Latest ArticlesRural broadcasting network “Cun Cun Xiang” is a powerful carrier for public cultural services in rural area and an important approach to conduct rural science popularization. What’s more, its emergency broadcast function makes it irreplaceable in responding to public emergencies. This paper combs the characteristics and situations of emergency science popularization (ESP) in rural area as well as the functions of rural broadcasting network “Cun Cun Xiang”, suggests an optimized ESP route in case of public emergencies based on the crisis life-cycle theory, and makes concrete analysis on its application under COVID-19.
Based on the analysis and investigations on science popularization practices in South Korea, Japan, and Italy (countries which were early affected by COVID-19), this paper gives suggestions on current and future science popularization work for combating COVID-19 in China.
This paper analyzes the science communication practice of scientific journals in the process of combating COVID-19. Based on the characteristics and problems found in the science communication of scientific journals in public emergencies, this paper puts forward four suggestions for scientific journals to improve their efficacy of science communication, that is, to strengthen cooperation with news media, to use preprint platform actively, to establish new mindset, and to make use of new forms.
Public emergencies related to children require emergency science popularization for children. Considering the psychological characteristics and cognitive levels of children aged three to six, picture book is the ideal type of science popularization for them due to its concreteness and vividness. Therefore, efforts should be made on how to create excellent popular science picture books when facing public emergencies. Based on the analysis of classic popular science picture books and books about COVID-19 published so far in China, it could be seen that the creation of popular science picture books for public emergencies should maintain balance among vividness characteristic of excellent picture books, scientific accurateness required by science popularization, and promptness required by emergency state. Finally, pragmatic creation methods are concluded and presented in the paper.
The development of contemporary science and technology has given rise to many social, ethical and legal problems and makes it urgent to strengthen the governance of science and technology. Science and technology governance requires the joint participation of academia, industry, government and the public, which puts forward new requirements for public scientific literacy. It is suggested that the improvement of public scientific literacy would include not only re-understanding the connotation of public scientific literacy, but also enhancing public’s abilities to participate in science and technology governance.
This study analyzed two cases of science news of wide social influence from the perspective of scientific demonstration, and pointed out that there are different problems of scientific argumentation structure in social science reports. The analysis of this paper shows that scientific argumentation, as a tool of reasoning, can help people think rationally about information and improve people’s critical thinking. Moreover, this paper puts forward specific suggestions for different groups, such as the public, mass media, scientists and others so as to enhance the scientific literacy of the nation.
Comparing to knowing-that, knowing-how is a kind of practical ability. The analysis of several cases in COVID-19 outbreak shows that public’s ability of knowing-how has become a bottleneck of science communication. This ability is different from the expertise in science and philosophy of science, but the public can learn well from these fields. It is suggested that to cultivate the knowing-how ability of the public is a radical armor against emergency of scientific affairs.
This paper first analyzes several representative problems in science popularization after the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in China, then gives some reflections with different perspectives on the orientation, subject, media, content and object of emergency science popularization.
In the course of combating novel coronavirus pneumonia, emergency science popularization faces high public demand under complex information dissemination environment. Based on the practice of emergency science popularization during the period, the core characteristics and suitable operation mechanism of emergency science popularization in China are discussed, and the role played by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST, which is considered as the home of scientists and technologists as well as the home of science popularization workers) is analyzed in this paper. In the end, suggestions on improving emergency science popularization system are put forward from different perspectives of mechanism construction, resource integration, and establishment of authoritative communication platforms.
After the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) performs its duty of science popularization, and carries out widely emergency science popularization for the public. This paper combs the emergency science communication system of CAST, and finds out that authoritative platform can be the main front for emergency science popularization with refuting rumors as the important contents, and authoritative experts have been playing a core role in emergency science popularization. Experiences of 3D science communication mode and organizational advantages of CAST have been summed up and relevant strategies are put forward to further improve the normalization and standardization of emergency science popularization mechanism in CAST.
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