Science and Technology” (PCST) has just become a membership organisation, in the sense of a ‘learned society’. I can strongly recommend considering such a membership (just 30 USD for 2 years), since PCST is certainly by far the most active…
Blogger-Kollege Reiner Korbmann hat gerade ein wissenschaftliches Paper von Dietram Scheufele besprochen und auf die Sackler-Colloquien in den USA verwiesen, was ich eigentlich längst hier im Blog hätte tun sollen. Gerade aus dem US/UK-Umfeld gibt es so viel wertvolle sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung zum Thema Wissenschaftskommunikation, die allerdings von den allermeisten Praktikern hierzulande fast gar nicht wahrgenommen…
Matthew C. Nisbet (Associate Professor of Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Social Media in Washington, @MCNisbet) examines writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben’s (@billmckibben) career and impact on the debate over climate change: “McKibben is an example of what Nisbet calls a ‘knowledge journalist,’ a special class of public intellectual who writes journalistically, but who unlike…
Ein Gast(blog)beitrag von Florian Fisch, Biochemiker, freier Wissenschaftsjournalist und Blogger auf dem ScienceSofa in der Schweiz, im Vorfeld des zweiten Schweizer Forums für Wissenschaftskommunikation — ScienceComm Wissenschaft braucht Geld, und damit der Mammon auch kräftig sprudelt, müssen die Projekte den Geldgebern (Steuerzahler und Konsumenten) verkauft werden. Eine deutlich lockerere Wissenschaftskommunikation wünscht sich deshalb Philipp Egger,…
Our board member Martin Bauer, Professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), by many of you known for his role in the Eurobarometer Studies on societal acceptance of research and technology, has published a remarkable book on intercultural aspects, changes and stabilities of public perceptions…
It was the largest grassroots initiative in US history: The “Science Debate” in reaction to the presidential campaign in 2008 (see Wikipedia entry). Among the scientific organizations supporting the campaign were the Carnegie Institution, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Biophysical…
“Cities of scientific culture” are the topic of the EU-funded project “Open Places“, constisting of no less than 69 partnerships from 27 European countries, every one a joint initiative of science communication institutions and local policymakers. The project partners mainly want to mutually learn from each other’s experiences, which is exactly what happened at the…
Als die britische Boulevard-Presse mitten in den August-Unruhen eine Meldung der Uni Cardiff zu Neurotransmittern für eigene Zwecke missbrauchte, machten sich die drei unverstandenen Forscher Petroc Sumner, Frederic Boy und Chris Chambers bereit zum Gegenschlag. Die Zeitung The Guardian druckte ihre ausführliche Replik, die man als konstruktive Medienschelte bezeichnen könnte: How can we stop newspapers…
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