Popularization+of+Research

=Popularization of Research (N=4)=


 * Definition:** Scientific Popularization: The aim of scientific popularization is to transmit information to selected audiences in the clearest manner possible, in such a way as to provide those audiences with information that is useful to them.
 * Source:** The International Development Research Centre [|www.idrc.ca/en/ev-104551-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html]
 * Focus:** Science


 * Definition:** 1.Popularization is generally regarded as the dissemination of scientific knowledge only to the public at large. 2. (Greg Myers 1996:41-42) popularizations are all texts through which people relate academic knowledge to their lives and assess its claims...3. Laaksovirta defines popularization as an intersect between scientific knowledge and common knowledge; it is an attempt to unite these two types of knowledge (1986:103-104).
 * Source:** http://tutkielmat.uta.fi/pdf/lisuri00001.pdf
 * Focus:** Technical Communication


 * Definition:** "Popularisation" carries one of two meanings. It means the spread of knowledge in science and technology to the masses, but it may also mean the acquisition of new science and technology for improving one's social and economic life. But the popularisation of science and technology should aim at not only the spreading of basic knowledge among the general population of scientific and technological topics, but also at de-mystification and de-dogmatization of science and technology.
 * Source:** United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and The University of Hong Kong http://www.unesco.org/education/pdf/325_62.pdf#page=138
 * Focus:** Science and Technology


 * Definition:** The term “science popularization” alludes to a set of activities, disciplines and approaches that seek to communicate science to a wide voluntary audience. No definition is commonly accepted by all science popularizers, because their practices are usually carried out in a practical way, without a proper theory to sustain it. (A definition that has gained good acceptance in Mexico has been presented by A. Sánchez Mora [1].) This situation has resulted in each different group or individual trying to develop its own theoretical framework to plan, evaluate and analyze their activities....Briefly, it could be said that the range of important and valid goals for science popularization is very broad: entertaining, informing, teaching, arising new scientific vocations, challenging pseudoscience, democratizing scientific knowledge, spreading scientific culture... [4].
 * Source:** http://www.pcst2004.org/ing/pdf/Parallel_Session_9.pdf
 * Focus:** Science