Gouyon, Jean-Baptiste; (2022) Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day.. we must engage’. Public Understanding of Science , 31 (3) pp. 351-355. 10.1177/09636625221077473.

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Bruce Lewenstein is Professor of Science Communication in the Department of Science and Technology studies and the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Editor of Public Understanding of Science from 1998 to 2003, Lewenstein looks back at his tenure in the following interview, highlighting the debate he prompted early on in the journal’s pages about science centers, but also regretting not devoting more space to constructing bridges between science communication and science education. As a scholarly field, says Lewenstein, public understanding of science is vibrantly diverse and should remain so as it derives strength from this diversity. The journal can be a space to showcase and celebrate these different perspectives, but also to offer synthesis and reviews that can identify more general perspectives. Over the past 30 years, models of science communication, as with so many attempts at producing such synthesis, have flourished. Lewenstein himself proposed one, the famous Web model of science communication. None of these models, he concludes, are right or wrong. All are heuristic tools that help us think problems through.

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