Public Agreement Of Science: Books Reviews
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Publishing as well as the Advancement of Science
Michael Rodgers
Imperial College Press, 2014.
Reviewed by: Ullica Segerstrale
Michael Rodgers describes his ‘star scientists’ equally multifarious individuals amongst many levels of intuition who naturally make beautiful writing as well as structure. But beyond them is the intricate world of scientific discipline majority production, which has as well as then far remained opaque to most. Rodgers’ observations of this world as well as its various personalities render delightful reading and, for prospective authors, invaluable advice.
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
Pluto Press, 2013.
Reviewed by: Krishna Ravi Srinivas
This majority is an first-class introduction to biohacking as well as its possible futures Delfanti argues how citizen biological scientific discipline is impacting on life sciences as well as points out the potential of citizen biological scientific discipline to contribute to opened upwards science. His analysis of DIY synthetic biological scientific discipline illustrates how biohackers are innovating inward organizing for scientific discipline as well as inward translating ideas to practice.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases as well as Society
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Reviewed by: Declan Fahy
Peter Washer explains inward this comprehensive majority how a novel branch of medicine - emerging as well as re-emerging infectious diseases (EID) - was formed as well as how its ideas came to hold upwards understood past times policymakers, funders as well as citizens. But overall, the book’s rich synthesis of studies from medicine, sociology as well as psychology makes it an essential reference betoken for scholars examining EID’s history as well as social impacts.
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Sabine Höhler
Pickering & Chatto, 2015
Reviewed by: Jon Turney
The majority is organised around attributes of the Spaceship Earth, a abode for humanity inward an otherwise hostile, lifeless universe as well as a house of confinement, of constrained geospace as well as biospace. Each attribute is unpacked inward an analysis that conjoins scientific discipline as well as engineering studies as well as environmental history. The results are a rich resources for anyone seeking insight into how humans, nature, surroundings as well as planetary existence were configured inward this period.
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Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen as well as Nina Lager Vestberg
Routledge, 2015
Reviewed by: Liisa Antilla Kellems
The contributors investigate where as well as how a multitude of commercial forces wield peachy ability inward our digitally connected world, inside such areas equally media history, social movements, labour, design, art, as well as communication studies. They fence for a to a greater extent than thoughtful media frontier including improved consumer education. By exposing various fabric as well as physical links betwixt our networked society, climate change, as well as the wider ecological crisis of our planet, they promise to heighten ecological ethos as well as inspire an “electronic environmentalism.
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Sir Walter Bodmer, David J. Bennett as well as Richard C. Jennings
Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
The majority is described inward the blurb equally a ‘practical guide’ that aims to ‘provide a one-stop resources roofing scientific discipline communication inward its many unlike forms’. To fulfil this aim, 35 unlike authors contribute 27 chapters, as well as they are separated into 3 sections: (1) What it helps to know beforehand; (2) Policy-makers, the media as well as populace involvement organisations; (3) What yous tin do as well as how to do it. The attain of topics provides insight into areas equally various equally a history of pop science, scientific discipline as well as the media, relations amongst patients. The get-go mitt sense establish inward Successful Science Communication may hold upwards of item run to those entering the field.
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Massimiano Bucchi as well as Brian Trench
Routledge, 2014.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
This instant edition of the Handbook outlines the primary debates inward the dependent area of scientific discipline communication, equally good equally providing a reflective as well as analytic perspective. This rattling informative majority provides an accessible as well as academically rigorous overview of the broad attain as well as contexts inward which scientific discipline communication takes place. The analytical as well as reflective approach establish inward the Routledge Handbook is probable to hold upwards of value to those coming to price amongst the multidisciplinary approach to inquiry inward scientific discipline communication as well as it is specially helpful for agreement the multidisciplinary nature of scientific discipline communication.
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Sarah Perrault
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
Perrault’s example studies are taken from the annual compendia of the best of American scientific discipline writing as well as from a guide for aspiring scientific discipline writers. Her aim is to explore implicit as well as explicit strategies used inward pop scientific discipline writing. The author argues that many of the rhetorical strategies utilised inward pop scientific discipline writing are ultimately self-defeating as well as leaves the populace less able to distinguish scientific discipline from pseudoscience.
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Susanna Hornig Priest
Taylor & Francis, 2012
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
Susanna Hornig Priest’s book is a strong contribution to the patch of scientific communication, sociology of the environment, ethics as well as media studies, superior to most writings on these topics because it provides an overall, trans-disciplinary perspective on risk, keeping inward request heed essential dimensions such equally ethics, governance as well as policies, without overlooking the bare, basic scientific facts. The author aptly demonstrates that adventure related to scientific inquiry remains existent despite its invisibility. She warns that the Internet is far from beingness a valid origin of infinite data as well as reliable warnings equally what tin hold upwards establish easily online is equally good oft the inaccurate, partial betoken of persuasion of the military–industrial complex, biased lobbies or delineate per unit of measurement area groups.
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Damien Smith Pfister
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
The author concentrates on the politics of the blogosphere. Among many observations as well as theoretical insights, he concludes that blogs truly reframe, reinterpret as well as sometimes simplify facts because ‘citizens are involved inward the procedure of rearranging, or remixing, extant symbol fragments’. Nevertheless, despite their uneven, sometimes invalidated as well as oft unreliable contents, blogs almost scientific discipline rest influential as well as move to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than quoted exterior the blogosphere, either past times students or on radio stations.
