Op de blog van FrankNu vind je artikelen over wetenschapscommunicatie en communicatiewetenschap. Met tips, diepgravende artikelen over communicatietheorieën en alles daartussenin.
What I have come to think differently about, the website Beste ID asked me and 76 other scientists, administrators, philosophers, journalists and other thinkers. That is that good communication is above all about listening. And thus that some scientists are at least partly responsible for the growing gap between science and the practically educated in society.
Members of the association SciComNL have expressed what they consider important for the National Centre for Science Communication that is to be established. Especially knowledge development and knowledge sharing are, in my opinion, essential functions of such a body.
It is to be hoped that the freshly appointed ministers and state secretaries in the Netherlands are less concerned with image than with the content of their work. But I hope that the media will also take responsibility in this process.
This essay discusses why good science journalism is important and why it means that journalists need to have more training in this specialty.