scholarly journals Using a scientific literacy cluster to determine participant attitudes in scientific events in Japan, and potential applications to improving science communication

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shishin Kawamoto ◽  
Minoru Nakayama ◽  
Miki Saijo
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Attitudes Toward Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Communication Events ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Cluster 2

Various science events including Science Cafés have been held in Japan. However, there is the question whether these are events in which all people in society can participate? In particular, methods for checking whether or not the event attracts the participants targeted by the organizers have not yet been well established. In this paper, the authors have designed a simplified questionnaire to identify the participants’ attitudes toward science, technology and society, which can then be grouped into four clusters. When applied to various science cafés, the results revealed that participants consisted of Cluster 1 “Inquisitive  type” and Cluster 2 “Sciencephile” who are interested in science and technology. The cafes studied did not provide sufficient appeal to people of Clusters 3 and  4 who are not interested in science and technology without applying some inventive methods. Our method provides a means of objectivelyevaluating the tendencies of participants in science communication events in order to improve the spread of science communications within society.

scholarly journals Introduction: Talking STS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadhila Mazanderani ◽  
Isabel Fletcher ◽  
Pablo Schyfter
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Talking STS is a collection of interviews and accompanying reflections on the origins, the present and the future of the field referred to as Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society (STS). The volume assembles the thoughts and recollections of some of the leading figures in the making of this field. The occasion for producing the collection has been the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Edinburgh’s Science Studies Unit (SSU). The Unit’s place in the history of STS is consequently a recurring theme of the volume. However, the interviews assembled here have a broader purpose – to present interviewees’ situated and idiosyncratic experiences and perspectives on STS, going beyond the contributions made to it by any one individual, department or institution. Both individually and collectively, these conversations provide autobiographically informed insights on STS. Together with the reflections, they prompt further discussion, reflection and questioning about this constantly evolving field.

A Field of Its Own

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Jasanoff
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Innovative Work

This chapter presents science and technology studies (STS) as a new island in a preexisting disciplinary archipelago. As a field, STS combines two strands of work dealing, respectively, with the nature and practices of science and technology (S&T) and the relationships between science, technology, and society. As such, STS research focuses on distinctive objects of inquiry and employs novel discourses and methods. The field confronts three significant barriers to achieving greater intellectual coherence, and institutional recognition. First, it must persuade skeptical scientists and university administrators of the need for a critical perspective on S&T. Second, it must demonstrate that traditional disciplines do not adequately analyze S&T. Third, it has to overcome STS scholars’ reluctance to create intellectual boundaries and membership criteria that appear to exclude innovative work. A generation of scholars with graduate degrees in STS are helping to meet these challenges.

scholarly journals Neglected spaces in science communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Clare Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Science And Technology

Many of the earliest drivers for improved scientific literacy and understanding were based on the assumption that science and technology is all around us, and yet there are some spaces and communities that are neglected in science communication contexts. In this brief comment, Clare Wilkinson introduces a series of ten commentaries, which further probe neglected spaces in science communication.

scholarly journals Analysis of physics textbook reviewed from the aspects of scientific literacy in the Bandung city

2021 ◽  
Vol 2098 (1) ◽  
pp. 012005
Author(s):  
S Sahriani ◽  
A Samsudin ◽  
P Sinaga
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Science Technology

Abstract The skills that students must possess in 21st century learning are to prepare scientific literacy. This study aims to determine the ability of scientific literacy in the XI grade physics textbook used in Bandung senior high school. This research is a descriptive study that aims to obtain information about developing scientific literacy skills in the three textbooks used. The results showed that the three books did not fully contain the categories of scientific literacy with the average appearance of the categories for the three books of 44% for the knowledge of science, 31% for science as the investigative nature of science, 18% for science as a way of thinking, and 7% for the interaction between science, technology and society. It was concluded that the textbooks used were not optimal in facilitating all aspects of students’ scientific literacy in a balanced manner. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as a basis for designing and developing physics textbooks needed to improve students’ scientific literacy skills.

scholarly journals Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities

10.1068/d243t ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Law ◽  
Annemarie Mol
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Place Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Narrow Networks

This paper explores the spatial characteristics of science and technology. Originally seen as universal, and therefore outside space and place, studies in science, technology, and society (STS) located it first in specific locations—laboratories—and then in narrow networks linking laboratories. This double location implied that science is caught up in and enacts two topological forms— region and network—since objects in networks hold their shape by freezing relations rather than fixing Euclidean coordinates. More recent STS work suggests that science and technology also exist in and help to enact additional spatial forms. Thus some technoscience objects are fluid, holding their form by shifting their relations. And yet others achieve constancy by enacting simultaneous absence and presence, a topological possibility which we call here fire. The paper concludes by arguing that the ‘global’ includes and is enacted in all four of these topological systems.

scholarly journals The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Jasanoff
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

STS has become a discipline in the sense that it offers new ways to read and make sense of the world. It remains an amalgam, however, of two linked yet separate lines of inquiry, both abbreviated as STS. Science and technology studies refers to the investigation of S&T as social institutions; science, technology and society, by contrast, analyzes the external relations of S&T with other institutions, such as law or politics. This essay reflects on the implications of this ambiguity for institutionalizing STS as a field of its own, drawing on the author’s experiences in building STS at two universities.

scholarly journals A critical analysis of information society conceptualizations from an STS point of view

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Aibar
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social

Science and Technology Studies (STS) have developed over the last four decades very rich and deep analysis of the interaction between science, technology and society. This paper uses some STS theoretical and methodological insights and findings to identify persistent misconceptions in the specific literature on ICTs and society. Technological deterministic views, the taken-for-granted image of technological designs, the prospective character of many studies that focus mainly on potential effects, a simplistic view of uses and users, and an uncritical distinction between the technical and the social, are discussed as some of the most remarkable theoretical flaws in the field.

scholarly journals Levantamento de artigos sobre Interação humano-computador em periódicos de ciência, tecnologia e sociedade

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milene Rosa de Almeida Moura ◽  
Luzia Sigoli Fernandes Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology

As tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) estão inseridas em boa parte das atividades diárias das pessoas. A capacidade de o usuário compreender e fazer um bom uso de uma determinada tecnologia é objeto de estudo da Interação Humano-Computador (IHC). Neste artigo, apresentamos teoricamente a IHC e os Estudos Sociais da Ciência e Tecnologia (ESCT) com a finalidade de contextualizar nossa pesquisa, baseada em levantamento bibliográfico sobre a temática IHC nos periódicos Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology and Society; Science, Technology, & Human Values; Science Communication e Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, desde o lançamento de cada periódico até o ano 2016. Como resultado, todos os artigos recuperados abrangem o período de 2003 a 2011, distantes em quase uma década do início das pesquisas relacionando a IHC com o campo Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS).

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