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The Special Challenge of Exhibits on Evolution is a summative report that reviews published research on how visitors to science and natural history museums perceive evolution and exhibits on evolution....
DATE: October 15th, 2016
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This article concerns the conservation of historic doped fabric aeroplanes in the static museum setting of the Science Museumâs Flight gallery. It reviews historic sources, primarily archival and scientific research...
DATE: October 5th, 2016
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This essay explores the extent to which residues of the practices inherent in nineteenth-century science lecture-demonstrations from the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) are evident in contemporary forms of...
DATE: October 18th, 2016
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In December the Science Museum will open Mathematics: The Winton Gallery. The new gallery tells mathematical stories in relation to a broad spectrum of fundamental human concerns. One of the...
DATE: October 18th, 2016
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Among the exhibits at the 2016 Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Science Museum, London, was one that purported to illustrate Leonardoâs experiments on friction. The models involved were the...
DATE: October 19th, 2016
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Peter Weingart and Lars Guenther have written a short but nevertheless comprehensive stock-taking of science communication and the issue of trust. I fully agree with almost all of their theoretical...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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Peter Weingart and Lars Guenther suggest that the public's trust in science has become endangered due to a new ecology of science communication. An implicit theoretical base of their argument...
DATE: December 1st, 2016
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Trust in science is, to a considerable extent, the outcome of communication. News and online media in particular are important mediators of trust in science. So far, however, conceptual works...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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Science communication, whether internally or to the general public depends on trust, both trust in the source and trust in the medium of communication. With the new 'ecology of communication'...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson makes a bold claim: scientists cannot adequately explain their own work. He attributes all of the issues facing science communication today â false positives, an uninterested public,...
DATE: July 20th, 2016
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In considering the ethos of science, Robert Merton [1973] posited that openness and secrecy reflect opposing values in the accomplishment of science. According to Merton, scientific inquiry required that all...
DATE: July 6th, 2016
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Factors that influence reception and use of information are represented in this koru model of science communication using the metaphor of a growing plant. Identity is central to this model,...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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This study applies social network analysis to explore the role that one science festival has played in building the state's STEM learning ecosystem. It examines the breadth and extent of...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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This paper contains an overview of the programmes currently existing in Latin America to train science communicators. For such purpose, only postgraduate courses held regularly were considered in the study....
DATE: September 16th, 2016
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Of all the online information tools that the public relies on to collect information and share opinions about scientific and environmental issues, Twitter presents a unique venue to assess the...
DATE: August 17th, 2016
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In this article it is investigated the relationship between advertising and sustainability by evaluating the perceptions of employees of advertising agencies in the Pan-Amazon region using pre-defined indicators. Seeking to...
DATE: August 17th, 2016
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This issue of JCOM presents some interesting challenges relating to trust and the media ecology that supports science communication. Weingart and Guenther have organised a set of commentaries considering the...
DATE: September 21st, 2016
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This two-part evaluation consists of a baseline audience study as well as an outcome evaluation of the Full STEAM Ahead Teen Art-Science workshop sponsored jointly by ARTLAB+ of the Hirshhorn...
DATE: June 1st, 2015
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Evaluation of the "Making Sense" Art-Science workshop jointly sponsored by ARTLAB+ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of Natural History Q?rius youth program. Findings reiterate...
DATE: June 1st, 2016
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National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded an Informal Science Education (ISE) grant, since renamed Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) to a group of institutions led by two of the University of...
DATE: October 1st, 2015
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The mixed methods randomized experimental study assessed a model of engagement and education that examined the contribution of SciGirls multimedia to fifth grade girlsâ experience of citizen science. The treatment...
DATE: November 18th, 2016
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Since 2012, three organizations advancing the work of citizen science practitioners have arisen in different regions: The primarily US-based but globally open Citizen Science Association (CSA), the European Citizen Science...
DATE: November 11th, 2016
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How can programs be exciting, innovative, and engaging when providers and youth do not have what they need? How can youth feel valued and respected when they are surrounded by...
DATE: November 21st, 2016
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Out-of-school time (OST) youth programs are inherently difficult to assess. They are often very dynamic: Many youth interact with one another and with staff members in various physical environments. Despite...
DATE: November 21st, 2016
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STEM learning is a process that unfolds through dynamic interactions over time and across settings. Formal education in schools is not the onlyâor necessarily the most significantâcontext for STEM learning....
DATE: November 21st, 2016
