Sharing the Adventure with the Public The Value and Excitement of 'Grand Questions' of Space Science and Exploration: Summary of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Session 8: Communication Pathways to the Public: Reading, Watching, Interacting
Session 8: Communication Pathways to the Public: Reading, Watching, Interacting
Pages 55-58
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She commended the scientists for the effort they are making: "I think you've been doing a heck of a job, but we can always get better." She concluded by saying that the "public is often wrong, but never uncertain." ANDREW LAWLER Andrew Lawler is a freelance science journalist who worked as a staff writer for Science magazine for 15 years. He started his career as a space reporter at the time of the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986, so his beginning was not the glory of the Apollo program but a tragedy, he said.
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Finally, he urged that space advocates stop talking about how much people spend on potato chips versus space spending, which he does not find to be a compelling argument. It is the big questions that interest people -- Where does the universe come from?
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There will be no host and no voiceover, just the individuals talking about the program and their role in it. CHRISTIE NICHOLSON Christie Nicholson, journalist and online contributor for Scientific American, quoted New York University media professor Clay Shirky as describing the "destruction" of print journalism in this manner: The core problem publishing solves -- the difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public -- has stopped being a problem.
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Try it out, the time is now, she exclaimed. PANEL DISCUSSION AND AUDIENCE INTERACTION Jean-Claude Worms, head of the Space Sciences Unit of the European Science Foundation, and Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined Johnson-Freese, Lawler, Cole, and Nicholson on the panel.
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