COMS 3500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Penley, Erving Goffman, Fatalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3500
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Communication and science: defecit, debunking and denial: fact-oriented models of. Science and communication: reading: bauer+falade, public understanding of science. Public understanding of science (pus): has two meanings. 1st meaning: a wide range of activities that aim at bringing rhetoric of science. 2nd meaning: empirical social research that investigates the public understanding of science and how this might vary across time and context. Scientific literacy: 2 ideas: scientific education is part of the secular drive for basic literacy in reading writing and numeracy, science literacy is a necessary part of civic competence. Civic scientific literacy: people participate in political decisions through voting directly or indirectly through public opinion. Politics is only effective through education on the political process. It is assumed that scientific and political ignorance breeds alienation and extremism. These ideas highlight the dangers of cognitive deficit and calls for a better science education throughout the life cycle.