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reviewA reference for science communication
Marina Ramalho e Silva
21/09/2011

S. Hornig Priest (ed.), Enciclopedia of Sicence and Technology Communitaction, Sage Publications Inc. (2010)

reviewWhen boffins go POP: Eduard Kaeser expects that the bubble of spectacular science may burst
Joachim Allgaier
21/12/2010

E. Kaeser, Pop Science: Essays zur Wissenschaftskultur, Schwabe reflexe (2009)

reviewThe unsustainable Makers
Adam Arvidsson
22/03/2010

C. Doctorow, The Makers, Tor books (2009)

reviewToo much power to the networks
Alessandro Delfanti
30/10/2009

Manuel Castells, Communication power, Oxford University Press (2009)

reviewLearning science in informal environments: people, places and pursuits. A review by the US National Science Council
Paola Rodari
21/09/2009

P. Bell, B. Lewenstein, A.W. Shouse and M.A. Feder (eds.), Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, The National Academy Press (2009)

reviewThe "book" medium and scientific editorial communication: prospects and ongoing changes
Laura Massoli
21/09/2009

G. Vitiello, Il libro contemporaneo, Editrice Bibliografica, Milano (2009)

reviewThe challenges of communicating climate change
Emiliano Feresin
19/06/2009
A. Carvalho, Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho (2008)
reviewScientists' virtues matter. More than ever
Alessandro Delfanti
20/03/2009

Steven Shapin, The scientific life. A moral history of a late modern vocation, The University of Chicago Press (2008).

reviewScience on air: a journey through early science programmes in US radio
Matteo Merzagora
20/03/2009

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Science on the air, The University of Chicago Press (2008).

reviewHow-to establish PCST. Two handbooks on science communication
Alessandro Delfanti
19/12/2008

M. Bucchi and B. Trench (eds.), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, Routledge (2008).
D. Cheng, M. Claessens, T. Gascoigne, J. Metcalfe, B. Schiele and S. Shi (eds.), Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models, new practices, Springer (2008).

reviewEducation and science museums. Reflections in Italy and on Italy
Paola Rodari
19/09/2008

The educational function of science museums was born with the first naturalistic collections ever, flourished in 16th-century Italy. The pedagogic thought ...

reviewIt's science after all, Homer!
Daniele Gouthier
21/12/2007

Within just a few months, new releases in the world of publishing have seen two books dealing with science and The Simpsons, one published in the US and the ...

reviewScience and society of knowledge
Pietro Greco
20/09/2007

Probably among the first to deal with it, nearly sixty years ago, Norbert Wiener, the founding father of cybernetics (The human use of human beings. ...

reviewHistory, science and society. Research on science in Italy in the modern and contemporary world
Francesca Riccioni
21/06/2007

The digitalization process of historical archives, which has been taking place over the past few years, shows that the study of history of science is ...

reviewJaap Willems and Winfried Goepfert (eds.), Science and the power of TV, VU University press and Da Vinci Institute, Amsterdam, 2006
Matteo Merzagora
21/03/2007

We live in a period where new media develops at amazing speed: the case of Youtube, becoming in few months one of the most visited website in the world, or ...

reviewScience, Technology, and the public in the European Periphery
Agustí Nieto-Galan, Faidra Papanelopoulou
02/02/2006

From 1 to 3 June 2006, the 5th STEP Meeting devoted to the “Popularisation of Science and Technology in the European Periphery” was held in the city of ...

reviewNewspaper space for science
Marta M. Kanashiro
02/02/2006

In recent years, courses, events and incentive programs for scientific journalism and the divulgation of science have proliferated in Brazil. Part of this ...

reviewOpposing the “lessons of things”, for children and adults
Flavia Natércia da Silva Medeiros
21/12/2005

A review of two books recently published by Vieira & Lent, by the Casa da Ciência (House of Science) and by the Oswaldo Cruz Museu da Vida (Life ...

review"Oxigene" of Carl Djerassi, Roald Hoffmann
Silvana Barbacci
15/12/2005

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reviewScience and theater: debate and historical reconstruction
Silvana Barbacci
15/12/2005

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