http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47132 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:04:03 GMT 2026-10-20T02:04:03Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47251 Title: Social Context of Science Communication: Local Science Communication Strategy Authors: Donghong, Cheng Abstract: The article focuses on ‘social context’ research in the area of science communication. It further proposes to take social context as a research perspective and analysis methodology to tackle the issue of strategic planning in science communication. The survey of journals reveals that the number of papers published on the social context of science communication is far limited compared to other issues that have been dealt with by the scholars working in this area. The article makes a case for conducting deeper research on definition and description of contextual-science-communication. There is sufficient literature available on comparative studies in science communication and public understanding of science, however since most of the scholars have not taken ‘social context’ into account, it provides limited understanding of reality across cultures. Page(s): 12-33 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47251 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47250 Title: Scientific Temper: An Arena of Contestation in a Globalized World Authors: Raza, Gauhar Abstract: There are three conditions that guide this conversation. Firstly, this paper is not an effort to provide a solution to the questions and concerns that have been repeatedly raised by the community of scholars who have worked in the area of Public Understanding of Science (PUS) over the past 30 years. The paper tries to argue that all science communication activities should aim at develop- ing a ‘scientifically tempered society’. Secondly, this paper is a continuation of the keynote address presented at the International Conference on Science Communication, Nancy, France, 2012 (Raza, 2012), and two editorials published in the Journal of Scientific Temper. Thirdly, the paper draws heavily on the Indian experience and history; therefore, any generalization requires careful scrutiny to ensure local applicability. Page(s): 34-43 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47250 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47249 Title: Making Science is Global, Science Culture Remains Local Authors: Bauer, Martin W Abstract: The paper deals with the cultures related to science and discusses, on one hand, ‘scientific culture’ which is global in nature and refers to as the way science and research is carried out all over the world with the same procedures and similar equipment, with the same theoretical tools and mathematical formalisms, with global mobility of expertise, and communicating to a global peer review process performed by the leading academic journals in each field. The scientific culture remains almost constant and can be mapped by sets of scientometric indicators where input and output variables are reported in standard formats. But on the other, ‘science culture’ refers to the way everyday people think of, imagine and value and contest science and scientific knowledge in their everyday life and thus continues to vary with the world’s cultural diversity. We expect that the public imagination and the conversations about science, varies widely along traditional boundaries of ‘deep culture’, with geography, across generations and levels of education and different historical mentalities across the world. There is urgent need for reconsideration of the relationship between this global ‘scientific culture’ and local ‘science culture’ as common sense. Page(s): 44-55 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47249 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47248 Title: Rethinking Science Culture and Governance Today Authors: Schiele, Bernard; Marec, Joëlle Le Abstract: The paper discusses the four goals of scientific culture or public understanding of science (PUS) and these are: transmitting the values and skills on which our modernity has been built; preserving the nation’s competitive edge; grasping the developments in contemporary science as a part of culture; and enabling everyone to play a full part in current debates. These goals form firm basis and provide platform for discourse of all the actors of public understanding of science. One has to understand various factors associated with these goals and these are discussed as necessity of promoting PUS to preserve the ability to innovate, controlling mechanism, PUS management and PUS governance, etc. The article argues that PUS today is forcing us to think of different processes and objects in constant interaction with each other. Further, the communicators and researchers need to remain mindful of public aspirations and in particular of the sturdy demand for a strong link between attitudes to science and democratic functioning. Page(s): 56-70 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/47248 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z