Marta M. Kanashiro

02/02/2006
Book Review

Newspaper space for science

Marta M. Kanashiro

In recent years, courses, events and incentive programs for scientific journalism and the divulgation of science have proliferated in Brazil. Part of this context is “Sunday is science day, history of a supplement from the post-war years”, a book published this year that is based on the Master’s...

21/12/2004
Focus

Science and communication in Brazil: evolution, globalization, and contingencies

Rafael Evangelista and Marta M. Kanashiro

The scientific institution in Brazil is marching to a good rhythm. Despite problems in funding (and in the very irregular distribution of such funds), universities and private research centers changed and grew over the last few years. In 1999, Brazil (whose external debt is over 50% of GDP),...

21/12/2004
Focus

Science, Communication and Society in Brazil, the narrative of deficit

Rafael Evangelista and Marta M. Kanashiro

If there is a peculiarity in the way of doing science and in the way of communicating science in Brazil, it is in the use of the idea of "deficit" in political and economic discourses, as well as in the discourses of socio-technical networks. Our proposal here is not to affirm or reject the...

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