The Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology has been re-published in a second edition (Routledge, 2014; 258 pages), revised and updated. Edited by M. Bucchi and B. Trench, among the authors we find M. Bauer, B. Lewenstein, H. P. Peters and M. Nisbet. This latest version includes four added chapters, which focus on global aspects of…
Professor Bonnet, in his book “Off the map”, show us all those cities which only exist on Google Map, as well as those ones which, although real, are not displayed. Read here the article or watch the video.
“Ten Years of Science and Technology in Society”, the article by M. Bucchi published on the new Japanese magazine, Five – Designing Media Ecology.
[SALVADOR/LONDON] Science media centres, institutions that aim to improve the coverage of science in the media, seem to be proliferating. New ones are being planned or created in Denmark, Germany, the European Union and the United States, following the ones that are already operating in Australia, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. And a possible…
“The multiple dimensions of Post-Fukushima disaster recovery process” is an international conference, which will be held in Fukushima , from 25th to 27th of July. The conference, promoted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, will be hosted by the Fukushima Medical University. M. Bucchi will give a lecture, as keynote speaker.
M. Bucchi has been elected in the Scientific Committee of the International Network for Public communication of Science and Technology (PCST), for the quadriennium 2014-2018. The new President of the Network is B. Trench, also member of Observa Scientific Committee.
In 2012, I attended a meeting on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) at the EU parliament in Brussels. The room was packed with members of the parliament and other influential decision makers. Top experts came to present their (really) exciting results with hESCs in an understandable way. It was clearly a lobbying effort to support…
PCST2014 was held in Salvador, Brazil, from 5th to 8th May. The 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference focused on political engagement for social inclusion. Special attention has been given to those people who have no access to education and to science goods, like people who live in remote areas; immigrants, who have…
Observa visited the New York Hall of Science, one of the best interactive science center in U.S. NYSCI offers hands on, space for experiments and science playgrounds for all ages. NYSCI occupies one of the few remaining structures of the 1964 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park in the borough.