scholarly journals Science centres and science engagement activities as research facilities: blurring the frontiers between knowledge production and knowledge sharing

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Matteo Merzagora
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Special Places ◽  
Science Centres ◽  
Research Facilities

The future challenges within science communication lie in a 'grey area' where the frontiers between production and sharing of knowledge are blurred. An area in which we can satisfy at the same time and within the same activity the autonomous interests of researchers and those of other stakeholders, including lay publics. Settings are emerging, where we can provide real contribution to scientific research and at the same time facilitate the publics in their process of hacking scientific knowledge to serve autonomously defined and often unpredictable functions. Some are linked to research institutes, others to science centres, others are precisely inbetween. This editorial explores why these special places are needed, and present some case studies, leading to the need of interpreting science culture centres as research facilities.

scholarly journals Knowledge◦Room exploring social justice by going beyond ‘traditional’ spaces and activities of science centres

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. C03
Author(s):  
Hessam Habibi Doroh ◽  
Barbara Streicher
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Science Centres ◽  
Diverse Groups

This article describes an example of science engagement striving for social justice by invigorating neglected spaces. The pop-up science centre “Knowledge◦Room“ in Vienna encourages learning, participation and engagement and provides accessibility to different groups regardless of their background. Based on a case-study of a bottom-up event at the Knowledge◦Room, we show how science communication can create a trust-based connection with disadvantaged groups in society and inspire their curiosity in science. We argue that science communication can be used as a tool for advancing social justice in the wider sense and facilitate encounters between diverse groups within society.

A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: Segregated inclusion on YouTube

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110348
Author(s):  
Kaiping Chen ◽  
June Jeon ◽  
Yanxi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Inclusion Phenomenon ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Digital Knowledge

Diversity in knowledge production is a core challenge facing science communication. Despite extensive works showing how diversity has been undermined in science communication, little is known about to what extent social media augments or hinders diversity for science communication. This article addresses this gap by examining the profile and network diversities of knowledge producers on a popular social media platform—YouTube. We revealed the pattern of the juxtaposition of inclusiveness and segregation in this digital platform, which we define as “segregated inclusion.” We found that diverse profiles are presented in digital knowledge production. However, the network among these knowledge producers reveals the rich-get-richer effect. At the intersection of profile and network diversities, we found a decrease in the overall profile diversity when we moved toward the center of the core producers. This segregated inclusion phenomenon questions how inequalities in science communication are replicated and amplified in relation to digital platforms.

scholarly journals The Swiss Industrial Biocatalysis Consortium (SIBC): Past, Present and Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 342-344
Author(s):  
Steven Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Fine Chemicals ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
History Of

Since its inception in 2004, the Swiss Industrial Biocatalysis Consortium (SIBC) has brought together scientists from the Pharma, Fine Chemicals, Agrochemicals and Flavor and Fragrance Industries with the goal of promoting biocatalysis inside and outside of Switzerland as well as providing mutual benefits in the form of pre-competitive knowledge sharing. One of the 'founding fathers' of the SIBC was of course Oreste Ghisalba, whom we are honoring here in this special edition. The history of the SIBC as well as current activities and future challenges will be presented.

scholarly journals “A matter of time”: Evidence-making temporalities of vaccine development in the COVID-19 media landscape

2021 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2110322
Author(s):  
Mia Harrison ◽  
Kari Lancaster ◽  
Tim Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
News Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Efficacy And Safety ◽  
Calendar Time ◽  
Public Science ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Epistemic Object

This article investigates how evidence of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines is enacted in news media via a focus on the temporality of vaccine development. We argue that time constitutes a crucial object of and mechanism for knowledge production in such media and investigate how time comes to matter in vaccine evidence-making communication practices. In science communication on vaccine development, the vaccine object (along with the practices through which it is produced) undergoes a material-discursive shift from an imagined “rushed” product to being many years in the making and uninhibited by unnecessarily lengthy processes. In both these enactments of vaccine development, time itself is constituted as evidence of vaccine efficacy and safety. This article traces how time (performed as both calendar time and as a series of relational events) is materialized as an affective and epistemic object of evidence within public science communication by analyzing the material-discursive techniques through which temporality is enacted within news media focused on the timeline of COVID-19 vaccine development. We contend that time (as evidence) is remade through these techniques as an ontopolitical concern within the COVID-19 vaccine assemblage. We furthermore argue that science communication itself is an important actor in the hinterland of public health practices with performative effects and vital evidence-making capacities.

