Latest ArticlesIn the top 10 Chinese popular science events of 2008, about half have close ties with public life. And the rise of the notion of “the popular science of public event” favors the enhancement of the relativeness, the effectiveness and the cutting-edge of the tradition popular science content, enhances the public's interest in and attention to the science communication and the popularization, impels the public's initiative and enthusiasm in participating the process of popular science, and consolidates science communication's effect. From the angles of “risk society”, the social organic construction of “national innovation system” and the breaking away from the principle of “the secular carelessness” by public event and so on, the analysis is done on the formation mechanism of the popular science of public event. The article also presents some considerations on the influence of the popular science of the public event on the contemporary science communication.
The Royal Society is the biggest organization of sponsoring science in the UK, it is now playing a very important role of the UK's national academy, and a good reputation in the world, which aim to encourage the knowledge innovation and communication. This paper introduces the general situation and communication resources to the Royal Society, public understanding of science, dialogue in science and society, prize for science communication are the most important characteristics. In the final analysis, it provides communication suggestions in order to promote science and culture communication in China.
On the basis of mapping the hot research topics in science communication by means of paper keywords, this article traces the evolution of hot spots in this field. It comes to the conclusion that there are three tendencies in the research of science communication which are described as from “science knowledge” to “strategy of communication”, from “trust in science” to “promote innovation”, from “deficit model” to “contextual model”.
The paper proposes the concept about science popularization from historical perspectives, which defines science popularization as a process that the science plays more and more important role with various forms and causes counteraction in the society. The history of science popularization is a part of cultural history. In China, because the Science began to communicate without the condition of social foundations, this process has the characteristies of government guiding, social elite practicing and top-down flowing.
In 2006, Chinese government issued the “Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens”. Science museums in China need to match this scheme to promote the citizens’ scientific literacy. There are a lot of new ideas in the development of science museums. The paper focuses on how to build science museums in China, to follow the international trend, to promote the citizens’ scientific literacy.
This article examines the concept of science popularization capability, and debates the relationship between science popularization capability and S&T innovation as well as innovative nation construction. Combining the theoretical analysis with the science popularization experience from shanghai, the article puts forward a pentagonal model, which aims at the pervasion of organization system, integration of social resources, leading role of innovation demonstration, influence of social effects, and regulation of popularization efficiency.
Focusing on the controversy raised by Lian Yue's preface to When the Sound of Color Tastes Sweet, the first book of Scientific Squirrels——a well known Chinese Science Communication NGO, this paper exhibits different ideas of science communication in this controversy, and outlines disagreement in understanding of science and science communication behind these different ideas.
This report was released online (http://people-press.org) with the title “Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media”. The research survey was conducted by Pew Research Center collaborating with AAAS. The report reveals the results relating to both scientists and the public's opinions about the expending priority of sciences, the restrictions to scientific researches, the relations between the media and science community, the public understanding of scientific knowledge and the images of the scientists, etc. The data would be much helpful to the Chinese colleagues in science communication and those who are interested in this field.
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