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Science and the Media. Science in the popular media. Newer posts →. Who is shaping you opinion? If you are into nanotechnology, which medium will be your first choice to get the news about it? A study explored the coverage and thematic content between newspaper and online media (including Google New search and Google Blog search) on nanotechnology (Cacciatore et al., 2012), and here are several main findings:. We often think that the internet has everything; it offer news as well as background, comments,...

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Sex, Drugs and… Fruit Flies? | Science writing

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Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. R Mckee. The Art of Commenting. May 18, 2012 / thomaschadwick20245886. Sex, Drugs and… Fruit Flies? The article Sexually deprived flies turn to alcohol. 1] summarizes a paper. On face value this story doesn’t appear to have much value to the average reader. Who cares about alcoholic, sexually frustrated fruit flies? By making this link the author ensures that more people will be intrigued by the article, purely because it is about s...

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TALK TO ME !! | Science writing

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Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. R Mckee. The Art of Commenting. May 25, 2012 / elenav90. Is largely what distinguishes humans from other species. It represents the foundation of our social and political organisation. I bet that even you. Were engaged in some form of dialogue during the last half hour (yes,. Chat counts). But aside from chatting to attract potential mates, dialogue. Can make a piece of writing much livelier! Or the study of the meaning of words, ph...

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Attracting Attention | Science displays and exhibits

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Science displays and exhibits. Effective interpretation, display and exhibit design. Asymp; 9 Comments. Stephen Bitgood describes an Attention-Value Model for museum visitors, where there are three stages of visitor attention:. Where unfocused visitors first become aware of a particular item,. When visitors pay attention to an item and ignore all others, and. There are many factors that influence how visitor attention is caught during these stages such as:. Noticeability: how much a display stands out.

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Don’t let the attention go! | Science displays and exhibits

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Science displays and exhibits. Effective interpretation, display and exhibit design. Don’t let the attention go! Asymp; 4 Comments. Have you ever noticed that which direction you more likely turn when you enter a space, left or right? Stephen Bitgood’s Attention Value Model , which has been discussed in a previous post. Described that the first stage of visitors attention is where unfocused visitors first become aware of a particular item , which is called Capture Stage (Bitgood, 2010). In one of his pre...

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Is Virtual Museum the Next Step? | Science displays and exhibits

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Science displays and exhibits. Effective interpretation, display and exhibit design. Is Virtual Museum the Next Step? Asymp; 6 Comments. The first good news of having a virtual museum is that it takes down the geographical barrier. I guess most of you who are now spending more than half of your life on the Internet can easily understand this. The result is that virtual museums are both able to reach a worldwide publicity and beyond the limit space for displaying exhibits. It also reminds me an interestin...

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The ever changing individual | Science displays and exhibits

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Science displays and exhibits. Effective interpretation, display and exhibit design. The ever changing individual. Asymp; 7 Comments. This paper than I am blogging about is the rebuttal of the author Falk to issues raised by Dawson and Jensen. They questioned the assumption Falk made that the visitor’s contexts are changing over time. May I set the scene? Vol 14, no. 2, pp. 127-140. Falk, J. H., and Storksdieck, M. (2005). Using the contextual model of learning to understand visitor learn...Thoughts on &...

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Exhibits to support learning | Science displays and exhibits

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Science displays and exhibits. Effective interpretation, display and exhibit design. Exhibits to support learning. Asymp; 6 Comments. In my opinion an exhibit should not just be a piece that is entertaining. The audience as well. These factors need to tie together, entwine around each other and work from one another to create an effective exhibit. Although an exhibition seems to be a novel, stimulating, rich and multi sensory approach to learning it is often overwhelmed by the lack of curriculum, teacher...

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Watching sci-fi movies can blur understanding of science | Science and the Media

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Science and the Media. Science in the popular media. Who is shaping you opinion? Watching the guinea pig; Papua New Guinea →. Watching sci-fi movies can blur understanding of science. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. A group of 38 students in 8. Grade were tested on their understanding of earth science concepts after going through 4 weeks of classroom study and then watching the movie. Why do this study? What did they find?

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What makes a go… | Science and the Media

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Science and the Media. Science in the popular media. Tell me a story grandma? The happy hormone →. What makes a good science podcast? You are asking the right person, I am subscribed to 20 of them (a few more since I read this paper). Bear in mind that I have a background in science and most of the respondents to the survey also have a general interest in science (although it is not clear if the podcast inspires people to seek out more science or if they were listening to the podcast because they were in...