Latest ArticlesThe 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.
Science popularization exhibitions are an essential part of spiritual and cultural life of people in present time. Botanic Gardens use rich collections of living plants as exhibition materials to transmit knowledge of plants to the public and carry out environmental education activities, which can help visitors to understand the dependence of man on nature. This paper describes the processes of planning and executing an outstanding science popularization exhibition in botanic gardens and could be of reference value for those undertaking similar projects.
The overflow of mysticism in Russia has some deep social and historical reasons and which generates a wide range of social impact. By analyzing the phenomenon of the mysticism in Russia, this paper concludes that its overflow was mainly due to the fall of reason, the support of government and the boosting of media. The overflow of mysticism had affected the process of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union to some extent, and influenced a generation of young people.
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.
This paper advances the necessity of changing the economic growth pattern by analysis of the drawbacks of the traditional pattern of economic growth to keep up with the times. It illustrates connotative development style that requests for high level of scientific literacy of the general public, and the relationship between enhancing the public science literacy and the economic developing style. The authors also argue that we should capitalize on improving the national scientific literacy in the process of changing the growth pattern to strengthen the innovative capacity and momentum of development, and spread them nationwide. It is also necessary to carry out the scientific outlook on development in order to fulfill sustainable, stable and rapid development of the economic society.
With focus on the measurement of public scientific literacy, the structure of Miller's system has developed from original three-dimension to two-dimension in practice and even to single dimension of scientific knowledge, which reflected the idea of Miller's system, the traditional scientific concept and “public deficit” on public understanding of science.
From the view of the “last mile”—— which means to change the traditional view of up-side-down to the view of bottom-up, this paper discusses the content construction of science popularization work in community of Beijing. First, the paper characterizes about several aspects of content construction of science popularization work in community which include basic content structure, content change rate, content resource and people working for content in the community. Second, the paper analyses the problems existing in the content construction of science popularization work in community, which shows the neglect, misunderstanding, shortage of information, internet effect, and staying away from the daily life of citizens are the main reasons. Third, the paper gives some concrete suggestions for the future content construction of science popularization work in community, such as the orientation of content construction in science popularization work, providing easy access to information as subscribing newspapers for every community, providing varied channels and methods, reusing and exploiting the content by taking advantage of recorder, video and internet, setting up mechanism of content sharing and communication between different communities, paying more attention to the needs and expectations of the citizens and inviting them in the evaluation of the content construction of science popularization work in community.
Scientific researchers' blogs don't have obligation to the dissemination of sciences. Nevertheless, we can read lots of contents about sciences in their blogs, which serve to take popular science to the public to a certain extent. What kind of scientific information have those blogs conveyed to the public? And what is the role of their blogs in sciences communication? This paper attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the contents of their blogs and studying the typical cases. Scientific researchers' blogs in ScienceNet.cn are taken for examples in the paper.
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