scholarly journals Nanotechnologies and emerging cultural spaces for the public communication of science and technologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Paolo Magaudda
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Multiple Issues

In the last decade, social studies of nanotechnology have been characterized by a specific focus on the role of communication and cultural representations.  Scholars have documented a proliferation of the forms through which this research area has been represented, communicated and debated within different social contexts. This Jcom section concentrates on the proliferation of cultural spaces where nanotechnologies are articulated and shaped in society. The intent is that of showing how these different cultural spaces — with their specific features and implications — raise multiple issues and involve distinct perspectives concerning nanotechnology. More specifically, the articles presented in the section outline and characterize three different cultural spaces where nanotechnologies are communicated: science museums, hackerspaces and the web. The overall section’s argumentation is that the study of the  communication of nanotechnology requires to consider a multiplicity of different cultural spaces and, moreover, that the attention to the differences existing between these spaces is a powerful perspective to explore and make sense of the varieties of ways in which nanotechnologies circulate in society.

scholarly journals Mobile science museums and centres and their history in the public communication of science

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Norberto Rocha ◽  
Martha Marandino
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
The Public ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Exhibitions

In this paper, we identify some milestones in the construction process for mobile science museums and centres in Brazil. As background for presenting the Brazilian context, we initially address the records found on the earliest travelling museum exhibitions and mobile museums in Europe and North America. We then introduce the role of UNESCO in the promotion and implementation of travelling science exhibitions and museums in several countries. Finally, we document important events in the history of mobile science museum and centres in Brazil and outline three general and inter-related challenges currently faced by them.

scholarly journals Penentu Respon Petani Terhadap Budidaya Dan Pemanfaatan Sorgum: Studi Kasus di Desa Kawalelo Kecamatan Demon Pagong Kabupaten Flores Timur, NTT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Mathilda Bura Goran ◽  
Ignatius Sinu ◽  
Marthen R. Pellokila
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Food Commodity

Sorghum is an important alternative food commodity for some rural communities in East Nusa Tenggata (NTT). This research is to find out the determinants of farmers' responses to the cultivation and utilization of sorghum in the research area. This study involved 30 respondents in sorghum cultivation and 30 respondents from non-sorghum cultivation which were found intentionally. Using survey methods to obtain data. Data were analyzed using the logistic regression model. The results of the study found that the factors that significantly influenced the cultivation and utilization of sorghum were non-formal education factors and the number of family dependents. This finding indicates that sorghum is used as an alternative food if staple food is reduced (entering a famine). The public needs to be educated and advocated that sorghum is not only used as an alternative food commodity in case of food shortages, but sorghum has high nutritional value and is easy to cultivate. Government intervention and the role of the community need to be increased in educating and advocating for farmers.

Common Knowledge and Cheap Talk in Democratic Discourse and Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Richard R. W. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Cheap Talk ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Costly Signaling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Key Aspects

This commentary illuminates key aspects of Shiffrin’s view by appeal to concrete examples and notions from game theory. It underscores the role of law as a means for the public communication of moral commitments by invoking the idea of common knowledge. Our commitments must be known to be shared, that knowledge itself must be known to be shared, and so on ad infinitum. This offers a perspective on the importance of common law from a democratic framework: common law can be seen as a mechanism for generating common knowledge about disputes and their resolution. The commentary invokes another game-theoretic notion, that of the contrast between cheap talk and costly signaling, to illuminate Shiffrin’s discussion of constitutional balancing. Where the interests of speaker and addressee are not aligned, cheap talk lacks credibility, and this is something to which courts need to be sensitive in balancing state and constitutional interests.

Public communication and the role of social media in enhancing democratic innovation: the case of the City of Bologna

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Giulia Allegrini ◽  
Stefano Spillare
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Substantial Form ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The City

Social media represents for public administration an important area to experi-ment forms of democratic innovation, however this potentiality is often unex-plored. This article, with a focus on the case of the city of Bologna aims to explore 1) whether and how public communication practices enhanced in local participa-tory processes can support a substantial form of participation; 2) which roles so-cial media specifically play in enhancing a participatory environment; 3) which kind of dynamics of interaction emerge between public administration and citizens and the challenges which need to be addressed by a public communication orient-ed to the public engagement.

scholarly journals International journalism and the emergence of transnational publics: Between cosmopolitan norms, the affirmation of identity and market forces

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Max Hänska
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public

