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editorial Where is public communication of science going? -
21/06/2011
We have published this issue of JCOM while the call for papers is open for the twelfth Public Communication of Science and Technology conference. The ...
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editorial The new book -
21/03/2011
The Internet and digital media are changing science books. They change the way readers approach books and change the way books present their contents. ...
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editorial Science journalism to face a demand for renewal -
21/12/2010
A workshop on science journalism organised at SISSA of Trieste, Italy a few weeks ago outlined scenarios that should serve as a source for debate among ...
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editorial Open science, a complex movement -
21/09/2010
Science must be open and accessible, and diffusion of knowledge should not be limited by patents and copyrights. After the Open Science Summit held in ...
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editorial A game of democracy. Science museums for the governance of science and technology -
21/06/2010
Luckily enough, more democracy is always called for. Even in countries that can truly be described as democratic. And democracy (which is a constant ...
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editorial Users and peers. From citizen science to P2P science -
22/03/2010
This introduction presents the essays belonging to the JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science. It also draws a first map of the main ...
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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 ...
