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• Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Article

  Conversations between scientists and the public in radio phone-ins: an experimental approach to analyse public perception of science

  by Matteo Merzagora , Sylvie Coyaud

  "Il ciclotrone" is the weekly science programme of "Radio Popolare - Popolare Network". During the last 12 years, once or twice a month listeners have been able to directly ask questions to the guest scientists in the studios, or to express their point of view on some controversial scientific issue. Phone-ins at Radio Popolare are not filtered; regular and occasional listeners are used to communicate with or through the radio, and in doing so they contribute to the sense of spontaneity which characterise the programmes.

  Volume 1 • Issue 01 • 2002

• Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Editorial

  Communicating in the post-academic era of science

  by Pietro Greco

  It is often said that a new era is beginning, one that is founded on knowledge, thus envisaging a new society, founded on information. Meanwhile, technological innovation already characterises our daily lives and our vision of the world: no past generation saw their surroundings change so quickly and deeply as we do.

  Volume 1 • Issue 01 • 2002

• Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Article

  Electrodynamic metaphors: communicating particle physics with Feynman diagrams

  by Massimo Pietroni

  The aim of this project is to communicate the basic laws of particle physics with Feynman diagrams - visual tools which represent elementary particle processes. They were originally developed as a code to be used by physicists and are still used today for calculations and elaborations of theoretical nature. The technical and mathematical rules of Feynman diagrams are obviously the exclusive concern of physicists, but on a pictorial level they can help to popularize many concepts, ranging from matter and the antimatter; the creation, destruction and transformation of particles; the role of "virtual" particles in interactions; the conservation laws, symmetries, etc.

  Volume 1 • Issue 01 • 2002