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editorial Control societies and the crisis of science journalism -
30/10/2009
In a brief text written in 1990, Gilles Deleuze took his friend Michel Foucault’s work as a starting point and spoke of new forces at work in ...
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editorial Filling the gap between theory and practice -
21/09/2009
Jcom’s adventure was launched nearly eight years ago, when a group of lecturers and former students of the Master’s degree in Science Communication at ...
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editorial Communication of influenza, influence of communication -
19/06/2009
The recent events related to the spread of the influenza virus A (H1N1) have drawn again the attention of science communication experts to old issues, ...
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editorial Techno-scientific hybrids. Science communication in pursuit of an academic identity -
20/03/2009
A recent article published in Science Communication addresses the training issue in issue in our discipline. Henk Mulder and his colleagues discuss the ...
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editorial Scientists, do it like Al Gore -
19/12/2008
Human health has currently to face a growing series of global issues. From the spread of HIV/AIDS to a fresh outbreak of tuberculosis, increasingly ...
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editorial The better you know, the better you make your choice. The need for a scientific citizenship in the era of knowledge -
19/09/2008
Martin W. Bauer is right, two evolutionary processes are under way. These are quite significant and, in some way, they converge into public science ...
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editorial Cultural determinants in the perception of science -
20/06/2008
Those studying the public understanding of science and risk perception have held it clear for long: the relation between information and judgment ...
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editorial A total society of knowledge -
21/03/2008
The major Lisbon goal is to give Europe back the primacy as a society of knowledge. `Giving back' is a more appropriate term than `giving', as Europe long ...
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editorial A Nobel prize to public science communication -
21/12/2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed the 2007 Nobel Peace Price equally upon the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
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editorial Vatican-branded science communication -
20/09/2007
The summer now gone has reported two episodes we would like to bring to the attention of the JCOM readers. Two minor pieces of news, unlikely to be in the ...
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editorial University in the 21st Century -
21/06/2007
The Scientific Communications Act of 2007 (HR 1453) was introduced by the US House of Representatives on 9th March. The National Science Foundation, an ...
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editorial Patterns for dialogue: under construction -
21/03/2007
NASA has decided to cut by 50% the next two-year budget for the Astrobiology Institute (NAI), and for all of the studies on life in outer space. This ...
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editorial Systematically sceptical -
21/12/2006
One can no longer rely on the presumption that scientists comply with the Mertonian value of disinterest and assume that they always tell the truth when ...
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editorial The world, out there -
21/09/2006
The Royal Society published in late June a report entitled «Science Communication. Survey of factors affecting science communication by scientists and ...
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editorial No reserved communication lanes for high energy -
21/06/2006
The American particle physics community is in jeopardy and may end up drowning in a boundless sea trying to grasp at non-existing funds, dragging US physics ...
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editorial New scandals – time to rethink the rules? -
21/03/2006
The scandal of the “biotechnology evangelist” erupted in Korea at the beginning of the new year: a commission from Seoul National University announced that ...
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editorial Pandemic: how to avoid panic? -
21/12/2005
The tsunami that took place on 26th December 2004 in the Indian Ocean and hurricane Katrina, that last August struck the Mexican Gulf, are two recent ...
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editorial Amphibious Environments in Science Communication -
21/09/2005
The historian Marshall Berman wrote that living in modern times means "to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, ...
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editorial Ratzinger and science (communication) -
21/06/2005
The death of Pope John Paul II, the "Polish pope", in Rome and the subsequent election of Benedict XVI, the "German pope", have been two ...
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editorial The Tsunami challenge -
21/03/2005
Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island ...
