German and American media experts will discuss about the changing relation between science, politics and society at a conference in New York: Science in Society – Climate Change and Cloning for the Average Joe? New Challenges in Reporting on Science.
From You Tube: Physics of Superheroes, a collection of videos.
Worth reading, from CJR Daily: A Reporting Error Frozen in Time?
Math and science resources for kids in Kidspace
Science in School second issue is online.
The University of Otago announced New Zeland’s First Chair in Science Communication:
A $1.5m donation from the Stuart Residence Halls Council to the University of Otago will be used to establish New Zealand’s first chair in Science Communication. The professor, to be appointed after a world-wide search, will lead an associated Centre for Science Communication.
From Nonoscience: Science Communication and the Role of Science Blogs.
The Association of British Science Writers has now an unofficial blog.
A must read, from Vincent Kiernan, in Inside HigherEd: The Embargo Should Go. By the way, Kiernan has just published his new book Embargoed Science.
Here are some interesting charts: Scientific communication and scientific communication 2.0.
From the August issue of New Media and Society: Web-science communication in the age of globalization.
Collaborative weblog
"This practice [the embargo system] also ensures that the public gets a 'voilà' view of science. They will see the approved final product, not the trial-and-error experimenting, debating, and groping that make up the scientific process. In their concern to protect people from inaccuracies, scientists mislead them much more seriously bout the science of the scientific process. Also, by stripping science of its natural human interest, they leave it for reporters to add artificial drama. In short, scientists contribute to the very sensationalism and 'discovery' orientation of the press that they criticize."
GOODELL, R. (1977) The visible scientists. Boston: Little Brown, p.131.
GOODELL, R. (1977) The visible scientists. Boston: Little Brown, p.131.
