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20/07/2017

La Ciencia Recreativa and the popularisation of science in Mexico in the 19th century

Maria Rachel Fróes da Fonseca

In the last decades of the 19th century education played a major role in Mexican society, when efforts were being made to restructure it based on the objective teaching of sciences, which was regar

20/07/2017

Vaccination communication strategies: What have we learned, and lost, in 200 years?

Merryn McKinnon and Lindy Orthia

This study compares Australian government vaccination campaigns from two very different time periods, the early nineteenth century (1803–24) and the early twenty-first (2016).

20/07/2017

Good Nuclear Neighbours: the British electricity industry and the communication of nuclear power to the public, 1950s–1980s

Thomas Lean and Sally Horrocks

Between the 1950s and the 1980s the British nuclear industry engaged with ordinary people in a wide range of ways.

20/07/2017

Toward a history of explanation in science communication: the case of Madame Wu experiment on parity violation

Eugenio Bertozzi

By focusing on a specific episode of 20th Century physics — the discovery of parity violation in 1957 — the paper presents a study of the types of explanations of the crucial experiment as they are

20/07/2017

Popularization through press advertisements: mobile telephony in Spain (1994–1999)

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol and Jordi Ferran Boleda

This paper explores the combined effects of everyday life technological devices and advertisements in constituting an efficient way to scientific popularization.

20/07/2017

Reading dermatology in the Victorian newspaper. The performance of medical vocabulary in The Times correspondence column

Diana Garrisi

This contribution concerns the role of the Victorian newspaper correspondence column in advancing knowledge of dermatology in relation to corporal punishment.

20/07/2017

The communication of psychiatry in Brazilian press (1930–1940)

Carolina Carvalho, Cátia Mathias and Sérgio Marcondes

As a case study, we analyze an article of the psychiatrist Henrique Roxo published in 1942 in two publications directed to different publics.

18/05/2017

Discussing climate change online. Topics and perceptions in online climate change communication in different online public arenas

Ines Lörcher and Monika Taddicken

How users discuss climate change online is one of the crucial questions (science) communication scholars address nowadays.

03/05/2017

Science communication as a field of research: identifying trends, challenges and gaps by analysing research papers

Lars Guenther and Marina Joubert

Research in the field of science communication started emerging about 50 years ago and has since then matured as a field of academic enquiry.

18/04/2017

Building the economic-public relationship: learning from science communication and science studies.

Fabien Medvecky and Vicki Macknight

There is a gap between the discipline of economics and the public it is supposedly about and for.

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