scholarly journals Perceptions, relationships, expectations, and challenges: Views of communication and research for scientific dissemination in Brazilian Federal Institutes

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258492
Author(s):  
Tássia Galvão ◽  
Priscilla Rayanne e Silva Noll ◽  
Matias Noll
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Communication Plan ◽  
Mixed Study ◽  
Communication Policies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Relationship ◽  
Brazilian Science ◽  
Education In Brazil

Communicating Brazilian science still seems to be a challenge for journalists and researchers of public institutions of education and science. In this sense, this research aims to identify and analyze scientists’ perceptions regarding the work of journalists, the relationship between these groups, the expectations, and the challenges of science communication in two Federal Institutes of Education in Brazil. We conducted a mixed study in the qualitative stage with the participation of 30 interviewees, and in the quantitative stage, journalists and researchers answered a questionnaire (n = 242). Our results indicated that the work of science communication is not carried out properly in both Institutes and that there is a lack of articulated work among both journalists, communicators, and researchers. The relationship between these groups needs to be built jointly. In this respect, the biggest challenges are to institutionalize science communication, establish a science communication plan, and overcome internal relationship barriers. Our results may underpin science communication policies and policies for scientific dissemination both institutional or even national levels.

American Scientists’ Willingness to Use Different Communication Tactics

2021 ◽  
pp. 107554702110111
Author(s):  
John C. Besley ◽  
Todd P. Newman ◽  
Anthony Dudo ◽  
Leigh Anne Tiffany
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Careful Choice ◽  
American Research ◽  
Willingness To Use ◽  
The Relationship

The careful choice of tactics—such as specific messages, styles, channels, or sources—is how strategic science communicators ensure that the time and money going into communication results in intended changes to chosen audiences’ beliefs, feelings, and frames, as well as associated behaviors. Using a sample of scientists from American research universities ( N = 516), we assess scientists’ willingness to use 11 different communication tactics and the relationship between these tactics and potential predictors. We find that scientists are open to a range of communication tactics. Practical and theoretical implications for science communication are discussed.

Science communication in the international auxiliary language Esperanto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïc Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Science Outreach ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Country

<p>First published in 1887 by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, Esperanto is the most successful constructed language, with speakers all around the globe and even native speakers.</p> <p>The relationship between Esperanto and science starts very early: the scientific journal <em>Internacia Scienca Revuo</em> was created in 1904 and the International Esperantist Science Association (ISAE) was founded in 1907 (Wera Blanke, <em>Scienca Revuo</em> 206, 2006). Many publications and books about scientific topics have since been written or translated in Esperanto. </p> <p>Esperanto has initially been envisioned as a lingua franca to be used in international communication, both in general and for scientific purposes. While English has since taken this role, there is still a desire to maintain and develop the scientific culture and the related terminology in Esperanto. Science outreach is one way to achieve this goal, and new projects have appeared in the last few years.</p> <p>Esperanto represents an interesting challenge for outreach : being a more neutral language, not related to a specific country or ethnic group, the community of speakers (albeit small) is by essence more international and more diverse than in national languages. This is an opportunity, but also comes with some difficulties.</p> <p>In this work, I’ll discuss the advantages and obstacles of communicating science in Esperanto. I’ll present various projects of science communication in Esperanto, with a focus on my personal experience with my YouTube channel <em>D-ro Loĉjo</em>, where I do videos about science and in particular about planetary science.</p>

From the neoliberal to the Visegrad cultural policy?

Maska ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (201-202) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
Kaja Kraner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Relationship

Based on an overview of the key features of neoliberal cultural policy, this contribution focuses on the question of whether it is possible to detect the emergence of a new cultural-political paradigm in Slovenia from March 2020 onwards. I am particularly interested in the relationship between the expert commissions and the representatives of the Ministry of Culture or the Minister, and at the same time in the rotation of staff in key public institutions and their legitimation. As I demonstrate, it would be difficult to speak of a radically new cultural-political paradigm in the last year, but rather of the return of an aestheticist and socially indeterminate conception of art.

Deliberation and Justice

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Stefan Rummens
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Relationship

Discussions of the relationship between justice and democracy are generally premised on the assumption that they are two different things, only contingently and externally related. As a result, genuine conflicts seem possible whereby we are forced to decide whether democracy should trump justice or whether justice has priority over democracy. By focusing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Rainer Forst, this chapter aims to show that deliberative democracy can provide a constructivist conception of justice which challenges this premise by explaining the internal relationship between justice and democracy. There is no justice without democracy in the sense that only citizens can democratically determine the specific content of justice. At the same time, there is also no democracy without justice in the sense that democratic outcomes are legitimate only to the extent that they can be understood as proper elaborations of the substantive but abstract ideal of justice-as-impartiality.

scholarly journals The university-industry relationship under diferent approaches: the entrepreneurial university to academic capitalism

Educação ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti ◽  
Milena Pavan Serafim
Keyword(s):  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Industry Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
University Industry

