CONCISE project aims to generate a European-wide debate on science communication, involving a wide array of stakeholders, from media outlets to policy makers, from scientists to business companies, from science communicators to civil society organisations. CONCISE aims at providing qualitative knowledge through citizen consultation on the means/channels (media and social networks, life experience, relatives, religion,…
Merck Serono intends to strengthen its commitment to spreading and promoting a culture of science, turning this time to a particular audience: young people. Accustomed to perceiving science as something far away from their daily life, often confused with science fiction, young people are likely to lose the bond with a branch of knowledge that…
The ‘Youth, Science and Technology’ survey, promoted and coordinated by Observa and Pristem Bocconi in the spring 2017, was carried out using some of the questions of the ROSE (Relevance of Science Education) research questionnaire dedicated to studying student orientation towards science and technology (Schreiner & Sjoberg, 2005). The survey was also carried out in…
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…
Friday 27th October, five roundtables on five keywords of Science in Society trends and changes. By invitation only. Introduction by Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento), PUS editor. With the participation of: ?Martin Bauer (London School of Economics and Political Science) Lorenzo Beltrame (University of Trento) Emanuela Bozzini (University of Trento) Alberto Brodesco (University of Trento) Attila Bruni (University of Trento) Edna…
di Kristian H. Nielsen Helga Nowotny is author and coauthor of an impressive number of significant contributions to understanding our contemporary late-modern condition with respect to knowledge, science, and technology. She has always emphasized the importance of research-based knowledge, while acknowledging that science is both tentative and fragile. In her latest book, she explicitly deals…
The next edition of PCST will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from the 4th to the 6th of April 2018. The conference will be dedicated to the theme Science, Stories and Society… the Soul of Science Communication. The call for proposals is now open: the deadline is on the 1st of October 2017. You can…
From Public Understanding of Science blog Haeckel’s Embryos. Images, Evolution, and Fraud, by Nick Hopwood, | The University of Chicago Press, 2015 The book addresses one of the most intriguing and fresh topics in the history of science of the last few decades: the relationship between science and the visual. Nick Hopwood, historian of science and medicine at…