Communicating science : professional, popular, literary / Nicholas Russell.
"In recent years governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication. This book critically examines the origin of this drive to improve communication, and discusses why simply improving scientists' communication skills and...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: What this book is about and why you might want to read it
- Prologue: Three orphans share a common paternity : professional science communication, popular journalism and literary fiction are not as separate as they seem
- Spreading the word : problems with publishing professional science
- Walk like an Egyptian : the alien feeling of professional science writing
- The future's bright? : professional science communication in the age of the internet
- Counting the horse's teeth : professional standards in science's barter economy
- Separating the wheat from the chaff : peer review on trial
- The public understanding of science (PUS) movement and its problems
- Public engagement with science and technology (PEST) : good principle, difficult practice
- Citizen scientists? : democratic input into science policy
- Teaching and learning science in school : implications for popular science communication
- What every scientist should know about mass media
- What every scientist should know about journalists
- The influence of new media
- How the media represent science
- How should science journalists behave?
- A terrible storm in Wittenberg : natural knowledge through sorcery and evil
- A terrible storm in the Mediterranean : controlling nature with white magic and religion
- Thieving magpies : the subtle art of false projecting
- Foolish virtuosi : natural philosophy emerges as a distinct discipline but many cannot take it seriously
- Is scientific knowledge 'true' or should it just be 'truthfully' deployed?
- Science and the Gothic : the three big nineteenth century monster stories
- Science fiction : serious literature or low grade entertainment?
- Science in British literary fiction
- Science on stage : the politics and ethics of science in cultural and educational contexts.