Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age: Implications for Public Engagement and Popular Media
How are recent policy changes affecting how scientists engage with the public? How are new technologies influencing how scientists disseminate their work and knowledge? How are new media platforms changing the way the public interact with scientific information?\ Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading science communication scholars. It addresses current theoretical, practical and policy developments in science...
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How are recent policy changes affecting how scientists engage with the public? How are new technologies influencing how scientists disseminate their work and knowledge? How are new media platforms changing the way the public interact with scientific information?Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading science communication scholars. It addresses current theoretical, practical and policy developments in science communication, including recent calls for greater openness and transparency; and engagement and dialogue on the part of professional scientists with members of the public. It provides a timely and wide-ranging review of contemporary issues in science communication, focusing on two broad themes.The first theme critically reviews the recent dialogic turn and ascendant branding of 'public engagement with science'. It addresses contemporary theoretical and conceptual issues facing science communication researchers, and draws on a range of methodological approaches and examples.The second theme, popular media, examines recent trends in the theory and research of these forms of science communication. It includes contemporary accounts of the study of 'traditional' forms of popular media, including television and newspapers, examining how they are produced, represented and consumed. This theme also documents examples where novel forms of popular media are challenging researchers to re-think how they approach these forms of science communication.A companion volume, Practising Science Communication in the Information Age, provides an ideal introduction to anyone wishing to reflect on the practices of contemporary science communication.
Abbreviations and Acronyms ixBiographies of Contributors xIntroduction to the Volume xviSection 1 Engaging with public engagement 11.1 Moving forwards or in circles? Science communication and scientific governance in an age of innovation Alan Irwin 31.2 The new politics of public engagement with science Jack Stilgoe James Wilsdon 181.3 (In)authentic sciences and (im)partial publics: (re)constructing the science outreach and public engagement agenda Richard Holliman Eric Jensen 35Section 2 Researching public engagement 532.1 Investigating science communication to inform science outreach and public engagement Eric Jensen Richard Holliman 552.2 Learning to engage; engaging to learn: the purposes of informal science-public dialogue Sarah Davies 722.3 Engaging with interactive science exhibits: a study of children's activity and the value of experience for communicating science Robin Meisner Jonathan Osborne 86Section 3 Studying science in popular media 1033.1 Science, communication and media Anders Hansen 1053.2 Models of science communication Joan Leach Simeon Yates Eileen Scanlon 128Section 4 Mediating science news 1474.1 Making science newsworthy: exploring the conventions of science journalism Stuart Allan 1494.2 Science reporting in the electronic embrace of the internet Brian Trench 166Section 5 Communicating science in popular media 1815.1 From flow to user flows: understanding 'good science' programming in the UK digital television landscape James Bennett 1835.2 Image-music-text of popular science Felicity Mellor 205Section 6 Examining audiences for popular science 2216.1 Reinterpreting the audiencesfor media messages about science Susanna Hornig Priest 2236.2 Investigating gendered representations of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians on UK children's television Jenni Carr Elizabeth Whitelegg Richard Holliman Eileen Scanlon Barbara Hodgson 2376.3 Interpreting contested science: media influence and scientific citizenship Richard Holliman Eileen Scanlon 254Final Reflections ... 274Index 279
