• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.145-183
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• 2012

Science reporting is easier to lead to failure than other news reporting because it needs higher professionalism. According to Actor-Network Theory(ANT), not only research results(artifacts) of scientists but also science articles are hybrid networks. Namely, they are connected by human actors(scientist, reporter, etc.) and nonhuman actors(press releases etc.). When the process of science reporting is examined on the view of ANT, it is the process that scientists' results translate the media via press releases as intermediaries and expand their network to the public. This study aims at making an ANT analysis of how research results of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI) scientist Hyun-Tak Kim were reported by lots of media, focusing on the rhetoric of ETRI's press release. It can reveal the reason for the science reporting's failure and hint at the better science journalism.

• Water for future
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.23-29
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• 2019

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.49
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• pp.99-121
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• 2010

Utilizing Q methodology, this study explored typology on journalists' barriers to science reporting. Two research issues were raised: First, what are the subjectivity factors and characteristic feature of journalist's barriers to science reporting; Second, what are the commonalities and differences among them. 20 science journalists were interviewed in-depth to find out their subjectivity factors. Korean journalists' type of barriers to science reporting could be classified into 4 groups as follows: Type I(N=8) is "reporting tendency barrier" type. Type II(N=3) is named for "institutional and systematic framework barrier". Type 3(N=5) belongs to "situational barrier" type. Type 4(N=3) is "scientific knowledge barrier" type.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.275-292
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• 1999

This study aimed to explore the saliences of formal school science and their influences on the attitude toward science communication through mass media. Saliences of school science are salient memories of school science which a perciever attends to selectively among various aspects of formal school science. Among saliences. external saliences refer to the sensory aspects of formal school science. and internal saliences refer to the observers' cognition. Attitude toward science communication through mass media constitute six scales; exposure. cognition. focus. belief. self perception of understanding. application. The questionnaire were developed and sample was selected by multi-stage stratified clustering. The sample size was 1,825. The data was analysed by correlation and multiple stepwise regression. Positive saliences were lab work and science teacher and negative saliences were lecture and exam/grade. According to the correlation and multiple stepwise regression analysis. saliences of the formal school science could account only a small part of the attitude toward science communication through mass media. Internal salieces could account the attitude toward science communication than external salience. Further studies on new models including attitude towards science are needed.

• Water for future
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• v.56 no.8
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• pp.58-67
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• 2023

• The Science & Technology
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• v.35 no.5 s.396
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• pp.96-97
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• 2002

제35회 대한민국과학기술상ㆍ과학상 수상자 - 한국과학기술원 최덕인 명예교수, 플라즈마 물리학 국내도입/ 제35회 대한민국과학기술상ㆍ기술상 수상 - (주)LG화학 여종기 사장, 국내 최초 엔지니어링 플라스틱 개발/제35회 대한민국과학기술상ㆍ기술상 수상 - 포항제철광양제철소 최병만 기성보, 30년간 제강기술 20여건 개발/제35회 대한민국과학기술상ㆍ진흥상 수상자 - 한서대 강신구 객원교수, 과학기술 보도 활성화에 기여

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.125-154
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• 2007

1997년부터 2002년까지 수돗물의 바이러스 오염 여부에 관한 논쟁이 있었다. 서울대의 K 교수는 학회에서 수돗물을 분석한 결과 질병을 일으키는 바이러스가 검출되었다고 보고했고, 이 내용이 언론을 통해 보도되면서 수돗물의 안정성에 대한 논쟁이 일어났다. 이 논쟁은 바이러스 검출방법론의 신뢰성을 둘러싼 과학적 논쟁과 검출된 바이러스가 위험한지에 대한 위험논쟁이 함께 공존하며 진행되었다. 필자는 정책의 변화를 요구하는 과학적 사실을 둘러싼 논쟁을 분석하기 위해 과학전문가와 정부를 분석의 대상으로 삼고 있으며, 아래의 세 가지를 주장하고 있다. 첫째, 논쟁을 제기한 과학자(K 교수)와 정부(환경부, 서울시)가 바이러스의 확인부터, 승인, 정책 결정에 이르는 전 과정에서 검출방법론에 차이를 보이고 있으며, 이러한 방법의 차이는 민감성과 정확성을 추구하는 과학계와 법적기준을 위한 정량적 가치를 중시하는 정부의 특징이 반영된 것임을 주장한다. 둘째, 과학논쟁에서 K 교수팀이 PCR 방법을 통해 바이러스의 실재(reality)를 확인하면서 과학적 정당성을 확보했음을 보인다. 셋째 바이러스의 검출 방법에서 PCR 방법이 과학적 실재를 결정했지만, 위험의 실재를 규정하는 데에는 한계가 있었음을 지적한다. 마지막으로 본 논문은 논쟁분석을 통해 정책입안을 둘러싼 과학 위험논쟁에서 과학전문가의 역할을 고찰하고 있다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.44 no.7
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• pp.54-64
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• 2004

최근 국내 대학들에서 보이는 과학기술학에 대한 관심은 그 어느 때보다도 크다고 할 수 있다. 과학사나 과학철학 등의 강좌는 오래 전부터 쉽게 접할 수 있는 교양 과목으로 자리 잡아 왔지만, 최근에는 거기서 더 나아가 과학기술학을 이공계 학부 필수 교양으로 지정하는 학교까지 등장하고 있다. 과학기술이 없는 현대사회를 상상하는 것이 불가능할 만큼 과학기술이 중요해진 이 때, 과학기술을 생산하는 일에 몸담지 않는다 하더라도 과학기술의 소비자로서 과학기술의 역사와 특성, 발전 방향, 과학기술 윤리, 그 철학적 함의 등을 생각해 보는 일은 가치 있는 일이다.(중략)

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.62
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• pp.244-263
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• 2013

There have been enormous social impacts on many areas, including science journalism, since the so-called "Hwang Woo Suk" incident. Although wide demand for better science journalism has been aroused since then, but it is hard to find an evidence to prove we have reached the point. This study examines how major Korean newspapers report Unidentified Flying Objects in order to test if the level of science journalism had been elevated. As results, still it is a long road ahead to achieve the goals because most reports were taken from the international news agents or from the witnesses rather than scientific researches and analyses; terminologies used in the stories were ambiguous; follow-up stories were rare, the sources were usually pseudo-scientific, wanton errors in basic facts and coherence, and other problems were found. It could be suggested that the dependency on supplied news to be reduced, journalists who understand both science and journalism are required, inner regulations on science reporting to be established, correct quotations and fact-checks to be accomplished, fairness to be maintained within the boundary of normal science.

• Water for future
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.87-91
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• 2020