Media coverage of scientific research and discovery, including questions of ownership and control, can promote democratic and ethical accountability. Five simple questions need to be addressed: Who needs it? Who will benefit from it? Who will pay the costs? What happens when it goes wrong? Who will regulate it, how, and on whose behalf? Articles explore science coverage in the media, technological fundamentalism, the relationship between communicating science and participatory education, and between scientific knowledge and empowerment.

Technological fundamentalism in media and culture by Robert Jensen

Challenges in communicating science to Canadians by Stephen J. Ward and Eric Jandciu

Comunicar ciencia en el horizonte de la comunicación educativa by Daniel Prieto Castillo

Periodismo de ciencia por Miguel Ángel de Alba

Information technologies and the life sciences by Pradip N. Thomas

The tyranny of science by Frank Furedi

From a mean world to a world with meaning  by Rose A. Dyson

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Soul searching at the crossroads of journalism education by Kaarle Nordenstreng

CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie : Just a Little Masquerade? by Aliaa Dakroury

Blogs and female expression in the Middle East by Basilio G. Monteiro and Middle Eastern students

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