Public awareness of science | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-27

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_awareness_of_science


00:00:52 1 Major themes
00:02:08 2 The Bodmer report
00:02:40 3 The contextualist model
00:03:58 4 The deliberative turn
00:04:50 5 Measuring public understanding of science
00:05:08 5.1 1. Factual knowledge
00:05:13 5.1.1 Examples of measurement
00:05:41 5.1.2 Key assumptions
00:05:57 5.2 2. Self-reported knowledge, perceived knowledge, or perceived familiarity
00:06:05 5.2.1 Examples of measurement
00:06:22 5.2.2 Key assumptions
00:06:34 5.3 3. Structural knowledge
00:06:44 5.3.1 Examples of measurement
00:07:27 5.3.2 Key Assumptions
00:07:41 5.4 Mixed use of the three measures
00:08:23 6 Project examples



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SUMMARY
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Public awareness of science (PAwS), public understanding of science (PUS), or more recently, Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST) are terms relating to the attitudes, behaviours, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organisation. It is a comparatively new approach to the task of exploring the multitude of relations and linkages science, technology, and innovation have among the general public. While earlier work in the discipline had focused on augmenting public knowledge of scientific topics, in line with the information deficit model of science communication, the discrediting of the model has led to an increased emphasis on how the public chooses to use scientific knowledge and on the development of interfaces to mediate between expert and lay understandings of an issue.