Communicating Science and Technology to Society
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Brief Description
The increasing spread of a public culture that has withdrawn trust on
science and technology is alarming. This phenomenon is largely driven by the building
of belief and public opinions relied on inaccurate information distributed and
amplified by the media. One way of mitigating this trend is to improve science
communication between science and society by initiating dialogues on science,
medicine, and biotechnology.
This project, which is financed by the
Toyota Foundation and the Sumitomo Foundation, will draw a programme to
train both scientists and non-scientists to become science communicators
at public deliberation initiatives. Both desk-top and empirical research
will be conducted in order to accumulate data that may illuminate the present
problems of science communication using genetically modified food as a case.
This project is a comparative study in an international context, in which the
commonality and differences of the problems will be analysed in conjunction with
the country’s particular contexts. It uses Japan and Germany as case study
countries.
It is also a study of highly practical nature in that the
effectiveness of the developed programme will be tested at actual
deliberation initiatives in both countries.
Duration
01.11.2004 - 31.10.2006
Project leader
Mariko Nishizawa, Ph.D.
Supervision
Prof. Ortwin Renn
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