BibliographyType,ISBN,Identifier,Author,Title,Journal,Volume,Number,Month,Pages,Year,Address,Note,URL,Booktitle,Chapter,Edition,Series,Editor,Publisher,ReportType,Howpublished,Institution,Organizations,School,Annote,Custom1,Custom2,Custom3,Custom4,Custom5
10,"","ieKey","von Dijck, José","After the"Two Cultures": Toward a"(Multi)cultural"Practice of Science Communication Jos van Dijck Science Communication","Dec",2003; vol. 25:,,"","pp. 177-190",2003,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","This essay describes the German initiative Science in Dialogue and its projects in the field of (1) informal science education at the interface of universities and schools, (2) science in fiction to reach a wider audience, and (3) public engagement in scientific issues. Listening to the real needs and concerns of the public is a prerequisite for this engagement. Due to the great variety of cultures and languages, a European approach to science communication is a real challenge the recently founded grassroots organization Euro Science has accepted. This essay describes the goals of the first Euro Science Open Forum to be held in Stockholm in August 2004.","","informal_science_education lv_wisskomm practice science_in_fiction theory ","",""
10,"","ieKey","","Vernacular science knowledge: its role in everyday life communication Wolfgang Wagner Public Understanding of Science","Jan", vol. 16:,,"","pp. 7-22",2007,"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","This paper argues that our understanding of how the public understands science is incomplete as long as we do not answer the question of why, under which conditions, and in which form the general public assimilate scientific background knowledge. Everyday life and communication are governed by criteria of social efficiency and evidence. Under the conditions of everyday life, it is sufficient for the lay person to possess and employ metaphoric and iconic representations of scientific facts—called "vernacular science knowledge"—that are wrong in scientific terms, as long as they are able to serve as acceptable and legitimate belief systems in discourses with other lay people. These representations are tools for a purpose that follow local rules of communication. Research within the framework of Social Representation Theory—collective symbolic coping with biotechnology in Europe, lay understanding of sexual conception, as well as traditional versus modern psychiatric knowledge in India—is presented to illustrate.","","lv_wisskomm practice theory vernacular_science ","",""