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Dec 09, 2005 Book Review
"The elegant universe" by Brian Greene

by Bruno Arpaia

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Volume 1 • Issue 01 • 2002

Sep 21, 2005 Article
Genetics and biotechnologies in Italian mass media

by Silvio Mini

Several researchers operating in the sociological field have recently theorised that genetics and biotechnologies are at the core of the public perception of science. The present study aims at verifying empirically whether or not this is mirrored in Italian mass media, as well as at analysing the topics most frequently present in Italian newspapers and the economic and editorial reasons behind the results of editorial choices. Besides, it provides statistics about the major Italian newspapers published in the last third of 2002. This period has been chosen because some important news was published in December: it consequently offered the chance to carry out a long-term analysis as well as a study of the most important differences - in content and editorial lay-out - between scientific articles which are published in the appropriate sections inside the newspaper and those which make the front page. Ours are going to be purely quantitative considerations; but, from the point of view of the content, the data are sufficient to identify various narrative currents. These currents could be the object of further research on the frames used to contextualize the news and the reasons (anthropological, socio-cultural and editorial) for the way they are used by editorial staffs.

Volume 4 • Issue 03 • 2005

Sep 21, 2005 Editorial
Amphibious Environments in Science Communication

by Yuri Castelfranchi

The historian Marshall Berman wrote that living in modern times means "to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation [...] and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know".

Volume 4 • Issue 03 • 2005

Sep 21, 2005 Commentary
Scaling up communication of scientific information to rural communities

by Kong Luen Heong and Monina Escalada

A wide gap exists between what scientists and rural farmers know. The rapid advancements in digital technology are likely to widen this gap even further. At the farmers' level, this knowledge gap often translates into poor and inefficient management of resources resulting in reduced profits and environmental pollution. Most modern rice cultivars can easily yield more than 5 tons per hectare when well managed, but millions of farmers often get less than 5 tons using the same production inputs.

Volume 4 • Issue 03 • 2005

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