At the end of this lesson, students will:
- Identify the role of dissemination-understand the issues of communicating science; know the importance of tools in sharing knowledge
- be aware of the importance of media in scientific dissemination and be able to recognise conspiracy theories and false information
Lesson’s short presentation
Lesson’s reading
Additional study material
Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, Thomas Grundmann, The Epistemology of Fake News, Edited by Oxford University Press (2021). https://academic.oup.com/book/39398
Sara E. Brownell, Jordan V. Price and Lawrence Steinman, Science Communication to the General Public: Why We Need to Teach Undergraduate and Graduate Students this Skill as Part of Their Formal Scientific Training. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ.12(1): E6-E10 (2013). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852879/pdf/june-12-e6.pdf
David M Eagleman. Why public dissemination of science matters: a manifesto. J Neurosci. 2013 Jul 24;33(30):12147-9. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2556-13.2013. PMID: 23884922; PMCID: PMC6618668. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/30/12147
Astrid Erll – Ethics in Culture, The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft Spectrum Literature)-Walter de Gruyter (2008) https://books.google.si/books/about/Ethics_in_Culture.html?id=XpHQcyK2sykC&redir_esc=y
Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, Basic Books (2009). https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-10850-000
Chiara Orsingher – Assessing Quality in European Higher Education Inst itutions, Dissemination, Methods and Procedures-Physica-Verlag HD (2006). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-7908-1707-8
Daniel H. Robinson and Matthew T. McCrudden, Misinformation and Fake News in Education, A volume in Current Perspectives on Cognition, Learning, and Instruction, Series Editors, Information Age Publishing, Inc. Charlotte, NC, 2019. https://dokumen.pub/misinformation-and-fake-news-in-education-9781641138512-9781641138529-9781641138536.html
Simone Rüfenacht. et al., Communication and Dissemination in Citizen Science. In: et al. The Science of Citizen Science. Springer, Cham, (2021). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_17
WHO, Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics, Report of the Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit Dec 6 2021. Roberta Allocca, Giuseppina Iommelli, Antonio Di Fiore, Luigia Melillo. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/bridging-the-gap-between-ethics-and-decision-making-in-pandemics
