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In a meta-analysis carried out in 2002, the two main associations of science centres and museums (ASTC, mainly US-centered, and ECSITE, mainly European) gathered all studies analysing the impact of...
DATE: June 21st, 2007
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Since the first pioneering balloon flight undertaken in France in 1783, aerial ascents became an ordinary show for the citizens of the great European cities until the end of the...
DATE: June 21st, 2007
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What professional future awaits those who have attended a school in science communication? This has become an ever more urgent question, when you consider the proliferation of Masters and post-graduate...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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Scientific publishing, here to be considered in a broader sense, as publishing of both specialised scientific journals and science popularisation works addressed to a wider audience, has been sailing for...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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Why should we care about science books? After all, we live in a "new media" world where students, researchers, and the public use the World Wide Web for all their...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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The obvious thing to say about popular science publishing in the last twenty years is that there has been a lot of it! That is important in itself. But it...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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In their contributions to this special issue, the British science writer Jon Turney and the American scholar Bruce Lewenstein discuss the validity of the book as a means for science...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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We inhabit an age in which economic progress in the European Union is equalized to more European research and better communication of that European research to the public. In highly...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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This paper summarizes key findings from a web-based questionnaire survey among Danish scientists in the natural sciences and engineering science. In line with the Act on Universities of 2003 enforcing...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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When thinking about this contribution, an homage to John Ziman, one question occurred to me repeatedly: what would John have made of the European Research Council? Here is a newly...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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A physicist. That is what John Ziman was in the beginning. As he tells us in “On being a physicist,” this implies a kind of nationality, that is, a laboriously...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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John Ziman with his old-fashioned ways, was a real British gentleman of the colonies. Born and raised in New Zealand, Ziman belonged to that large group of men and women...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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What pushed His Excellency Enrico Fermi, acclaimed Academician of Italy entitled to a state car and driver, to leave Italy all of a sudden in December 1938 in order to...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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An effective communication of astronomy cannot take place without considering the view the general public has on the universe. Through a number of narrative interviews with non-experts, a research was...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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This article presents some of the challenges faced in developing an interactive exhibit on nanoscience and nanotechnology in Brazil. Presenting a scientific-technological area which is still in formation and which...
DATE: December 21st, 2006
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This paper will outline the very successful initiatives to define common communication strategies amongst the world’s high energy physics laboratories. These initiatives have been extremely successful in changing the communication...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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It’s hard to be a science journalist these days. Still tired because of the “Long night of Science“ (probably the 6th during this summer) he or she is informed about...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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If Europe is to become a knowledge–based economy knowledge must be freely available in Europe. The results of research across Europe can not be left inside laboratories and libraries. It...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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An informal, online survey of 1,059 reporters and public information officers, conducted this year by EurekAlert! (www.eurekalert.org), the science-news Web service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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In last times scientific PR activities are increased by number and quality. Especially in United States and, more recently, in Europe all the most important research institutions and universities have...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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The attacks of September 11 2001 and in particular, the sending of letters containing anthrax spores the following October had a profound effect on society, and at the same time...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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Science information professionals need to make choices through which media they want to communicate with the public. In reaching large audiences outside the domain of formal diffusion of knowledge, the...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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The Royal Society published in late June a report entitled «Science Communication. Survey of factors affecting science communication by scientists and engineers». It is an in-depth survey on the communication...
DATE: September 21st, 2006
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The many facets of fundamentalism. There has been much talk about fundamentalism of late. While most people's thought on the topic go to the 9/11 attacks against the United States,...
DATE: June 21st, 2006
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Organized creationism is not widespread in Italy. It is a rather limited resource politicians and columnists draw upon when wishing to stir up a “debate”. Judging by its results, Italian...
DATE: June 21st, 2006
