Of all forms of media, radio can play a central role in the modern process of sciencecommunication, exploiting its unique nature of closeness and intimacy. Radio over theyears has been able to reach a large number of people, to diffuse knowledge, to mirror the important changes and social movements that have taken place. This is particularlytrue when dealing with science popularisation at local level. Community radio stations representan interesting place where the discourse of the media and the ...
Of all forms of media, radio can play a central role in the modern process of sciencecommunication, exploiting its unique nature of closeness and intimacy. Radio over theyears has been able to reach a large number of people, to diffuse knowledge, to mirror the important changes and social movements that have taken place. This is particularlytrue when dealing with science popularisation at local level. Community radio stations representan interesting place where the discourse of the media and the discourse of the publicmerge together at a deeper level. Their main characteristics being free access andpublic participation in production and decision-making, community radios have aprominent role in the promotion of the public debate on topics of risk communicationin science, such as biotechnologies or health matters. The network of municipal radiostations of Catalonia is presented as an interesting example where confirmation of thishypothesis can be found.
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