著者

保坂 直紀

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.6, pp.3-16, 2009-09

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A content analysis was made of newspaper articles in Japanese general newspapers and in English ones published in the US, on the same scientific research, to verify the difference between them. Three Japanese articles and three in the US were compared to show that Japanese articles are relatively short and are much the same in terms of the contents involved. Articles in the US, in contrast, do not resemble one another and elaborate on far more various stories such as the effort of the scientists involved and the history of the research field. Japanese newspapers have an inclination to focus on the minimum necessary information. These results suggest that, though Japanese newspapers have some advantages in their own ways, there should be some room for consideration to improve their quality to meet the demand of readers who are not necessarily satisfied with Japanese scientific articles as they are.

著者

杉山 滋郎

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.3, pp.61-86, 2008

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Not a few scientists did write their scientific papers inr omaji (or Roman script) or advocated to write Japanese in romaji in the period between 1880s and 1940s. Other people than scientists, such as Japanese linguists, educators, politicians and businessmen, were indeed among proponents of writing in romaji. And those people working in different sectors in society united to carry out campaigns to promulgate among the public the use of romaji in writing Japanese sentences. The campaigns have been designated Romanization Movement. Why, then, did scientists get involved in the movement? Did they have any interest specific to scientists in writing in romaji? Did they present any distinctive causes as scientists in the movement? The paper aims to answer these questions in taking into account the following circumstances that Japanese scientists had to meet after Meiji Restoration in 1868. Scientists generally communicate their achievements not only to the members of scientific community but also to the general public in cooperation with educators, science journalists, and others. However, when Japanese scholars started scientific research in 1870s, all members of scientific communities around the world, except those of fledgling societies in Japan, did not understand Japanese, while the general public who were to absorb scientific ideas only knew Japanese language and could use kanji (or Chinese character), and kana (or phonetic syllabic script consisting of two separate forms of katakana and hiragana), though they were troubled with kanji's complexity and inconvenience. The analysis that follows explicates what happened with regard to language, terms, and script used in scientific communications between scientists, and scientists and the public in a country where native language was not English or other Western language commonly used in scientific world. The paper also discusses what the history of the Romanization Movement implies for science communication in these days in Japan.

著者

元村 有希子

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.4, pp.69-77, 2008-09-15

著者

藤代 裕之

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.6, pp.92-101, 2009-09

著者

榎木 英介

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.2, pp.49-55, 2007-09

著者

綾部 広則

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.2, pp.56-62, 2007-09

著者

佐藤 (佐久間) りか 和田 恵美子

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.3, pp.89-100, 2008

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The DIPEx webpage created by researchers at Oxford University contains over 1,500 narratives of users of health services in the UK, which are presented in the form of text, audio and video files. Although the webpage gives only fragments of the original narratives given during the interview, it has become a quite powerful and highly-evaluated information tool for patients’ decision-making. Authors argue that segmented patient narratives can be useful in assisting patients to cope with the uncertainty in medicine and health care. Authors also report on the development of the Japanese version of DIPEx modules on breast cancer and prostate cancer.

著者

春日 匠

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.1, pp.36-46, 2007-03

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"Science Shop" is defined as a system which provides independent, participatory research support in response to concerns experienced by civil society. In the Netherlands, science shops have been operated in almost every university since 1970s. The same types of science shops have been conducted in some other countries such as United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark since 1980s. The European Commission is now supporting to disseminate this concept to other European countries, especially to Eastern Europe. In this paper, we will discuss the possibility of the transferring the effectiveness of science shops to the Japanese society. For this purpose, we will review the character, the history and the actual process of science shops. The necessity of "the participatory research" such as science shops are gradually increasing in various parts of the world. Additionally, some cases in third world countries shall clarify the importance of learning from their experience.

著者

隈本 邦彦 上口 義雄 郡 伸子 櫻井 祐太 定池 祐季 佐藤 秀美 田中 徹 三宅 武寿 山﨑 学 山本 俊介 西村 裕一

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.4, pp.3-18, 2008-09-15

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We tried to fill the communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens regarding the method of preventing a tsunami disaster by organizing two events. The events involved discussions between a tsunami researcher and the inhabitants of two places of the Pacific coast of East Hokkaido where the damage that could be caused by a possible future tsunami was estimated. Contents in the event were deliberately designed to be useful for interactive communications. As a result of the evaluation by the participant questionnaire following the events, a interactive communication between the tsunami researcher and the inhabitants was arranged, and we were able to provide the inhabitants with information that they wished to know about the prevention of tsunami disaster.

