@article{ref1,
title="The Evolution of Public Understanding of Science—Discourse and Comparative Evidence",
journal="Science technology and society",
year="2009",
author="Bauer, M. W.",
volume="14",
number="2",
pages="221-240",
abstract="Public Understanding of Science (PUS) is a field of activity and an area of social research. The evolution of this field comprises both the changing discourse and the substantive evidence of a changing public understanding.1 In the first part, I will present a short account on how the discourse of PUS moved from Literacy, via PUS, to Science-in-Society. This is less a story of progress, but one of false polemics and the multiplication of concerns. In the second part, I will show some empirical evidence on how PUS has changed by drawing on mass media data and large scale comparative survey evidence. I conclude by stressing that the Science-Society relationship is variable both in distance between science and the wider society and in the quality of this relationship.<p />",
language="",
issn="0971-7218",
doi="10.1177/097172180901400202",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097172180901400202"
}