Welcome to new interactive initiative by me:
There is a multiplicity of audiences represented by scientists, funding organizations, politicians, journalists, NGOs.
There is a multiplicity of reasons for being involved in science communication through education, entertainment, deliberation/dialogue.
There is a multiplicity of voices to assert in terms of lay and expert, experiential and codified as well as different types of intermediaries journalists, teachers, civil society organizations, etc.
The challenge is to require different mechanisms at different times and different training for both providers and users of information, enabling them to choose the most appropriate (set of) means of science communication.
Welcome to the Survey of Science Communication.
You are requested to give your valuable feedback to following queries thus to empower my opinion about how media is contributing to the cause of science communication.
You may email your responses to the ID manrahul@gmail.com
Q. 1) How you will explain emergence of science communication as an ‘indisputable’ form of structural element in scientific knowledge production by involvement of the ignorant people?
2) What is the significance of science communication in the world where scientific research is being transformed from purely academic to industrial and applied use?
3) Which actors do you feel most responsible and efficient for carrying out activities of science communication?
4) Do you agree that science communication is crucial to build public trust in science by allowing scientific research institutions to engage people for better dissemination of information? If yes, How? If no, Why?
5) Do you believe that science communication can be instrumental for developing democratic criticism of developments resulted due to ‘progress in science and technology’? If yes, How? If no, Why?
6) How science communication contributes in inspiring new talent and scholarship in scientific research areas?
7) Which model of science communication do you think most appropriate? a) Deficit Model, b) Interactive model, c) Engagement Model, d) Reflexive Model ? Why?
8) What are the challenges and opportunities ahead of Science Communication?
9) What are the new initiatives you would like to suggest for better organization of science communication?
10) How you see the role of mass media and different technologies in performing science communication?
11) How mass media can contribute more efficiently to the work of science communication in the context of scientific controversies happening time and again?
12) Do you believe science communication is immune from media`s inherent social, political and cultural attributes of expressions?
Thank you.
