Science Communication in the World

This account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain includes special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universities as well as on measuring the public impact of the culture of science.

This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved in science communication, including researchers, academics, students, journalists, science museum staff, scientists high public profiles, and information officers in scientific institutions.

Abbreviations and Acronyms. - Introduction. - PART 1: National Overviews. - 1. The `Communicative Turn in Contemporary Techno-Science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies. - 2. The Evolution of Science Communication Research on Australia. - 3. The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada. - 4. Science Popularization Studies in China. - 5. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China. - 6. Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark. - 7. Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique. - 8. The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany. - 9. Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead. - 10. Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa. - 11. An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media. - 12. From Science Popularization To Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea. - 13. Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy. - 14. Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain. - PART 2: Horizontal Issues. - 15. Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication. - 16. Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject. - 17. Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press. - 18. Engagement: The Key To the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas. - 19. From Public To Policy. - 20. Science Culture and its Indicators. - Index.