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The organization and functioning of research have radically changed over the last 10 or 20 years, as a result of a determined political action. The activism of some scientists, during...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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Knowledge is not static or unique. It can be exchanged between activists, academia and policy circles: from science to activism and from activism to science. Existing scientific knowledge is being...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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This commentary explores a traditionally supposed boundary between science and politics, with particular attention to activist scientists who engage in public communication. Work in fields like science and technology studies...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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The validity of citizen science conducted by community activists is often questioned because of the overt values that activists bring to their investigations. But value judgments are a necessary part...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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Science and activism are terms which are usually seen as quite separate. Yet, they are inextricably linked, even more so as techno scientific progress permeates contemporary society. The five commentaries...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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The representation of self and the nature of our identities often converge through technological forms. This study investigates the promotional techniques of seven companies selling DNA portraits, the objective being...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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A survey was conducted during the University of Manchesterâs 2014 âScience Extravaganzaâ, which saw the participation of over 900 Key Stage 3 (ages 11â14) students in a range of interactive...
DATE: May 26th, 2015
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Throughout the second half of the twentieth century a varied collection of pressure mechanisms were deployed from nuclear technology exporting countries â mainly from the US â to obstruct the...
DATE: May 21st, 2015
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Communication of scientific knowledge has been caught up in a pedagogical struggle between science literacy ideologies. The backseat role taken by the teaching of the philosophical and sociological aspects of...
DATE: May 14th, 2015
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Scientistsâ participation in science communication and public engagement activities is considered important and a duty. However, in particular, the science-media relationship has not been studied frequently. In this paper, we...
DATE: May 7th, 2015
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This paper discusses the value and place of evaluation amidst increasing demands for impact. We note that most informal learning institutions do not have the funds, staff or expertise to...
DATE: April 28th, 2015
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This paper discusses the value and place of evaluation amidst increasing demands for impact. We note that most informal learning institutions do not have the funds, staff or expertise to...
DATE: April 28th, 2015
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In this paper, we investigate who are the explainers who work is Brazilian science centres and museums. We used an online survey, which was answered by 370 people from 73...
DATE: April 23rd, 2015
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The 2nd annual conference of the ad hoc group Science Communication was dedicated to research on risk and uncertainty as important challenges for the present practice of science communication. The...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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Taking a wider view, departing from the specific case of the Hamburg exchange between artists and climate scientists, this comment envisages some radical potential for the collaboration of artists and...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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The notion of âartistic researchâ is a buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, scientific and artistic discourses. This text is not trying to add another note to the polyphony of attempts...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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Many climate scientists find themselves confronted with the challenge of purportedly âknowing betterâ â while this is a valid claim with respect to a small segment of reality, namely their...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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To observe art and science in interaction offered a great opportunity for me as cultural anthropologist to learn about the production of climate knowledge. Like ethnographers, artists entered the world...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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âI hope to offer a unique artistic perspective on a topic which is hidden from our everyday viewâ States my application. Will I be able to fulfil this task? Here...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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The visiting artist researcher experiment discussed here brought together visual artists and climate scientists, amongst them my research group which studies storms. The artistsâ stay led to a dialogue between...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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The visiting artist researcher experiment discussed here brought together visual artists and climate scientists, amongst them my research group which studies storms. The artistsâ stay led to a dialogue between...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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This set of comments reports experiences from a recent âscience-meets-artsâ-project in Germany, in which students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) shared day-to-day life in climate research...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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After the first paradigm shift from the deficit model to two-way communication, the field of science communication is in need of a second paradigm shift. This second shift sees communication...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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The literature illustrates how media research on the energy question is characterized by a limited focus on separate energy options, resulting in a lack of research into the diversity of...
DATE: March 31st, 2015
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This paper tries to 1) identify the dominant media frames of science and 2) compare media selection and framing of science-related articles in Croatian daily newspapers during two politically and...
DATE: March 12th, 2015
