Taking people of science communication from the government-affiliated institutions in Beijing as target audience in a survey, this paper explores, through questionnaire, how science communication title attracts and retains science communication talents, and discusses, on this basis, the impact of such title on the construction of science communication personnel. Mapping results show that science communication title is believed as an effective measure to attract and retain science communication talents. Compared with adjusting the existing title system, the introducing of science communication title is viewed as more important, but it differs among respondents of different ages and length of employment.

The paper visualizes and interprets the literature related to science popularization in CNKI from 2010 to 2019, which reveals the hotspots and the evolution trend of science popularization research. The research hotspots and their interrelationships are presented comprehensively and clearly in the usage of CiteSpace and Vosviewer. Specifically, in the past ten years, domestic science popularization research can be divided into two periods: steady development from 2010 to 2015 and comprehensive strategic upgrading from 2016 to 2019. The hotspots of domestic science popularization research have been evolving from the health, traditional media, weather, scientific literacy and natural disasters, to new topics such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuit, information platform construction, science popularization from the perspective of new media, etc., which will become new hotspots in the domestic science popularization studies in the future.

The ability of scientific argumentation has become the essential core ability of modern citizens. The paper aims to illustrate citizens’ understanding of argumentation over controversial scientific issues based on a study of pre-service science teachers by using measuring scale that was created by Martin et al in their study. In particular, it aims to illustrate how these teachers view the quality of arguments related to argumentation in the context of a socio-scientific issue on energy. The results suggest that the level of argumentation about socio-scientific issues of the citizens is relatively low, which mainly reflects their weak awareness of argumentation and incompetence in debating structure. They don’t realize the importance of refutation in an argumentation. There is no significant difference in the argumentation level in gender. In addition, the citizens under study lack sensitivity to socio-scientific issues. On the basis of the study, some suggestions are put forward: Strengthen science essence education in primary and secondary schools to engage students to learn scientific epistemology; attach importance to pre-service teacher’s argumentation ability and cultivate their ability by combining written and oral practices; create a scientific and rational social atmosphere and encourage discussions on socio-scientific issues.

This research conducted a questionnaire survey focusing on the digital media literacy of scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mapping results show that the Internet has become the preferred medium used by Chinese scientists on a daily basis. Scientists are confident in using and identifying network information. However, high-frequency usage does not lead to high degree of trust. Chinese scientists have lower trust in online media than in traditional media. As to communication, Chinese scientists valued peers in science community more than public. This article discusses the causes and countermeasures to the above situation.

In the fights against epidemic diseases in China, epidemiological investigations has play a crucial role for epidemic prevention policies and measures. However, the importance of epidemiological investigation is often ignored by media and the public because its works have done behind the scenes. This paper gives a brief introduction of main contributions in epidemiological investigation during SARS, H1N1 and Covid-19 pandemics in China, as well as the development of onsite teams of epidemiological investigation, in order to make the public understand what epidemiological investigation is and how importance it is and better carry out epidemic prevention and control and related science communication and popularization.

The hands-on inquiry based science learning for primary and middle school students is a kind of science education activity, which is very practical. It’s part of informal science learning and has three attributes including scientific inquiry activity curriculum, science communication and theme tour. Thus hands-on inquiry based science learning tutors should possess competencies in curriculum literacy, science literacy, and professional skills and quality of tour guides.

Informatization in science popularization is an inevitable trend where modern information technology is applied to promote the upgrades of science popularization, which is reflected in the technical level, popular science ideas and behavior changes. This paper explores the motive force and form of social capital in the construction of informatization in science popularization, which can help to construct the path choice in promoting the construction of informatization in science popularization, so as to enhance the efficiency of science and information construction, and provide the relevant policy reference to promote the construction of informatization in science popularization.

Citizen science, which has developed steadily in the last twenty years, involves the general public participating in scientific research and working with scientists or scientific organizations to collect data. Citizen science is an important way of improving public’s scientific literacy. It is closely related to STEM learning by providing students with opportunities of practical learning outside the classroom, and has an impact on participants’ scientific knowledge, practical skills and scientific attitude. The evaluation of citizen science projects show that participants become more scientificly knowledgeable, change their scientific attitude, and grow more interested in science.

Taking the British Russell Group colleges as the survey objects, this paper investigates and analyzes the master’s program of science communication in those universities. Through examination of the major orientation, entrance requirements, core curriculum, teaching methods and assessment methods of the Master of Science Communication in those universities, it is found that the master’s degree program of science communication in British universities has obvious features of natural science background, practice orientation and diversified training methods.

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), based on “Internet + Education”, has gained quite a few worthwhile accumulations after several years of development. How to effectively promote the transformation of these technical achievements and innovate the application mode are the primary problems faced by MOOC in its follow-up developments. This paper summarizes the achievements of science popularization transformation and related operation services of MOOC resources based on the analysis of core characteristics of MOOCs. It is pointed out that some inherent attributes of MOOC are quite consistent with science popularization in certain aspects. The transformation from MOOC to science popularization has innovated MOOC’s application mode, which is of great significance in promoting the application of MOOC and improving the scientific literacy of the whole people as well.