An Arctic community seeks to understand how to use and benefit from new climate models prepared by another country’s meteorological service and distributed online. Residents of two neighbouring countries address complex environmental, technological, and civic implications of a new high-speed train line connecting them, using both physical demonstrations and social media. Activists opposed to the…
Giuseppe Pellegrini will attend the Seminar organized within the MORE-PE project, an international project (2016-2018) aimed at mapping the culture of public engagement at research institutes (RIs). It aims to assemble a database of comparable data on aspects of public engagement (PE) at the institutional level in Europe, Asia and United States. MORE-PE will provide…
M. Bucchi, Credibility, expertise and the challenges of science communication 2.0, «Public Understanding of Science», 2017, 26 (8), pp. 890-893. Recently, wide-ranging discussions about so-called ‘post-truth’ have also significantly involved science-related topics and science communication. The issue of credibility and reliability of information is obviously central for science communication and public understanding of science. However, some…