Hey
If I don't get hold of you before demonstrating, I will be in the teaching
lab. I think it is actually the part 2 lab even thou it's 1b. On Nov 18
2009, Chris Adriaanse wrote:
> List members may be interested in this talk next week hosted by BlueSci,
> the Cambridge University science communications society:
>
>Communicating science: easy but impossible
>
> Despite a growing interest among scientists in engaging with the public
> and the media, we still lacks a genuine science communication culture.
> While communication of every kind is on everyone's lips, we are still far
> from the genuinely 'intelligent' communication promised by the advent of
> the 'knowledge society'. Technologies may be partly responsible for this
> paradox. Having pervasive 'means' of accessing and exchanging information
> creates the feeling that we are communicating better. While this is no
> doubt true in so far as society is spontaneously generating new and
> creative initiatives, much remains to be done when it comes to the
> various levels in established institutions and organizations. We will
> discuss other challenges science communication is facing today such as:
>
>- Do we need science journalists?
>- New technologies: friends or foes?
>- Turning science into "mediascience"
>- Promoting the science-society dialogue
>
>About the speaker:
>
> Michel Claessens is currently Deputy Head of the Communication Unit in
> the Research Directorate-General at the European Commission. He is also
> the editor-in-chief of the research*eu magazine of the European
> Commission. A scientific journalist and writer, Michel Claessens has
> published 250 articles and 8 books on several aspects of modern science
> and technology. He is also professor of science communication at the Free
> University of Brussels.
>
>http://ec.europa.eu/research/research-eu/index_en.html
>www.michelclaessens.net
>
> The talk will be at 7pm, Thursday 26th November at the Leverhulme Centre
> for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
>
>Free to BlueSci members otherwise £2.
>
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