scholarly journals Naturvidenskabernes kanonisering. Forskere, erkendelser eller kulturarv

1970 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Centres ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Way

This paper concerns recent official attempts to place science in Denmark within the context of a cultural canon. Based on differentiation between Mode 1 and 2 knowledge production, the paper points out that such attempts are highly contextualised and contingent on their different modes of application. Consequently, they entangle scientific expertise with other social skills and qualifications. Like science museums and science centres, they are a means of dealing with science in the public agora, i.e. the public sphere in which negotiations, mediations, consultations and contestations regarding science increasingly take place. Analysing the ambiguities and uncertainties associated with the recent official placing of science within an overall cultural canon for Denmark, this paper concludes that even though the agora embodies antagonistic forms of interaction, it might also lead the way to producing socially robust knowledge about science.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Co-creation

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Rock ◽  
Mark McGuire ◽  
Alexandra Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Joint Knowledge Production

With its conceptual origins in marketing, design, and education, co-creation also has analogues in the fields of science and museology. Reviewing its development in these different disciplines highlights some common challenges (e.g., power relations) and benefits (e.g., joint knowledge production, critical thinking, and shared investment). Aligning this overview with conceptual models such as Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation and Bakhtin’s carnival theory we aim to further inform the development of co-creation broadly within science communication.

scholarly journals ‘Kexue Wenhua’ in Chinese and ‘Scientific Culture’, ‘Science Culture’, ‘Culture of Science’ and ‘Science as Culture’ in English: The Meanings and the Structure

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Yiming Zhang ◽  
Zengyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Layer Structure ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
Material State ◽  
Culture Of Science ◽  
Community Science

The Chinese phrase kexue wenhua is a combined translation of science (equivalent to kexue) in a narrow sense and culture (equivalent to wenhua) in a narrow sense. In fact, kexue wenhua has multiple meanings (captured in four English phrases: ‘scientific culture’, ‘science culture’, ‘culture of science’ and ‘science as culture’), which confuse Chinese scholars greatly. This paper explores the diverse meanings of kexue wenhua. After tracing the sources of the four English phrases and studying some academic works of Western scholars, we have found that ‘scientific culture’ focuses on science's relationship with the scientific community, science education or science literacy; ‘science culture’ focuses on the establishment and application of the science culture index; the ‘culture of science’ focuses on its relationship with science communication; and ‘science as culture’ focuses on its research approaches and social significance. Based on this analysis, we propose a new four-layer structure for kexue wenhua, which comprises the cultural layers of material state, of system, of behaviour, and of mind. In this structure, material state is the basis, mind is the core, behaviour is the circulatory system, and the system is the framework.

Critical Knowledge Mobilization: Directions for Social Gerontology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amanda Grenier ◽  
Igor Gontcharov ◽  
Karen Kobayashi ◽  
Equity Burke
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACT The concept of knowledge mobilization (KMb) is prominent in governance frameworks of tri-council funding in Canada. Yet there are a number of conceptual and practical challenges when such ideas are proposed for adoption across large multidisciplinary contexts. This research note introduces the concept of critical knowledge mobilization as a way to understand KMb in large multidisciplinary teams and social gerontology. It begins with a high-level sketch of the historic changes in knowledge production and knowledge sharing, followed by a definition of critical knowledge mobilization and examples of historical ideas and everyday tensions in practice. Building on these, we propose the need to advance and shift the culture of KMb, and to embark on engaged research as a means of innovation. We suggest that a reflexive process of critical KMb can facilitate innovation and promote a culture of knowledge mobilization in Canadian social gerontology.

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