The economic and political changes in the world, from the 1970s, changed the political education of the Public Institutions of Higher Education in the world. The direction of these changes was clear: the university approachedthe market and the company and created interaction mechanisms that did not exist. The article therefore reviews the academic literature that interprets the relationship between university and market/company from two perspectives: approaches that positively position of interactions, exposing their motivations, interests and forms of interaction, especially the notions on Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurial University; approaches that observe this interaction critically and reflectively, exposing the problems of interaction, its negative aspects and the reflection of the true role of the public university from the perspective of Academic Capitalism.

scholarly journals Brazilian science communication research: national and international contributions

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (2 suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 2523-2542 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERMANA BARATA ◽  
GRAÇA CALDAS ◽  
TOSS GASCOIGNE
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Brazilian Science

scholarly journals Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Slater ◽  
Joanna K. Huxster ◽  
Emily Scholfield
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Consensus ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
The Relationship

Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. One strategy for dealing with this shortcoming has been to focus on the existence of the scientific consensus. Recent science communication research has added support to this general idea, though the interpretation of these studies and their generalizability remains a matter of contention. In this paper, we describe results of a large qualitative interview study on different models of scientific consensus and the relationship between such models and trust of science, finding that familiarity with scientific consensus is rarer than might be expected. These results suggest that consensus messaging strategies may not be effective.

scholarly journals Socio-economic viability of public management in the context of European integration processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (35) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Irina KOSACH ◽  
Anastasiia DUKA ◽  
Grygoriy STARCHENKO ◽  
Olena MYHAYLOVSKA ◽  
Artur ZHAVORONOK
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Relationship

The European Union forms new requirements for the efficiency of public institutions and the gradual transformation of public management. The relationship between the viability of public management to solve internal problems and the dynamics of socio-economic development is obvious. So, the evaluation of the viability of public institutions’ actions related to the socio-economic processes in any country has theoretical and practical significance. The purpose of our study is to assess the socio-economic viability of public management in the context of European integration processes. Within the article, a comprehensive study of the public management viability in EU countries is presented. The specificity of the study is to assess the socio-economic viability of public management on the basis of economic and social indicators of EU countries. According to the overview of scientific works it is a need to use a comprehensive indicator of public management viability evaluation. So, the considerable attention is paid to the deepening of methodical aspects of public management effectiveness on the basis of multicriteria methods. The result of the study is the calculation of the Socio-Economic Viability Index of Public Management. The obtained results prove the relationship between the SocioEconomic Viability Index of Public Management and the progress of economic reforms in the EU, with the possibility of appropriate conclusions for countries to identify strengths and weaknesses, justify priorities and means to achieve them in the context of European integration. These conclusions can be used as a starting point to assess the relationship between the level of development of the European country and the quality of its public management. The study confirmed the thesis on the correlation between the SocioEconomic Viability Index of Public Management and Happy Planet Index, The Global Competitiveness Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Fragile States Index and сonfirm the possibility of using this indicator to assess public management quality in EU countries.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORRUPTION, SHADOW ECONOMY AND HAPPINESS. SURVEY ON ROMANIA

2021 ◽  
Vol IV(1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Violeta Achim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Average Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper we address the relationship between happiness and acts of corruption and shadow economy in Romania. From our survey conducted on a sample of 101 respondents from Romania (on March 2020), we find that Romanian people do not link happiness to material issues in particular, but rather they see it as a consequence of having families, professional and spiritual fulfillment, while money and property are last in this ranking. The average income that would make the respondents happy is on average of 5,223 lei (about 1,100 Euro) per month, an amount that they consider necessary to cover the basic needs that influence their development. Our findings reveal that the most corruption practices encountered in the public institutions refer to receiving money and gifts for services to which people are entitled followed by receiving money and gifts to favor someone. However, corruption and shadow economy are not perceived as being very relevant in fully influencing the level of happiness they perceive.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIENTATION, COMMITMENT AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF KAMPALA CITY COUNCIL AUTHORITY (KCCA), UGANDA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-188
Author(s):  
Hasanati Nabayinda ◽  
Musa Matovu
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Kampala City ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The study intended to analyze the relationship between psychological orientation, commitment and employee performance among staff in public institutions: A case study of Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA). The study tested three hypotheses; (i) there is no relationship between psychological orientation and employee commitment in KCCA; (ii) there is no relationship between commitment and employee performance in KCCA; and (iii) there is no relationship between orientation and employee performance in KCCA. A correlational research design was employed to test the relationship between the variables under study. A closed ended questionnaire was adopted to collect data for this study. Results: From the results obtained it was observed that there is a significant positive relationship between psychological orientation and commitment, r = .668, p = .015, N = 213; statistically significant positive relationship between commitment and employee performance, r = .419, p = .041, N = 213; and statistically significant positive relationship between psychological orientation and employee performance among the staff in KCCA, r = .789, p = .000; N= 213. Recommendations: The study recommends that KCCA put more efforts and resources into psychological orientation because it highly predicts employee performance than any other variable studied. It was also noted that all the variables under study were related to one another, meaning that they have statistical importance, and can be considered when improving performance of the employees at KCCA.

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