Latest ArticlesThis paper attempts to analyze the main internal and external factors that influence the exhibits innovation in science and technology museums in China. Firstly, it reveals the exhibits characteristics of modern science and technology museums by analyzing the development of the exhibits in science and technology museums in other countries. Meanwhile, it compares the exhibits designing concepts in China with that of international pioneers and finds out the differences between them. Secondly, it also analyses the external factors that restrict innovating exhibits in terms of exhibitions design procedures, institutional arrangements of exhibitions and exhibits bidding and bid, and etc. Finally, it concludes that the main factors which result in the lack of innovative exhibits in science and technology museums in China are exhibits designing concepts and exhibitions designing procedures.
People are used to fast reading nowadays. It has been a trend in science popularization that motivating public’s aspiration to scientific knowledge. ACG is one of some good approaches for science popularization in terms of popularity, accessibility and big coverage of audience. The integration between science popularization and ACG would be a new focus for some related industry development in the era of ubiquitous net and multi-screen.
Concerning major challenges of domestic science museums, this paper illustrates “walk with two legs” as a feasible way of development for science museums. By analyzing the measures and practical effects of Guangdong Science Center under the guidance of “one body with two functions” development mode, it demonstrates that GDSC has elevated the idea of science center. The mode preserved public science educations as the foundation, while fully exert resource effects to energize GDSC for a new scientific development mode of “one body with two functions”.
Beijing University Propaganda and Education Team of HiNutri Health is composed of 33 postgraduate students who major in nutrition and food hygiene. Under the instructions of specialists and professors in the department, services such as public lectures and website propaganda are provided for community residents to spread health concepts and improve public consciousness on nutrition and health by HiNutri Team with the goal of fulfilling their social responsibilities and return the society with knowledge. During the period of April to October 2010, serial activities including nutritional propaganda and education, public health consultation have been hosted for 3 500 participants in 12 communities in Beijing and Taiyuan, which was reported by the mass media. In response to relevant policies, setting up Nutrition Improvement Demonstration Community in Beijing and Union of Nutritional Propaganda and Education of Public Health in medical school throughout the country has been included in the team plan. Fulfilling missions as a nutritionist in the improvement of the physical quality and fitness of the whole population is the common expectation of the HiNutri Team and its members.
Digital science and technology museum is the digital distribution center of science popularization resources with the function of supporting science popularization products exploitation and creation, carrying out science education for the public on the internet. In recent years, digital science and technology museum develops rapidly. Based on the analyses of digital science and technology museum’s characteristics, this paper focuses on discussions of the digital science and technology museum’s current situation and its problems, shows the significance of science popularization methods innovation of Chinese digital science and technology museum. Finally, the measures of innovating digital museum science popularization methods are put forward.
Since socialization is the developing trend of the practical work of science popularization, it is important to make various sectors of society to engage in the undertaking. Beijing Association for Science and Technology has been conducted on researches, building various platforms and working with other sectors of society on the undertaking of science popularization, and all these work have got some achievements. The survey tries to understand the current status of various sectors of society involving in science popularization activities, to explore the ideas and methods to promote various sectors of society participating in science popularization, to put forward some suggestions on policy-making in developing socialization of science popularization.
The era of all-media is coming. This paper reviews the definition and characteristics of all-media and discusses its great power to promote social transformation.
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