Latest ArticlesThis article aims to focus on the views of science and technology museums and foundations. It attempts to compare the characteristics of organizations, the models of operation, and the advantages between science and technology museums and foundations. Furthermore, this article analyzes the effect that foundations help and work on the sustainable development of science and technology museums.
The publishing of Three-body Problem opened up a brand-new world for Chinese science fiction which had been paralleled to children’s work or popular science literature. However, if it sticks to a certain literary mode, it is obviously not conducive to its development. The author tries to examine how science fiction will develop and integrate with children’s work or popular science literature.
In order to compete with pseudo-science, science itself must be accessible easily. The more science popularization is fun, the more the public would like to accept it. Then how to make science popularization fun? This paper argues four possible ways to do it: trying to be humorous, using metaphors, and discussing pop culture or hot issues. There’ re several case studies in this paper, such as Association of Science Squirrels, New people Café Scientifique, Fame lab, Ig Nobel Prizes, Dance Your Ph.D., The Grand Dseign, The Big Bang Theory, and so on. Science communicators in China are working hard on keeping pace with the times, there’s a long way to go though.
New developments of science and technology (S&T) communication and popularization in China in recent years are summarized systematically in this article. Research achievements are also analyzed in terms of science communication ideas, policies, practices, theories, discipline constructions and civic scientific literacy construction. The future development of science popularization undertaking and important issues to be studied in China is also predicted below. The authors believe that a series of important breakthroughs have been made in science popularization research and practice in China in recent years, the science popularization undertaking has entered a whole new stage, important accomplishments have been achieved and better development will be made in science popularization research.
As China advances rapidly towards urbanization, the significance of science popularization in urban community becomes obvious. Based on a nationwide survey and analysis on the needs and satisfaction of the residents in the urban communities, this paper tries to illustrate the citizen’s perception of the contents, channels as well as approaches of the science popularization. The analysis helps to construct an understanding of the priorities and strategies for future engagement in this area, which would be beneficial for the improvement of the urban residents’ scientific literacy.
In cultural anthropology, Clifford Geertz proposes the concept of local knowledge, which emphasizes the kno- wledge of cultural traits form in a particular environment. In the “scientific literacy” concept to understand diversified background, introducing issues of the local knowledge into public scientific literacy survey increasingly becomes the focus of attention. This paper discusses the rationality of local knowledge into scientific literacy survey, and selects the public with local characteristics in the Inner Mongolia, making surveys using national survey questionnaire and local knowledge questionnaire respectively and analysis of the survey results, which provides support for diversified measurement for scientific literacy.
It analyzes the characteristics and the application of correspondence analysis and the data of the Tianjin citizen’s scientific literacy survey 2010, for the purpose of understanding the relationship between education background and having no access to science venues.
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