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AbstractA significant amount of science coverage can be found nowadays in the mass media and is the main source of information about science for many. Accordingly, the relation between science and the media has been intensively analyzed within the social scientific community. It is difficult to keep track of this research, however, as a flurry of studies has been published on the issue. This article provides such an overview. First, it lays out the main theoretical models of science communication, that is, the 'public understanding of science' and the 'mediatization' model. Second, it describes existing empirical research. In this section, it demonstrates how science's agenda‐building has improved, how science journalists working routines are described, how different scientific disciplines are presented in the mass media and what effects these media representations (might) have on the audience. Third, the article points out future fields of research.

Science communication aims at the successful sharing and explanation of sciencerelated topics to a wider audience. In order to enhance communication between science and society, a better understanding of citizens' habits and perceptions is needed. Therefore, it is vital to understand how citizens acquire knowledge about science- related issues, how this knowledge affects their beliefs, opinions and perceptions, and what sources of information they choose to learn about science – and how they assess their reliability. This book addresses these questions, based on the analyses of public consultations data from Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain, concerned with the science communication of issues including climate change, vaccines, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Sharing experiences of how to engage citizens in public consultation, it provides insights into the mobilisation of interest in science and offers recommendations on how to improve science communication.

In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity, a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown develops the idea of science as narration, casts various scientific disciplines as literary genres, and argues that expert knowledge of any kind is a form of power. He then explains how a narrative view of science can help integrate science within a democratic civic discourse.Brown shows why social science knowledge is as much a rhetorical enterprise as is the social reality that it describes. He construes laboratory science, physics, ethnography, sociology, philosophy, and astronomy as genres, narratives, and other rhetorical practices, and thereby portrays science as a special kind of narrative discourse that generates theories and shapes their validity and significance. He next focuses on the political dimensions of science, including the politics of psychology in the United States, showing how power and knowledge shape, limit, and infuse each other. Brown argues that this linguistically and socially constructed character of knowledge does not undermine its truth value but rather reaffirms the moral status and political responsibilities of its practitioners. In one important chapter, written with Robert Brulle, he explores the movement for environmental justice in the United States, showing how ordinary people can use science as part of a larger civic narration. Brown concludes by discussing how the rationality of science can be preserved even as it is subsumed within a rational and moral civic discourse

Chapter 1: Introduction: what's so good about science communication? -- Chapter 2: Ethics, values and science -- Chapter 3: The Multiple Ethics of Science -- Chapter 4: (Science) Communication as ethics -- Chapter 5: Kairos -- Chapter 6: Knowing and ignoring: the utility of information -- Chapter 7: Storytelling and selling science -- Chapter 8: Show me the money -- Chapter 9: What are the guiding ethical principles of science communication? -- Chapter 10: Ethical science communication in practice -- Chapter 11: is science communication ethical? a question of justice -- Chapter 12: Conclusion

The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely on scientific publications to advance research but also the general public which demands scientific knowledge for its forthcoming. Major suppliers of scientific knowledge are the researchers themselves, science communicators and science journalists – each of which choose their very own approaches to selection, presentation and communication of science, often depending on the target group. Although different in their goals and approaches, digital media in particular has led to great overlaps which result in interwoven relationships equally affecting both external and internal forms of science communication. This edited book describes, quantifies and critically discusses the interplay between publisher- and journalism-driven science communication and its effect on the scholarly communication system, especially on the measures of impact evaluation. It is of major interest to researchers from science of science, bibliometrics, science communication, and journalism studies. ; The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely on scientific publications to advance research but also the general public which demands scientific knowledge for its forthcoming. Major suppliers of scientific knowledge are the researchers themselves, science communicators and science journalists – each of which choose their very own approaches to selection, presentation and communication of science, often depending on the target group. Although different in their goals and approaches, digital media in particular has led to great overlaps which result in interwoven relationships equally affecting both external and internal forms of science communication. This edited book describes, quantifies and critically discusses the interplay between publisher- and journalism-driven science communication and its effect on the scholarly communication system, especially on the measures of impact evaluation. It is of major interest to researchers from science of science, bibliometrics, science communication, and journalism studies.

