Paradigm change for science communication: Commercial science needs a critical public

Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New Models, New Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 7-25

  Bauer, Martin W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercialisation of science; knowledge marketing; public relations; science attitudes; science communication; scientific ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350767193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8598-7_1     Document Type: Chapter

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