Rethinking science communication as the social
conversation around science
Trench, Brian and Bucchi, Massimiano
(2021)
Rethinking science communication as the social
conversation around science.
Journal of Science Communication, 20
(3).
pp. 1-11.
ISSN 1824-2049
In this essay the authors reflect on some recent trends in science
communication research, celebrating it as an inherently interdisciplinary
endeavour. Some current tendencies in science communication are more
limiting, however: they present theoretical and strategic prescriptions that
do not adquately reflect the variety and cultural diversity of science
communication internationally. Rethinking science communication in the
context of such diverse practices and cultural reorientations, the authors
revise some of their own views and revisit notions of communication as
conversation to propose an inclusive definition of science communication
as the social conversation around science.