Curriculum Planning
S>R. Ameli; A. Bicharanlou; M. Bahar; F. Gholami
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It is well known that environmental problems, including water crisis, nowadays are much important to natural science as to social science. This research is to study the theoretical relationship between communication and water and the potentialities of water communication as an interdisciplinary area ...
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It is well known that environmental problems, including water crisis, nowadays are much important to natural science as to social science. This research is to study the theoretical relationship between communication and water and the potentialities of water communication as an interdisciplinary area to manage water crisis in Iran. Herve-Bazin ' water communication model as a suitable pattern for depicting the theoretical approaches explaining water communication issues, considers this discipline as an intersection of environment communication, development communication, risk communication, health communication, science communication, public communication, political communication, law and responsible communication. Explaining the various aspects of water issues in Iran, this paper proposes a promoted model containing different theoretical areas on water communication. At the end, it concludes that Iranian environmental journalists and media activists can change the constructivist approaches to water crisis and catch more attention to social and cultural aspects of water crisis by focusing on the strategic communications in designing messages related to water crisis in media outlets.
M. Boroujerdi Alavi; F. Bonyadi
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The aim of the present study is to investigate “the challenges and hindrances to science journalism in Iran” using in-depth semi-structured interviews with science journalists and experts. The results of the study show that some of the challenges to science and science policy in the country ...
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The aim of the present study is to investigate “the challenges and hindrances to science journalism in Iran” using in-depth semi-structured interviews with science journalists and experts. The results of the study show that some of the challenges to science and science policy in the country are the same as the challenges to science journalism. The elitist view of science, academics’ charge of populism against any involvement in the production of media content, the prevalence of a technocratic model in the atmosphere of science policy-making rather than a model of public participation, the ideologization of science and technology, and the consideration of science as power by science policy-makers are among the challenges a science journalist has to confront in Iran. Science journalists have not been trained for a professional presence in this field. This, coupled with the lack of an educational institution for the public sphere, has turned science journalism into an arena of trial and error experience which allows many errors and undermines confidence in the scientific community. Quality products are not encouraged and quantity is valued over quality, which results in failure to publish desirable works. Moreover, due to an exaggerated elitist consideration of scientists in the public opinion, journalists lose their critical power against scientists, and content is presented to the audience without being simplified.
Mohammad Vahidi
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The goal of this paper is to show that, as in other fields of humanities and social studies, there has been a shift from monologue to dialogue in the course of the history of “science, technology, and society” studies. The paper discusses the topic by reconsideration of key paradigms of science ...
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The goal of this paper is to show that, as in other fields of humanities and social studies, there has been a shift from monologue to dialogue in the course of the history of “science, technology, and society” studies. The paper discusses the topic by reconsideration of key paradigms of science and society studies, such as scientific literacy, public understanding of science and technology etc. During this paradigm evolution, it has been gradually accepted that up-down models of Science Communication, which assume public as suffering from knowledge deficit, do not work even to improve the public support of science. The outcome of related debates in the recent half-century, according to the paper, was that science and society should participate in a proper, immediate, and equivalent dialogue. The paper supports this conclusion by review of studies that documented and analyzed the history of studies and initiatives of “science, technology, and society”
