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"Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of training and education. In the past few decades the field has developed and expanded significantly, both in terms of professional practice, and in terms of research and reflection. At the same time, particularly in recent years, interactions between science and society have become a topic of heated public and political debates touching issues like quality and credibility of information, trust in science and scientific actors and institutions and the roles of experts in crises and emergencies. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of this fast-growing and increasingly important area, through examination of research done on the main actors, issues and arenas involved. The third edition of the Handbook brings the reviews up-to-date and deepens the analysis. As well as substantial re-working of many chapters, it includes four new chapters addressing enduring themes (science publics, science-media theories), recent trends (art-science interactions) and new proposed insights on science communication as culture and as "the social conversation around science". New contributors are added to the group of leading scholars in the field featured in the previous editions. The Handbook is a student-friendly resource, but its scope and expert contributions will equally appeal to practitioners and professionals in science communication. Combining the perspectives of different disciplines and of different geographical and cultural contexts, this original text provides an interdisciplinary as well as global approach to public communication of science and technology. It is a valuable resource, notably an indispensable guide to the published work in the field, for students, researchers, educators and professionals in science communication, media and journalism studies, sociology, history of science, and science and technology studies"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: science communication as the social conversation around science / Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench
• Science journalism : prospects in the digital age / Sharon Dunwoody
• Scientists in popular culture : the making of celebrities / Declan Fahy and Bruce Lewenstein
• Science museums and centres : evolution and contemporary trends / Bernard Schiele
• Science and technology in film : themes and representations / David A. Kirby and Ingrid Ockert
• Global spread of science communication : institutions and practices across continents / Brian Trench and Massimiano Bucchi
• Scientists as public experts : expectations and responsibilities / Hans Peter Peters
• Mediatisation of science and the rise of promotional culture / Esa Väliverronen
• Risk, science and public communication : third-order thinking about scientific culture / Alan Irwin
• Environmentalists as science communicators : advocates and critics in an age of climate challenges / Steven Yearley
• Science communication as culture : a framework for analysis / Maja Horst and Sarah R. Davies
• Communicating the social sciences and humanities : challenges and insights for research communication / Angela Cassidy
• Art-science collaborations, complexities and challenges / Megan K. Halpern and Hannah Star Rogers
• Public understanding of science : survey research around the world / Martin W. Bauer and Bankole A. Falade
• Public participation in science and technology : dialogue, disputations and collaborations / Edna F. Einsiedel
• Audiences of science communication between pluralisation, fragmentation and polarisation / Mike S. Schäfer and Julia Metag
• Evaluating science communication : concepts and tools for realistic assessment / Giuseppe Pellegrini.

Contributors:

Bucchi, Massimiano, 1970- , editor

Trench, Brian , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Routledge handbook of public communication of science and technology (Third edition; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 — ISBN 9780367483128; LCCN 2020041777; OCLC Number 1195816901)

Related Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Subjects:

Communication in science — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Technical writing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Communication in science

Technical writing

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Massimiano Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society and Director of Master SCICOMM at the University of Trento, Italy, and has been a visiting professor in Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. Brian Trench is a researcher, trainer and advisor on science communication, formerly a senior lecturer and Head of the School of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed August 27, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Q223 .R68 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781003039242 (electronic book)
1003039243 (electronic book)
9781000348866 (electronic book)
1000348865 (electronic book)
9781000348873 (electronic bk., Mobipocket)
1000348873 (electronic bk., Mobipocket)
9781000348880 (electronic bk., EPUB)
1000348881 (electronic bk., EPUB)
9780367483128 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780367702946 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020041778

OCLC Numbers:

1195819349