Nicholas Russell

Communicating Science (eBook, ePUB)

Professional, Popular, Literary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication. This book critically examines the origin of this drive to improve communication, and discusses why simply improving scientists' communication skills and understanding of their audiences may not be enough. Written in an engaging style, and avoiding specialist jargon, this book provides an insight into science's place in society by looking at science communication in three contexts: the professional patterns of communication among scientists, popular communication to the public, and science in literature and drama. This three-part framework shows how historical and cultural factors operate in today's complex communication landscape, and should be actively considered when designing and evaluating science communication. Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book provides a better understanding of the culture, sociology and mechanics of professional and popular communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511847554
• Artikelnr.: 52965988

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Russell is Emeritus Reader in Science Communication in the Department of Humanities at Imperial College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: what this book is about and why you might want to read it;
Prologue: three orphans share a common paternity: professional science
communication, popular journalism, and literary fiction are not as separate
as they seem; Part I. Professional Science Communication: 1. Spreading the
word: the endless struggle to publish professional science; 2. Walk like an
Egyptian: the alien feeling of professional science writing; 3. The
future's bright? Professional science communication in the age of the
internet; 4. Counting the horse's teeth: professional standards in
science's barter economy; 5. Separating the wheat from the chaff: peer
review on trial; Part II. Science for the Public: What Science Do People
Need and How Might They Get It?: 6. The Public Understanding of Science
(PUS) movement and its problems; 7. Public engagement with science and
technology (PEST): fine principle, difficult practice; 8. Citizen
scientists? Democratic input into science policy; 9. Teaching and learning
science in schools: implications for popular science communication; Part
III. Popular Science Communication: The Press and Broadcasting: 10. What
every scientist should know about mass media; 11. What every scientist
should know about journalists; 12. The influence of new media; 13. How the
media represents science; 14. How should science journalists behave?; Part
IV. The Origins of Science in Cultural Context: Five Historic Dramas: 15. A
terrible storm in Wittenberg: natural knowledge through sorcery and evil;
16. A terrible storm in the Mediterranean: controlling nature with white
magic and religion; 17. Thieving magpies: the subtle art of false
projecting; 18. Foolish virtuosi: natural philosophy emerges as a distinct
discipline but many cannot take it seriously; 19. Is scientific knowledge
'true' or should it just be 'truthfully' deployed?; Part V. Science in
Literature: 20. Science and the Gothic: the three big nineteenth-century
monster stories; 21. Science fiction: serious literature of ideas or
low-grade entertainment?; 22. Science in British literary fiction; 23.
Science on stage: the politics and ethics of science in cultural and
educational contexts.