- Institutional Narratives and their Role in Communication of Science and Technology: a Study of Public Science Museums and Centres in India
- Chakraborty, Anwesha <1984>
Subject
- M-STO/05 Storia della scienza e delle tecniche
Description
- This dissertation looks at the narrative of science and technology promoted by national level public institutions which work in the field of science communication and public understanding of science. Focus is on India and specifically on the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM hereafter), which is a centrally funded organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It is in charge of creating a large number of science centres around the country and also managing several of them. The organization has a clearly defined set of goals and objectives, the most prominent one of which is the ‘promotion of scientific temper’ (a recurring theme dealt with in the chapters), and is in charge of carrying out multiple programmes of public engagement with science, the details of which can be found in the annual activity reports. These constitute a part of the primary literature used in the dissertation. Interviews carried out with highly involved stakeholders (like the NCSM management), field notes gathered during museum visits and other publications of NCSM and contributions of NCSM professionals to academic discourse constitute the other primary sources.
Date
- 2017-06-07
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-20874
Chakraborty, Anwesha (2017) Institutional Narratives and their Role in Communication of Science and Technology: a Study of Public Science Museums and Centres in India, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Science, cognition and technology