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Brian G. Southwell
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
Brian Southwell’s majority demonstrates a disparity betwixt what readers authorities annotation inward the tidings as well as what they transfer to others via emails or Twitter. The majority has a focus on data sharing, peer-to-peer forwarding of tidings as well as the circulation of ideas. It documents the ways that data almost wellness as well as scientific discipline spreads amidst people inward unlike media, how it is shared as well as why it is non universally discussed.
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Spaceship world inward the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
Pickering & Chatto, 2015
Reviewed by: Jon Turney
The majority is organised around attributes of the Spaceship Earth, a abode for humanity inward an otherwise hostile, lifeless universe as well as a house of confinement, of constrained geospace as well as biospace. Each attribute is unpacked inward an analysis that conjoins scientific discipline as well as engineering studies as well as environmental history. The results are a rich resources for anyone seeking insight into how humans, nature, surroundings as well as planetary existence were configured inward this period.
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Media as well as the ecological crisis
Routledge, 2015
Reviewed by: Liisa Antilla Kellems
The contributors investigate where as well as how a multitude of commercial forces wield peachy ability inward our digitally connected world, inside such areas equally media history, social movements, labour, design, art, as well as communication studies. They fence for a to a greater extent than thoughtful media frontier including improved consumer education. By exposing various fabric as well as physical links betwixt our networked society, climate change, as well as the wider ecological crisis of our planet, they promise to heighten ecological ethos as well as inspire an “electronic environmentalism.
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Successful Science Communication. Telling It Like It Is
Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
The majority is described inward the blurb equally a ‘practical guide’ that aims to ‘provide a one-stop resources roofing scientific discipline communication inward its many unlike forms’. To fulfil this aim, 35 unlike authors contribute 27 chapters, as well as they are separated into 3 sections: (1) What it helps to know beforehand; (2) Policy-makers, the media as well as populace involvement organisations; (3) What yous tin do as well as how to do it. The attain of topics provides insight into areas equally various equally a history of pop science, scientific discipline as well as the media, relations amongst patients. The get-go mitt sense establish inward Successful Science Communication may hold upwards of item run to those entering the field.
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Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science as well as Technology
Routledge, 2014.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
This instant edition of the Handbook outlines the primary debates inward the dependent area of scientific discipline communication, equally good equally providing a reflective as well as analytic perspective. This rattling informative majority provides an accessible as well as academically rigorous overview of the broad attain as well as contexts inward which scientific discipline communication takes place. The analytical as well as reflective approach establish inward the Routledge Handbook is probable to hold upwards of value to those coming to price amongst the multidisciplinary approach to inquiry inward scientific discipline communication as well as it is specially helpful for agreement the multidisciplinary nature of scientific discipline communication.
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Communicating Popular Science: From Deficit to Democracy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Roberts
Perrault’s example studies are taken from the annual compendia of the best of American scientific discipline writing as well as from a guide for aspiring scientific discipline writers. Her aim is to explore implicit as well as explicit strategies used inward pop scientific discipline writing. The author argues that many of the rhetorical strategies utilised inward pop scientific discipline writing are ultimately self-defeating as well as leaves the populace less able to distinguish scientific discipline from pseudoscience.
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Nanotechnology as well as the Public: Risk Perception as well as Risk Communication
Taylor & Francis, 2012
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
Susanna Hornig Priest’s book is a strong contribution to the patch of scientific communication, sociology of the environment, ethics as well as media studies, superior to most writings on these topics because it provides an overall, trans-disciplinary perspective on risk, keeping inward request heed essential dimensions such equally ethics, governance as well as policies, without overlooking the bare, basic scientific facts. The author aptly demonstrates that adventure related to scientific inquiry remains existent despite its invisibility. She warns that the Internet is far from beingness a valid origin of infinite data as well as reliable warnings equally what tin hold upwards establish easily online is equally good oft the inaccurate, partial betoken of persuasion of the military–industrial complex, biased lobbies or delineate per unit of measurement area groups.
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Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention as well as Deliberation inward the Early Blogosphere
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
The author concentrates on the politics of the blogosphere. Among many observations as well as theoretical insights, he concludes that blogs truly reframe, reinterpret as well as sometimes simplify facts because ‘citizens are involved inward the procedure of rearranging, or remixing, extant symbol fragments’. Nevertheless, despite their uneven, sometimes invalidated as well as oft unreliable contents, blogs almost scientific discipline rest influential as well as move to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than quoted exterior the blogosphere, either past times students or on radio stations.
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Social Networks as well as Popular Understanding of Science as well as Health: Sharing Disparities
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Reviewed by: Yves Laberge
Brian Southwell’s majority demonstrates a disparity betwixt what readers authorities annotation inward the tidings as well as what they transfer to others via emails or Twitter. The majority has a focus on data sharing, peer-to-peer forwarding of tidings as well as the circulation of ideas. It documents the ways that data almost wellness as well as scientific discipline spreads amidst people inward unlike media, how it is shared as well as why it is non universally discussed.
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