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  • iSWOOP Report 2017
    Date: 12/31/2017
    Resource Category!: Report
    This is the Advisors' Report for 2017 for the iSWOOP (Interpreters and Scientists Working on Our Parks) project. It discusses broad issues across project sites, provides park by park overviews, and highlights results of the research. ... »
  • Science communication as an academic discipline: an Indian perspective
    Date: 12/25/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Scientific ignorance can be a potential obstacle in the journey of India becoming a developed nation and a knowledge economy. Such ignorance can also be the cause of various myths, superstitions and blind faiths which can further hinder the development agenda of any nation. Science Communication can potentially dissipate scientific ignorance in ... »
  • A Design-Based Research Study of Staff-Facilitated Family Learning at Interactive Math Exhibits
    Date: 12/18/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Staff facilitators in museums and science centers are a critical but often overlooked component of the visitor experience. Despite assertions about the important role they play in visitor learning, there continues to be almost no research to understand staff facilitation in these settings or identify effective practices. To address these gaps, we ... »
  • Science communication practices at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is one of the world's single largest employers of science communicators, with over 350,000 students and 40,000 staff. Its science communication activities include five museums (Universum, Museo de la Luz, the Geology Museum, Museo de la Medicina Mexicana and Musem of Geophysics), botanical ... »
  • The “Gateway Belief” illusion: reanalyzing the results of a scientific-consensus messaging study
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This paper analyzes data collected but not reported in the study featured in van der Linden, Leiserowitz, Feinberg, and Maibach [van der Linden et al., 2015]. VLFM report finding that a “scientific consensus” message “increased” experiment subjects' “key beliefs about climate change” and “in turn” their “support for public action” to mitigate it. ... »
  • Gateway illusion or cultural cognition confusion?
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In this paper, we respond to the critiques presented by [Kahan, 2017]. Contrary to claims that the scientific consensus message did not significantly influence the key mediator and outcome variables in our model, we show that the experiment in [van der Linden et al., 2015] did in fact directly influence key beliefs about climate change. We also ... »
  • Considering what works: experiments in science communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This editorial provides an overview of the Journal of Science Communication, volume 16, issue 5. This issue of JCOM explores the question ‘what works in science communication?’ from a variety of angles, as well as focusing on the politically sensitive topic of climate change. In addition, the issue contains a set of commentaries that explore the ... »
  • Introduction to Commentary on Universities and Science Communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This is an introduction to four essays in a Commentary that examine contributions of universities to science communication’s development but also challenges in consolidating those efforts. ... »
  • Universities, science communication and professionalism
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This essay examines several distinct roles universities play in science communication, with particular reference to professionalisation in the field. It identifies the ways in which universities have facilitated, even driven, that continuing process. But it also notes the potential and actual contradictions between some of the roles of ... »
  • Universities as living labs for science communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Science communication research and education programmes worldwide exhibit notable differences as well as similarities. In this essay the authors claim that this diversity is not a problem. They argue that universities can contribute well to the science communication field, theoretically and in practice, if they invest in building collaborations ... »

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