Latest ArticlesExperiential science is a kind of popular science activity which is re-experienced by the concept of experience. The main feature of experiential science is the perfect integration of self-perfect participation and the emotional rational knowledge of the audience. There are four dimensions of experiential science, including information, entertainment, sublimation, and the total sense. Experimental science behavioral is influenced by the behavior significantly. And the main mechanisms of experimental science are including consumer attribution, mental accounting, preference reversal, information waterfall, time preferences. We summarized the factors by the behavior model of science experience and give suggestions for future research.
The public openness of scientific research institutions benefits enhancing our science capability, also speeding up technology development. In recent years, Chinese Academy of Sciences uses its own resources to carry out the opening activities, such as “Public Science Day”. This article analysis the problems of these activities from aspects of policy, organizational operation, funding, evaluation and incentive and others, and makes certain proposed solutions to the problems.
As the transmission chain of usual communication mode is too long to form a faster or more effectual feedback, it lacks of the intimacy and achievement of communication, and then makes it difficult to arouse public's interest of learning. The success of the communication mode of Capital Science Lecture owes to its “core power”——live activities with equal communication, and through which the public can tap their own initiative and accept the science during the communication, dialogue and exchange. In the end, this new mode will form a mutually causal relationship: the understanding promotes the acceptance as the acceptance has deepened the understanding to form a good social effect with the peripheral “factors”.
Combined with the practice of the construction of China Digital Science and Technology Museum, this paper discusses the definition of science popularization on the internet as well as its features, characteristics, progress and some common issues, and then suggests that the construction of science popularization on the internet should strengthen the quality control, originality, information update, the awareness of copyright protection, technological innovation and so on.
The participation of science communication of scientist communities plays a crucial role in the advancement of science for publics at large. The state issued a number of policies to encourage scientists to communicate science to citizens. But the opinions of scientists on science communication and their attitudes towards it is still unknown. The author interviewed some 20 local scientists in the past few months. This article is the result of the face-to-face interviews with the Chinese scientists on their opinions on the science communication. It is found the interviewees were not supportive to the possible policies as science communication as a part of the scientific activities, neither did they show interest in beneficial spurs to themselves. The managers of the science institution's attitudes towards science communication placed a pressure on scientists with the tasks of the scientific activities, but they denied the existance of the pressure.
Scientific culture in South Korea, which is equivalent to science popularization in China, has gone through three stages. Based on the discussion of the evolution of the three stages, the author summarizes the characteristics of each stage. All the findings and conclusions might be considered valuable and helpful for the science popularization in China.
Farming and Weaving Pictures illustrated with verse is a traditional series of pictures on agriculture in the history of China. It was used for agricultural technology communication and agricultural civilization communication as well. There appeared a variety of forms when Farming and Weaving Pictures was dispersed among people, and New Year Paintings was one important form among them. Farming and Weaving Pictures conveyed traditional aesthetic view of technology and ideology, suggested the orthodox social value, and maintained traditional society-technology system.
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