Massimiano Bucchi analyses communication in the digital era
Massimiano Bucchi is a professor in Sociology of Science of the Università di Trento and an expert in scientific communication. He will address in a conference on Monday 7 “Science Communication in the Digital Age: the cost and value of Quality”. The sessions will take place in the Boardroom César Simón of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication of the Universitat de València at 11 a.m.
4 de may de 2018
Massimiano Bucchi is currently an editor of the magazine Public Understanding of Science (PUS) and writes on science and technology in different journals as Repubblicaand La Stampa. He has been a visiting lecturer in several academic and research institutions in Asia, Europe and Northern America. Among his publications we can highlight The Public Communication of Science(Routledge, 2016), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology (with B. Trench, London and NewYork, Routledge, 2008 and new edition in 2014), Beyond Technocracy. Citizens, Politics, Technoscience (New York, Springer, 2009) and Science in Society (London and New York, Routledge, 2004).
In addition, Massimiano Bucchi has received several recognitions such as Mullins Award by the Society for Social Studies of Science (1997) and the special prize of the jury of Merck-Serono for Science Books (2007). He has also published essays in magazines such as Nature and Science.
The conference Science Communication in the Digital Age: the cost and value of Quality has been organised by the research group Scienceflows, the Department of Language Theory and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the Universitat de València.