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Science information in the media: an academic approach to improve its intrinsic quality
No full textThe lay audience expresses a clear demand for scientific information, particularly when health and welfare are involved. For most people science is what they learn from the media. The need for good scientific journalism is pressing, to bridge the gap between the slow pace of science and the fast-moving and concise nature of successful mass communication. This academic postgraduate course was established by the Department of Pharmacological Sciences to train mediators to improve the quality of lay scientific dissemination. The programme focuses on teaching a method of selecting, analysing, understanding, mediating and diffusing scientific information to lay people. The course explores the theoretical and practical aspects of methods, techniques and channels of scientific communication. Case studies, practical exercises, and stages complement the theoretical curriculum. The teaching focus is on reducing the asymmetry between scientists and the public. The different backgrounds of students and the spread of topics are major challenges
Arte e scienza : percorsi paralleli
No full textIl percorso scientifico ha una forte tensione creativa paragonabile a ogni percorso poetico, pittorico, artistico in generale. Come in ogni numero, l’obiettivo principale del nostro giornale è quello di integrare le diverse forme di conoscenza e di comunicazion
Information sources in biomedical science and medical journalism : methodological approaches and assessment
No full textThroughout the world the public is showing increasing interest in medical and scientific subjects and journalists largely spread this information, with an important impact on knowledge and health. Clearly, therefore, the relationship between the journalist and his sources is delicate: freedom and independence of information depend on the independence and truthfulness of the sources. The new "precision journalism" holds that scientific methods should be applied to journalism, so authoritative sources are a common need for journalists and scientists. We therefore compared the individual classifications and methods of assessing of sources in biomedical science and medical journalism to try to extrapolate scientific methods of evaluation to journalism. In journalism and science terms used to classify sources of information show some similarities, but their meanings are different. In science primary and secondary classes of information, for instance, refer to the levels of processing, but in journalism to the official nature of the source itself. Scientists and journalists must both always consult as many sources as possible and check their authoritativeness, reliability, completeness, up-to-dateness and balance. In journalism, however, there are some important differences and limits: too many sources can sometimes diminish the quality of the information. The sources serve a first filter between the event and the journalist, who is not providing the reader with the fact, but with its projection. Journalists have time constraints and lack the objective criteria for searching, the specific background knowledge, and the expertise to fully assess sources. To assist in understanding the wealth of sources of information in journalism, we have prepared a checklist of items and questions. There are at least four fundamental points that a good journalist, like any scientist, should know: how to find the latest information (the sources), how to assess it (the quality and authoritativeness), how to analyse and filter it (selection), how to deal with too many sources of information, sometimes case biased by conflicting interests (balance). The journalist must, in addition, know how to translate it to render it accessible and useful to the general public (dissemination), and how to use it best
Scuola in comunicazione scientifica : cinque anni di attività Il corso postlaurea della scuola in comunicazione scientifica: i primi cinque anni di attività
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La comunicazione del rischio nei momenti di crisi nell’area della salute pubblica : aspetti teorico- pratici
No full textHelping doctors put patients first : an innovative service from health libraries
No full textThe lay public’s interest in health topics is growing continuously. Thus the media devote ample space to articles on health, medicine and welfare. However journalists are less specialized then in the past and a major difficulty for them is the selection of facts from scientific literature to be translated into newsitems.
We have designed an alerting service for general practitioners on health from news published in the press, to enable doctors to get closer to their patients, grasp their approach to medicine and whenever necessary correct it. The supply of the service through e-m ail messages is simple, inexpensive and not greatly time consuming. The project was suggested as an innovative and interesting addition to the portfolio of products and services of health and hospital libraries
Supporting the practice of health communication professional
No full textHealth authorities, hospitals, commercial enterprises, and mass media all deliver health and medical communication in different forms. With such a vaste amount of biomedical and clinical information available, any action to ensure the spread of clinically relevalnt news items is welcome. This paper tries to define a new role for health science librarians in improving medical communication and reporting. Literature relating to the health and medical reporting is analysed to identify major difficulties encountered by health communicators. A better understanding of the mass media's neeeds can provide much neeeded support in the field of health communicatio
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