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E-book Communicating Science : A Global Perspective
This book is a comprehensive attempt to chart the history of science communication as it developed in the modern era. It tells the story from the perspective of researchers and practitioners in the field, collecting accounts of how modern science communication has developed internationally. The book contains 40 chapters: two introductory chapters, 36 chapters focusing on a single country,1 one covering the three Scandinavian countries, and one describing the communication of health issues in a region of Africa. It involves 108 authors. The results are astounding, a unique dataset to be explored and a rich cornucopia of information.This raises a number of questions: What knowledge can we extract from the data and how can this knowledge be shared? What are the theoretical models (either explicit or implicit) to which authors refer? What approaches have worked best, and in which context, and why? What lessons can be learned from all the experiences the chapters recount? What can we learn from the interaction between scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge or local knowledge systems; and how can we engage people more directly with science or encourage them to participate in science? What are the best ways to counter irrational beliefs based on religion, superstition, ideology, pseudoscience or anti-science?
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