Visual Communication is a collection of high quality, accessible papers offering an overview of the different theoretical perspectives and methods of analysis in this subfield of Communication Sciences. No previous volume draws together this range of related research, which is generally found across the fields of semiotics, art history, design and new media theory. The volume is organized into theoriesand methods, and areas of visual analysis

Science Popularisation Policies and Regulations in China -- Science Popularisation Among the Youth -- Science Popularisation among Farmers -- Science Popularisation among the Urban Working Class -- Science Popularisation among Urban Communities -- Science Popularisation among Party Leaders and Civil Servants -- Science Education and Training for Scientific Literacy -- Building Science Popularisation Resource Base -- Science and Technology through Mass Media -- Science Popularisation Infrastructure -- Development of Science Popularisation Workforce -- Science Communication Activities -- Citizens' Scientific Literacy, Monitoring and Assessment -- Implementation of the Outline of National Scheme for Scientific Literacy.

Common sense tells us that verbal communication should be a central concern both for the study of communication and for the study of language. Language is the most pervasive means of communication in human societies, especially if we consider the huge gamut of communication phenomena where spoken and written language combines with other modalities, such as gestures or pictures. Most communication researchers have to deal with issues of language use in their work. Classic methods in communication research - from content analysis to interviews and questionnaires, not to mention the obvious cases of rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis - presuppose the understanding of the meaning of spontaneous or elicited verbal productions. Despite its pervasiveness, verbal communication does not currently define one cohesive and distinct subfield within the communication discipline.The Handbook of Verbal Communication seeks to address this gap. In doing so, it draws not only on the communication discipline, but also on the rich interdisciplinary research on language and communication that developed over the last fifty years as linguistics interacted with the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. The interaction of linguistic research with the social sciences has produced a plethora of approaches to the study of meanings in social context - from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, while cognitive research on verbal communication, carried out in cognitive pragmatics as well as in cognitive linguistics, has offered insights into the interaction between language, inference and persuasion and into cognitive processes such as framing or metaphorical mapping.The Handbook of Verbal Communication vo

La construction, et la reconnaissance du champ de recherche sur la communication est difficile depuis près d'un siècle pour trois raisons. D'abord, il ne résulte pas d'une évolution au sein des disciplines connues depuis longtemps, mais d'une interaction constante entre les dimensions humaine, sociale et technique. Ensuite, parce que la communication comme objet de connaissance est inséparable de la longue marche politique pour l'émancipation et la liberté individuelle et collective. Enfin, pourquoi s'attarder sur la communication humaine, toujours complexe et souvent décevante, alors que les artefacts sont de plus en plus performants et séduisants ? Ce sont ces trois origines du champ de recherche qui contribuent à rendre ce domaine scientifique complexe, et finalement moins légitime que d'autres sciences « plus pures », pour ne pas dire « plus simples ». Cette complexité est une richesse, mais elle est rarement vue de la sorte. Mots-clés : sciences de la communication, incommunication, carré des connaissances, altérité. ; It has not been easy, for nearly a century now, to build up and secure recognition for the research field on communication. There are three reasons for this. First, this particular field is not the result of developments within disciplines that have been well known for a long time, but of the constant interaction between three dimensions, the human, the social and the technical. Secondly, because communication as an object of study is inseparable from the long political march towards emancipation and individual and collective freedom. And finally, why spend so much time on human communication, which is always complex and often disappointing, when we have artefacts that are ever more efficient and attractive? It is this triple origin of our field of scientific research that contributes to its complexity, and ultimately undermines its legitimacy compared to other sciences that are more "pure", or perhaps more "simple". Its complexity is its wealth, but is rarely perceived as such.

Introduction to the Challenges of Comparative Communication Research -- Comparative Communication Research from the Perspective of the Sociology of Science -- Intellectual Challenges of Comparative Communication Research -- Social Challenges of International Collaborative Research -- Systematic Review of the Intellectual Challenges of Comparative Communication Studies -- Qualitative Study of the Social Challenges of International Team Research in Comparative Studies -- Conclusion on the Intellectual and Social Challenges of Comparative Communication Research.