Communicating Science to the Public

Bibliographic Data

ID5163530
AuthorsRoger Silverstone (Brunel University, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume16
Issue1
Pages106-110
Publication date1991-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/016224399101600107
OpenAlexW2005569648
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The projects share, with different degrees of emphasis, four main assumptions, supported by the literature. 1. There is no such thing as the communication of science. Neither science nor the media environment is a unified phenomenon. Scientists disagree; the media present different accounts; receivers of scientific communication interpret each set of them in different ways, which may result in distinct, even disjointed, understandings. 2. There is no such thing as the public. There are many publics for science: the specialist and the lay, the interested and the disinterested, the powerful and the powerless; young and old; male and female. While these publics will share much, they will also understand or misunderstand, remember or forget, in different ways. 3. In the modern communication environment, science cannot claim any privileged status. Science has to compete for attention, from the producers

Mathematics education · Public awareness of science · Science communication · Science education · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Psychology

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