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This account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain includes special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universities as well as on measuring the public impact of the culture of science.

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This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved in science communication, including researchers, academics, students, journalists, science museum staff, scientists high public profiles, and information officers in scientific institutions.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

PART 1: National Overviews

1. The ´Communicative Turn´ in Contemporary Techno-Science: Latin American Approaches and Global Tendencies

2. The Evolution of Science Communication Research on Australia

3. The Development of Science Communication Studies in Canada

4. Science Popularization Studies in China

5. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China

6. Deliberation, Dialogue or Dissemination: Changing Objectives in the Communication of Science and Technology in Denmark

7. Social Sciences and the Communication of Science and Technology in France: Implications, Experimentation and Critique

8. The Recent Public Understanding of Science Movement in Germany

9. Public Understanding of Science: Glimpses of the Past and Roads Ahead

10. Whose Science? What Knowledge? Science, Rationality and Literacy in Africa

11. An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media

12. From Science Popularization To Public Engagement: The History of Science Communication in Korea

13. Spanish PCST and the European Science in Society Strategy

14. Science Museums and Cultural Images of Modernity: Scientific Communication, New Identities and Sociopolitical Constraints on Science Museums in Spain

PART 2: Horizontal Issues

15. Slowly But Surely: How the European Union Promotes Science Communication

16. Vital and Vulnerable: Science Communication as a University Subject

17. Visible Scientists, Media Coverage and National Identity: Nobel Laureates in the Italian Daily Press

18. Engagement: The Key To the Communicative Effectiveness of Science and Ideas

19. From Public To Policy

20. Science Culture and its Indicators
Index.

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From the reviews:

"This volume represents the result of several years´ research collaboration in the field of public communication of science and technology, presented and discussed from a global viewpoint. ... this book an interesting and inspired read which changed my understanding and perception of the field of scientific communication. An informative and thought-provoking volume, Science Communication in the World should be of interest to a wide audience, including researchers, teachers, students, journalists and those involved in the history of science." (Kevin Coward, The Biologist, Vol. 59 (5), December, 2012)

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