Euroscience is organising a workshop to prepare a new agenda for science communication in Europe, from 8-10 November 2007, in Strasbourg (France).
David Whitehouse writes in yesterday’s Independent about the embargo in science news: Science reporting’s dark secret.
The Guardian and The Observer are discussing over a new report on the MMR/autism scare.
Communicating Risk is a website developed by the European Journalism Centre with the support of the European Commission DG Research.
The winner will be announced in the fall, but you can already vote for your favourites in the Nikon Small World contest.
An interesting piece in Scientific curiosity: Scientific Communications in Web 2.0 Context
BMJ has a fine article on FAFs, that is, Friends of the Avian Flu.
From The Guardian: The ethics of journalism don’t work for science.
Collaborative weblog
"Scientists believe that national visibility through the media is useful for ensuring favourable science policy and the financial support required to sustain costly research facilities. Some use the media to advance an ideological agenda that they believe may have social importance. Whatever their reason, scientists and their institutions are increasingly seeking to define science news and to shape the content and style of science communication."
NELKIN, D. (1996) An uneasy relationship: The tensions between medicine and the media. Lancet 347: 1600-1603.
NELKIN, D. (1996) An uneasy relationship: The tensions between medicine and the media. Lancet 347: 1600-1603.
