SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
A book presented by the Conference of Italy’s Deans of Science
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
The idea
More media-savvy scientists = better relations between science and society
= more young talents in science = more physicists in the job market
(among many more other things)
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
FOREWORD
What do scientists have to do with the media world?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Best selling science writers (1)
Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, John D. Barrrow, Edward O. Wilson,
Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza, Martin Rees, Konrad Lorenz, Antonio Damasio,George
Gamow, Steven Pinker…
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Best selling science writers (2)Matt Ridley, Sir David Attenborough,
Simon Singh, Isaac Asimov…
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 1
What do you find when you get out of the ivory tower?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Listen before speaking
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
The future is arriving - faster and faster
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 2
What are the rules of the media world?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Double helix, double communication
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 3
Is communication just a matter of creativity?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Looking into the public’s mind
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 4
How do you become a science writer?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
The skills of a science writer
fiction writer + essayist + teacher + advocate + artist
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 5
How do you use journalists?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Working together
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
CHAPTER 6
“The medium is the message”:what can it mean?
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
Dulcis in fundo
• only 150 pages
• e-book
• free
www.con-scienze.it
SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONa scientist’s survival kit
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