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Post-truth: Has Science Communication Failed (Us Scholars)?
Inspired by our first-day debate here at Bellagio, as to how ‘honest’ today’s “Honest Brokers” (Pielke 2007, @RogerPielkeJr) in institutional communication really are, and preparing for our second-day discussion on the policy-dimenssion of pcst, I would like to point everyone Read More …
How scientific institutions still get engagement wrong: an example
Reading both Rick and Pete’s posts caused me to reflect on some questions that have been troubling me for some months, to do with the political nature of science communication and the incapacity of institutions to deal with this. What Read More …
Research in Science communication in Latin America
RedPOP, the science communication network for Latin America and the Caribbean, and collaborators, carried a study aiming to identify the papers on science communication published by academic journals written by authors in the region and/or about the region. After analyzing Read More …
Recent research reports on science literacy and on the science of science communication
[Warning: This is a long post. Sorry about that.] At least six times in the last two years, the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine (NASEM) has included science communication as a key component of its reports. That Read More …
Key findings from our “world map of science communication research” project
Science communication is growing steadily as a field of research, but institutional collaboration and diversity in the field are still lacking. In particular, Asia, Africa and South America are considerably under-represented in terms of authorship in this field. These are Read More …
“Pro-science” as a protest movement
There’s a very interesting opinion piece in today’s New York Times that — to me — suggests some parallels between where we are trending in the West as a “science protest movement” and where the environmental movement seems to have Read More …
Reflecting on practice (and practitioners) in science communication
I will be chairing a session on science communication practice and would appreciate your help in shaping our discussion. We often hear how important it is to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners, but are we making any real Read More …
Globalisation in Science Communication
Transcultural perspectives have been at the heart of our PCST network for three decades. Due to the more institutionalised and internationalised PCST research activities in Latin America, Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, it is timely to facilitate a strategic discussion Read More …
Deficits in disguise: the science of science communication
I have felt uneasy about the whole science of science communication thing for a while now. Some night thoughts recently helped me formulate why: The science of science communication is just the deficit model in disguise. We all know that Read More …