Much has been written about transnational public spheres, though our understanding of their shape and nature remains limited. Drawing on three alternative conceptions of newswork as public communication, this article explores the role of international journalists in shaping transnational publics. Based on a series of original interviews, it asks how journalists are oriented in their newswork (e.g. are they cosmopolitan or parochial in their orientation) and how they ‘imagine’ the public. It finds that interviewees imagine a polycentric transnational public and variously frame their work as giving voice to those affected by an issue (imagining the public as a cosmopolitan community of fate), performing and reaffirming a particular kind of identity and belonging (imagining the public as a nation) or pursuing audiences wherever they may be (imagining the public as the de facto audience).

scholarly journals Game TV Series as a Specific Form of Public Communication

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Andrii Mazepa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Form ◽  
Cultural Media

The purpose of the article is to study the role of television series as a system-forming factor of modern public communication in the field of domestic television space. The relevance of the article is determined by the insufficient knowledge of the structure and content of modern television series, which is the public basis of communication. In the scientific discourse there are no works that make it possible to comprehend the television series as part of the general cultural media space and contribute to the identification of semiotic codes that determine the unity of the sphere of public communication. The article points out that the development of the information and cultural space is becoming a factor of a powerful influence on society, especially young people. The article reveals the basic principles of building a postmodern television space, defines its specificity as an element of cultural policy. In this sense, the thematic content of the television series is based not so much on the foundation of pure artistic creativity as on the information field that the media form. The television series has the ability to blur the line between documentary and artistic reality and brings this communication characteristic to a new level – creating artistically revised reconstructions of real events within the framework of the paradigm “as it really was”. Due to this, the television can have a powerful manipulative potential.

scholarly journals Communication by unvoiced speech: the role of whispering

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmin Cirillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Close Distance ◽  
Distance Signal

Most studies on whispering deal with its production and perception, neglecting its communicative role. I have focused on this, especially some social and psychobiological objectives. I have combined a general inquiry into the use of unvoiced speech with stimulus-response experiments on particular signal properties. (1) Analyses of answers to queries revealed that judgments about whispering depend on the social contexts. In the private domain it plays a clearly positive role, but in the public domain it is more problematical. Two causative factors were identified as relevant: (a) an 'ingroup' function of whispering which could induce negative 'outgroup' effects in co-listeners, and (b) a psychobiological component of whispering which could affect the auditory vigilance of co-listeners who were not addressed personally by the signaling, but often wanted to understand a whispered message. (2) Analyses of experimental data confirmed the relevance of these factors. Additionally, they showed that unvoiced speech has a limited transmission range, and is easily masked by background noise. Taken together, the results suggest that whispering is explained best as a close-distance signal adapted for private use among partners.

The Limits of Tolerance from the Perspective of Their Public Legitimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Plamen Makariev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Minority Policies

The limits of tolerance are discussed in this article with regard to the status of religious, ethnic, and national minorities in liberal-democratic societies. The question that the author is trying to answer is this: how can minority policies be designed in such a way that they provide the due conditions for the reproduction of minority identities over time which, at the same time, do not compromise national integrity. The line of demarcation between these two kinds of policy would also be the limit of tolerance, concerning the role of these identities in society. In the first part of the article a critical analysis is made of the policy of cultural neutrality of the state, based on the differentiation between the approaches to minority issues in the public and in the private life of the citizens. In the second part an alternative possible solution is presented―to draw the limits of tolerance by means of the legitimization of minority policies via public communication which is protected from manipulations by means of the methodology of public deliberation.

Project of the National Film Museum as a Test Space for Advanced Museum Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Jakub Jiřiště
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Open Approach ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Interactive Installations

This text describes the basic conceptual starting points and the results achieved by the student project NaFilM: National Film Museum, which aims to improve the unsatisfactory public presentation of the national film heritage and also make use of the untapped communication potential of film as amedium in an exhibition space. Several approaches, which were presented to the public in the opening Na film! exhibition, were used to show how film as a medium can be used in other ways than as an exhibit or fetishist object. Film can be a means of active learning and the creative development of critical thinking if social contexts are taken into consideration and informal interactive installations are utilized. The role of the NaFilM project within the context of current trends in film education is then an important question, which enables a more open approach to be taken to this type of education - extending beyond the cinema or classroom.

scholarly journals Health Misinformation and the Power of Narrative Messaging in the Public Sphere

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Caulfield ◽  
Alessandro R Marcon ◽  
Blake Murdoch ◽  
Jasmine M Brown ◽  
Sarah Tinker Perrault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Environments ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Science Information

Numerous social, economic and academic pressures can have a negative impact on representations of biomedical research. We review several of the forces playing an increasingly pernicious role in how health and science information is interpreted, shared and used, drawing discussions towards the role of narrative. In turn, we explore how aspects of narrative are used in different social contexts and communication environments, and present creative responses that may help counter the negative trends. As traditional methods of communication have in many ways failed the public, changes in approach are required, including the creative use of narratives.

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