Communicating Science

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.

'Catastrophe theory' by Robyn Williams

'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

WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression.

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