Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading science communication scholars. It addresses current theoretical, practical and policy developments in science communication, and engagement and dialogue on the part of professional scientists with members of the public.

SECTION 1 - ENGAGING WITH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; 1.1 Moving forwards or in circles? Science communication and scientific governance in an age of innovation; 1.2 The new politics of public engagement with science?; 1.3 (In)authentic sciences and (im)partial publics: (re)constructing the science outreach and public engagement agenda; SECTION 2 - RESEARCHING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; 2.1 Investigating science communication to inform science outreach and public engagement; 2.2 Learning to engage; engaging to learn: the purposes of informal science-public dialogue; 2.3 Engaging with interactive science exhibits: A study of children's activity and the value of experience; SECTION 3 - STUDYING SCIENCE IN POPULAR MEDIA; 3.1 Science, communication and media; 3.2 Models of science communication; SECTION 4 - MEDIATING SCIENCE NEWS; 4.1 Making science newsworthy: exploring the conventions of science journalism; 4.2 Science reporting in the electronic embrace of the Internet; SECTION 5 - COMMUNICATING SCIENCE IN POPULAR MEDIA; 5.1 From flow to user-flows: Understanding 'good science' programming in the UK digital television landscape; 5.2 Image-music-text of popular science; SECTION 6 - EXAMINING AUDIENCES FOR POPULAR SCIENCE; 6.1 Reinterpreting the audiences for media messages about science; 6.2 Investigating gendered representations of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians on UK children's television; 6.3 Interpreting contested science: media influence and scientific citizenship