Exploring Science Communication: A Science and Technology Studies Approach: 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526464403 ISBN 13: 9781526464408

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of case studies, from climate change and public parks to Facebook, museums, and media coverage, it helps you to understand and analyse the complex and diverse ways science and society relate in today’s knowledge intensive environments. Notable features include:

• A focus on showing how to bring academic STS theory into your own science communication research
• Coverage of a range of topics and case studies illustrating different analyses and approaches
• Speaks to disciplines across Media & Communication, Science & Technology Studies, Health Sciences, Environmental Sciences and related areas.

With this book you will learn how science communication can be more than just about disseminating facts to the public, but actually generative, leading to new understanding, research, and practices.

About this title

About the Author

Ulrike Felt is Professor and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies as well as of the research platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice at the University of Vienna, Austria. 

Sarah R. Davis is Professor of Media, Cognition and Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with a research interest in public engagement and public understanding of science. 

From the Back Cover

The communication of scientific research raises big questions about the kind of societies we want to live in. Through a range of case studies, from museums to Facebook to public parks, Exploring Science Communication shows you how to understand and analyse the complex and diverse ways science and society relate in today’s knowledge intensive environments.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526464403
• ISBN 13: 9781526464408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Ulrike Felt, Sarah R. Davies