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  • Yilin Wang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(6): 40-46.

    The free opening of science and technology museums has led to a series of changes in visitors structure, service mode and funds deployment of science and technology museums. Based on the current status of temporary exhibitions in science and technology museums, the bottlenecks in the development of temporary exhibitions are clarified. Combining theoretical and practical cases, this paper explored the promotion space of temporary exhibition in terms of theme selection, staff training and financial support in order to explore the temporary exhibition function as an effective supplement to the permanent exhibition and promote the transformation and development of science and technology museum.

  • Yuying Song
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(6): 91-96.

    As a special method of science popularization and a form of image presentation, digital fulldome science film breaks the narrative rules of traditional film and uses unique camera language. Taking “Immersion feeling” as the core feature, the fulldome film is free from the shackles of “Frame”, and it affects the viewer's attention through the movement of “Viewpoint”, thus create a rich sense of presence and empathy. As a result, the digital fulldome film meets new challenges in many aspects such as the rules of narrative, the guiding of the viewers' attention, and the choice of the film subjects.

  • Zhijie Zhang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 79-84.

    Since the Chinese name of science fiction was confirmed, some people have engaged in introspection. In order to distinguish from the concepts of science fiction focusing on fantasy, there are scientific realistic novels, scientific novels, and so on. The author believe that popular science works based on novels can be called popular science novels. Taking Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and Wu Zhihui's Up and Down Ancient and Modern Talks as examples, this paper tries to put a strategy for promoting popular science novels and made some suggestions on prompting them.

  • Yang Liu
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 47-54.

    This paper studied the adjustments of the policy of science popularization based on the background of technological revolution from 1958 to 1961. The author argued that the following elements affected the adjustment of science popularization policy during that period: the general requirement of socialist construction, the technological revolution, the statement of “fully integrate the efforts of improving the standard of technology and popularizing the knowledge”, and the speech of Nie Rongzhen about carrying out the mass line in scientific practice. Hence “walking on two legs” became the important principles guiding popularizing science work over a period of time. With the adjustment of the general government policy, the policy of popularizing science returned to the track of paying attention to both academics and popularization. Review the history of this period has dramatic significance on how to understand the relationship between science popularization and scientific research, and how to formulate science popularization policy to serve the central policy while taking the characteristics of specific discipline into consideration.

  • Yue Pan, Shuxian Jia, Xiangwu Chen, Shiying Zhang, Guoxiang Hao, Qingping Ma, Yongchao Song, Yibo Wu
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 102-107.

    With the development of evidence-based medicine, evidence-based thinking has gradually been applied to more fields. In order to improve the scientific nature of health popularization, this paper proposes the use of evidence-based thinking to create health popularization, and puts forward the following scientific problems of health popularization in the selection, evaluation and application of evidence under the evidence-based perspective: bias in the choice of evidence, the lack of high-confidence-level evidence to support core views, no selection of the latest evidence, the use of controversial content as academic consensus, the selection of expert opinions that are not supported by reliable sources of evidence, the evidence of poorly related to the subject and conclusion of the article, and articles of no matching the needs of the public or health literacy. Therefore, in the creation of health popularization, the author suggested applying evidence-based health popularization, rationally use search terms and databases to collect the latest and effective evidence, evaluate and filtrate the evidence, and finally according to public demand and health literacy to use evidence.

  • Lei Ren, Chao Zhang, Wei He
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 85-91.

    Based on the result of 10th Chinese civic scientific literacy survey in 2018, this paper analyzed Chinese citizens' general attitudes toward science and technology, the views on innovation and the support extent on significant scientific and technological achievements. Under the background of rapid development of economic and society with the in-depth integration of technology in daily life, this paper described Chinese citizens' attitudes and opinions on science and technology, analyzed the characteristics and variation trends of their attitudes, and explored their values to science and technology contained in the attitudes. Furthermore, the article preliminarily proposed the relation between citizens' attitudes to science and technology and construction of science culture in new era, under the background of implementing the strategy of innovation-driven development and the aim of building powerful country in science and technology.

  • Zhaohui Li
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 34-41.

    Infrastructure of Science and Technology Popularization (ISTP) is the fundamental resource for science popularization. It provides strong support and protection for the activities of popularizing scientific knowledge. Since the founding of the new China, the development of its ISTP has roughly gone by four stages, adjustment and start, recovering and developing, speedy construction, and comprehensive upgrading. ISTP will play a more important and crucial role for building China as an innovative country and powerful country with strong science and technology. The modern science and technology museum system, the grassroots system, the interconnection system, the international cooperation system and the long-term mechanism system of science and technology popularization should all be built up and developed collaboratively and operated high-efficiently. All of these systems works for building a modern public science popularization service system, which is omni-directional, fully reconciled, fast responded and more convenient. It is expected to create favorable conditions for the popularization of science and technology in the future.

  • Bing Liu
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 42-46.

    This paper made brief review on some recent important studies about the concepts related to “KEPU” (such as popularization of science, public understanding of science, and science communication), corresponding models and arguments. Some problems in such studies are also discussed.

  • Peifu Zhang, Ke Wang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 66-71.

    This paper selected samples from the Sciencenet Blog, and integratedly analyzed the profile of scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research found that the scientists in the Sciencenet Blog are scientific truth seekers, reflective thinkers of science education, and science culture communicators, or as a common social individual in daily life. Their profile in the Sciencenet Blog is comprehensive, informational rich and full. The construction of the profile of scientists in the Sciencenet Blog is concordant with the blog's characteristics and communication characteristics. This paper also made reflects on the construction of the profile of scientists in the Sciencenet Blog.

  • Jianping Cui
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2019, 14(5): 55-65.

    This paper introduces seven milestones in the history of science popularization of the People's Republic of China: The Common Program raised the idea of popularizing science; China Association for Science and Technology was established and became the main force for popularizing science; National Science Congress proposed to make more efforts on science popularization; The CPC Central Committee issued Several Opinions on Strengthening the Popularization of Science and Technology that became a programmatic document for the popularization of science; The National People's Congress promulgated and implemented the Law of Science Popularization that helps to legalize and institutionalize the work; Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy was introduced and implemented by the State Council with a clear aim to improve Chinese Civic scientific literacy; President Xi emphasized that the science popularization is as important as science and technology innovation on “Three Congress” (namely, the combined congresses of National Science and Technology Congress, Conference of Academicians and 9th National Congress of CAST). These events have greatly influenced the direction of science popularization and promoted its development.