Latest ArticlesThe basic purpose of constructing an innovational country is to improve people’s benefit from the development of science and technology. Firstly, this paper discovers the functions of the universities’ Association for Science and Technology in promoting innovation in science popularization. By analyzing the case of Associations for S&T in Chongqing University for many years, some urgent problems have been put forward. Finally, a new viewpoint, that science needs science popularization, meanwhile science popularization must be scientific, has also been brought forward for discussion.
This article studies the mission of China’s science popularization from the historical perspective. Through inspecting the history of science popularization and the background of science and technology, we may know that the science popularization is adapted to the development phase of contemporary science and technology, moreover, it is connected with the destiny of science and technology. In technology times, the new characteristics of science and technology make the science popularization have new changes. After analyzing the background of science, technology and culture in contemporary China, the article proposes the mission of China’s science popularization in technology times.
Hawking Phenomenon, named after Stephen W. Hawking, is a cultural phenomenon of public science. It has become a current focus in the field of research, publication, the public as well as media. Based on the relevant literature and sufficient survey, the authors of this article attempt to analyze causes of Hawking Phenomenon and decipher implicitly cultural contents of public science in Hawking Phenomenon.
Science popularization is related to the overall development of the social economy. So further intensify the popularization of science, enhance the scientific literacy and cultural quality of community residents is a common task of the entire society. Through survey of awareness and satisfaction of scientific activities for community residents, we understand the attitudes and requests of residents for science and find out effective ways which is very necessary to promote the future development of science popularization.
Nowadays, in our country Internet serves mainly the urban inhabitants and has less relation with agriculture, countryside and farmers. The number of Internet penetration ratio in our countryside is only 1/6 of that in the cities, the problem is much more serious in the countryside of west China. Economic condition, educational level and technique barrier bring the obstacles between audiences in the countryside and information concerning farming on the Internet. The development of internet in our western countryside needs a certain transform, that is, Internet should be adapted to the countryside, the cost of using internet ought to be cut down and the method of using it must be much simplified. At present, the most important thing is that measures should be taken to make more farmers get in touch with the information on Internet. To meet the very urgent need of agricultural information, we can combine the actual circumstance of the economy and culture development of different places, and adopt various receiving modes of Internet agriculture information.
Based on qualitative & quantitative research methods, this article attempts to find out the farmers’ preference for TV programs, willingness of and demands for information service, thus, to provide the first-hand data for exploring the role of TV communication in New Rural Construction. The research shows: farmers like watching TV news, TV film and weather forecast best; communicating “cultural information” by TV has a significant influence on the farmers’ ideology change, rural civilization construction, etc. This paper puts forward: although TV is the major channel of acquiring information for farmers, TV isn’t everything, the function of TV program communication in serving rural areas should be envisaged; one-way TV information service mode can’t satisfy the farmers’ scientific technical information demand. The research suggests using the communication advantage of TV itself, bringing the role and orientation of TV information communication into play adequately, for improving rural people’s humanity quality and basic natural scientific literacy.
Having studied and compared the history of development, the function and management, as well as the sustainable development of the museums in China and in UK, the paper finds out the differences and gaps between the two countries’ museums, thus guiding the development of China's museums of science and technology by learning from the successful experiences of the UK museums and drawing lessons from their mistakes.
The permanent exhibitions of Science and Technology Museum are major content of its exhibition and education, they are also the most important style for the public to take the informal science education. Whether the Science and attracts the public or not and if its exhibitions produce good effect on science education will mainly depend on its permanent exhibitions. How do we know that? Evaluation is the right way. We can learn a lot of information through evaluating, which includes: what do the public like? The deficiencies might exist in the exhibitions. If the display is scientific? If the audience content with the environment, and so on. Such information is essential for the manager to improve management level and enhance the effects of science popularization and education. Thus the author explored the evaluation model of permanent exhibitions of STM from different angles and evaluated some STMs in China. This article concerns some aspects of their research.
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