Michel Claessens

22/09/2014
Comment

Research institutions: neither doing science communication nor promoting ‘public’ relations

Michel Claessens

In this commentary I explain why research institutions are neither doing science communication nor developing ‘public’ relations in the proper sense. Their activities are rather a mix of different things, serving various purposes and targets. However, dealing with PCST, their main...

21/09/2010
Comment

Is science communication its own field?

Toss Gascoigne, Donghong Cheng, Michel Claessens, Jennifer Metcalfe, Bernard Schiele and Shunke Shi

The present comment examines to what extent science communication has attained the status of an academic discipline and a distinct research field, as opposed to the common view that science communication is merely a sub-discipline of media studies, sociology of science or history of science....

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