著者

目代 邦康 岡田 小枝子

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.6, pp.117-120, 2009-09

著者

八木 絵香 平川 秀幸

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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no.4, pp.56-68, 2008-09

著者

石村 源生

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.5, pp.86-104, 2009-03

著者

標葉 隆馬 川上 雅弘 加藤 和人 日比野 愛子

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.6, pp.17-32, 2009-09

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In modern times, there is a growing need for scientists' active participation in science communication. However, scientists' current attitudes toward science communication are unclear, despite the fact that scientists are one of the main actors of science communication. In order to consider the effective participation of scientists in science communication, a survey on scientists' attitude is necessary. To this end, an Internet-based questionnaire survey to researchers in life science fields was conducted in 2008, and 1255 respondents were obtained. The results show the attitudes concerning 1) motivation, 2) hurdle for participating in communication, and 3) way of promoting communication, between strongly active scientists and less strongly active scientists. From the result, we considered the issues of science communication in two aspects: infrastructure and variety of awareness. These are important factors for promoting science communication: infrastructure which makes opportunities for communication constantly without the need for a lot of preparation by scientists, and new communication tools and designs especially of scientists who have less positive view of science communication.

著者

長神 風二

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.1, pp.14-24, 2007-03

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“Science Agora 2006” the first integrated event for science communications in Japan was held on 25-27th November 2006. In the event, 86 associations or groups held their own session, 104 sessions and posters were shown, and more than 1500 people participated. The event was aimed for“ infrastructure development” for the advancements of science communications in Japan. Three purposes of“ agoras” were designed; the dialogues between society and science, that between the various science sectors, and that amongst science communicators. In this report, I describe how these purposes were reflected to the process of program planning and how these were realized or not. The network amongst science communicators in Japan were reinforced by the event, and some trials for the corporation between various science sectors were started by the event. Also some outreach events for general public made a good success in Science Agora 2006. Each success was independently accomplished, but Science Agora has the potential to be the place for the active interaction between the different purposes. In future, the multiple network, from government, researchers to general public, should be constructed based on Science Agora, and it will contribute to the sustainable development of science in society.

著者

村松 秀

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.3, pp.115-128, 2008

著者

早岡 英介 高橋 理 中村 奈穂子

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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no.14, pp.15-31, 2013-12

著者

川本 思心 浅羽 雅晴 大石 麻美 武山 智博 関島 恒夫 島谷 幸宏 西條 美紀

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.5, pp.19-40, 2009-03

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Dialogues with community constituents are indispensable for scientists whose research fields and applications are closely related with communities throughout the research processes of consensus building on executions of research projects, making decisions on research policies, sharing the products of the projects, corrections. What kind of guidance is required for scientists to maintain a dialogue with the society? Using mailing list and web portfolio, we recorded a process of planning and executing a science cafe with two researchers who research for reintroduction of Crested Ibis (Toki) into Sado Island. Additionally, to understand the reality of the research, we observed the field research by the scientists in Sado Island. This record and analysis about difficulty and the solution of the science cafe serves scientists as a effectively guidance.

著者

白田 茜

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.5, pp.41-52, 2009-03

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This research revealed that citizen participation on food safety would visualize the problems in food safety policy and would contribute to the determination of the direction of the policy. Biases in the developing technologies, due to decision by a restricted number of people such as experts, could possibly be corrected by the participation of various citizens. Thorough their participation in conferences, citizens deepen their opinion, exert a role as a more constructive partner in food safety, and also express tolerance and understanding of other participants' opinions. This indicates educational aspect of citizen participation.

著者

石村 源生

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.3, pp.137-148, 2008

著者

比屋根 均

出版者

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

雑誌

科学技術コミュニケーション (ISSN:18818390)

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vol.1, pp.4-13, 2007-03

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A society for the study of engineering ethics, which is also called 'The ET Society', is part of the Chubu Branch of the Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan (IPEJ). The development of our ET Society in communication can be divided into two stages. At the first stage, we had internal communication between engineers. At the second stage, we had interactive communication between engineers and the public through 'Technology Cafe'. With this experience, the paper discusses the effectiveness and possibilities of engineers' interactive technology communication.