March 30th, 2020 | RESEARCH
How a discipline's history is written shapes its identity. Accordingly, science communicators opposed to cultural exclusion may seek cross-cultural conceptualizations of science communication's past, beyond familiar narratives centred on the recent West. Here I make a case for thinking about science communication history in these broader geotemporal terms. I discuss works by historians and knowledge keepers from the Indigenous Australian Yorta Yorta Nation who describe a geological event their ancestors witnessed 30,000 ybp and communicated about over generations to the present. This is likely one of the oldest examples of science communication, warranting a prominent place in science communication histories.
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Lindy Orthia, Author, Australian National UniversityCitation
Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.22323/2.19020202
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 19
Number: 2
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Access and Inclusion: Ethnic | Racial | Indigenous and Tribal Communities
Audience: General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: General STEM | Geoscience and geography | History | policy | law | Nature of science
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Media and Technology | Public Programs | Websites | Mobile Apps | Online Media