Science Communication / / ed. by Marcelo Dascal, Thomas Gloning, Annette Leßmöllmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Autzen, Charlotte,; Betz, Gregor,; Bittner, Laura,; Brandtner, Andreas,; Bucher, Hans-Jürgen,; Bürger, Moritz,; Dunwoody, Sharon,; Franzen, Martina,; Fritz, Gerd,; Fähnrich, Birte,; Gloning, Thomas,; Greco, Sara,; Hanauska, Monika,; Hauser, Christiane,; Hendriks, Friederike,; Humm, Christian,; Janich, Nina,; Jaworska, Sylvia,; Kessler, Sabrina H.,; Kienhues, Dorothe,; König, Mareike,; Lanius, David,; Lepori, Benedetto,; Leßmöllmann, Annette,; Liebert, Wolf-Andreas,; Lobin, Henning,; Niemann, Philipp,; Pauwels, Luc,; Pohl, Thorsten,; Prinz, Michael,; Reuter, Peter,; Schmid-Petri, Hannah,; Schrögel, Philipp,; Schuster, Britt-Marie,; Schäfer, Mike S.,; Serfati, Michel,; Weitkamp, Emma,; Wormer, Holger,; Zemplén, Gábor Á.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dascal, Marcelo,; Gloning, Thomas,; Leßmöllmann, Annette,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of Communication Science , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 718 p.)

The volume gives a multi-perspective overview of scholarly and science communication, exploring its diverse functions, modalities, interactional structures, and dynamics in a rapidly changing world. In addition, it provides a guide to current research approaches and traditions on communication in many disciplines, including the humanities, technology, social and natural sciences, and on forms of communication with a wide range of audiences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction to the volume -- I. Perspectives of research on scholarly and science communication -- 1. Philosophy of science for science communication in twenty-two questions -- 2. Science understanding between scientific literacy and trust: contributions from psychological and educational research -- 3. The contribution of media studies to the understanding of science communication -- 4. Analyzing science communication through the lens of communication science: Reviewing the empirical evidence -- 5. Modeling science communication: from linear to more complex models -- 6. The contribution of laboratory studies, science studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS) to the understanding of scientific communication -- 7. The contribution of linguistics and semiotics to the understanding of science communication -- 8. The contribution of terminology research to the understanding of science communication -- 9. The study of student academic writing -- II. Text types, media, and practices of science communication -- 10. Epistemic genres -- 11. On the nature and role of visual representations in knowledge production and science communication -- 12. The lecture and the presentation – rhetorics and technology -- 13. Spoken language in science and the humanities -- 14. Scholarly reviewing -- 15. Scientific controversies -- 16. Symbolic notation in scientific communication: a panorama -- 17. The rise of symbolic notation in scientific communication: the case of mathematics -- 18. Grant proposal writing as a dialogic process -- III. Science, scientists, and the public -- 19. Communicative strategies of popularization of science (including science exhibitions, museums, magazines) -- 20. Science journalism -- 21. Teaching science journalism as a blueprint for future journalism education -- 22. Science communication and public relations: beyond borders -- 23. Science communication, advising, and advocacy in public debates -- 24. Forms of science presentations in public settings -- IV. Historical perspectives on science communication -- 25. Historical perspectives on internal scientific communication -- 26. Academic teaching: the lecture and the disputation in the history of erudition and science -- 27. Historical aspects of external science communication -- V. Science communication: present and future -- 28. Reconfigurations of science communication research in the digital age -- 29. The library in a changing world of scientific communication -- 30. Scholarly communication in social media -- 31. Current trends and future visions of (research on) science communication -- Contributors to this volume -- Index