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article Social network science: pedagogy, dialogue, deliberation -
09/03/2010
The online world constitutes an ever-expanding store and incubator for scientific information. It is also a social space where forms of ...
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article The public production and sharing of medical information. An Australian perspective -
02/03/2010
There is a wealth of medical information now available to the public through various sources that are not necessarily controlled by medical ...
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article Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities -
26/02/2010
Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) are novelty tools that can be used to facilitate broader involvement of citizens in ...
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article Changing the meaning of peer-to-peer? Exploring online comment spaces as sites of negotiated expertise -
22/02/2010
This study examines the nature of peer-to-peer interactions in public online comment spaces. From a theoretical perspective of boundary-work and ...
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article Science on television: how? Like that! -
11/12/2009
This study explores the presence of science programs on the Flemish public broadcaster between 1997 and 2002 in terms of length, science domains, ...
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article Science comics as tools for science education and communication: a brief, exploratory study -
18/11/2009
Comics are a popular art form especially among children and as such provide a potential medium for science education and communication. In an attempt to ...
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article Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics -
30/10/2009
Formative evaluation should play a key role in the development of a science communication project or initiative. Such research is vital to ...
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article Science cafés. Cross-cultural adaptation and educational applications -
30/10/2009
Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech) has been developing a number of methodologies to teach graduate students the theory and practice of science ...
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article Images of women in STEM fields -
21/09/2009
This study investigated how eighth-grade students perceived images of women in STEM and non-STEM careers. Thirty-six images were posted on-line; we ...
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article Getting adolescents to inform themselves about ecogenomics: a Dutch case study -
27/08/2009
Public opinions toward emergent technologies may be highly dependent on the manner in which people are introduced to these technologies for the very first ...
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article Mapping gender differences in understanding about HIV/AIDS -
20/07/2009
The present article investigates public understanding of HIV/AIDS related issues that touch the thought structure of common citizen, among the Indian ...
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article Quality and integrity in scientific writing: prerequisites for quality in science communication -
03/06/2009
Standards and Good Practice guidelines provide explicit criteria for maintaining quality and integrity in science. But research practices are now openly ...
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article Best practice in communications training for public engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics -
18/05/2009
Effective training in key communications skills is critical for successful public engagement. However, what are the secrets to designing and delivering an ...
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article Opening the Test Tube: what do we know about research on science communication and the teaching of microbiology in Brazil? -
30/04/2009
Brazilian research has grown intensely in all areas of microbiology, with the increase in the amount of governmental resources for the sector and the ...
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article Communicative challenges in assessing progress towards environmental quality objectives -
16/04/2009
Assessment of trends in the state of the environment constitutes one important aspect of efforts to achieve environmental sustainability. Assessments are ...
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article The communicative process of weather forecasts issued in the probabilistic form -
20/03/2009
One of the main purposes of weather forecasting is that of protecting weather-sensitive human activities. Forecasts issued in the probabilistic form have ...
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article Using communication research to gather stakeholder preferences to improve groundwater management models: a South Texas case study -
24/02/2009
There is a compelling need to ensure that the points of view and preferences of stakeholders are fully considered and incorporated into natural resources ...
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article Mouse model: what do Japanese life sciences researchers mean by this term? -
26/01/2009
Mouse-related research in the life sciences has expanded remarkably over the last two decades, resulting in growing use of the term “mouse model”. Our ...
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article Popularization of Science in Brazil: getting onto the public agenda, but how? -
19/12/2008
The importance the Brazilian government has given in the last few years to the dissemination of science points out the necessity of a more discerning ...
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article Public participation and rural management of Brazilian waters: an alternative to the deficit model -
19/12/2008
The knowledge deficit model with regard to the public has been severely criticized in the sociology of the public perception of science. However, when ...
