Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of case studies, from climate change and public parks to Facebook, museums, and media coverage, it helps you to understand and analyse the complex and diverse ways science and society relate in today's knowledge intensive environments. Notable features include:

Chapter 1. IntroductionPart I - STS Concepts and SensitivitiesChapter 2. Conceptual Framings: STS Research for Science CommunicationChapter 3. What does an STS approach to Science Communication Look Like?Part II - Mobilizing STS Concepts and Sensitivities: The Case StudiesChapter 4. Object Biographies: The Life of a Hacked Gene Gun - Tybjerg, Karin; Whiteley, Louise; Davies, Sarah R.Chapter 5. Public Science and Public Space: Communicating Ecologies through Landscape Design - Owens, MarcusChapter 6. Visual Climate Communication: Making Facts and Concerns in Popular Science Magazines - Born, DorotheaChapter 7. Public Health Communication: Anecdotal Evidence and Responsibility in Print Media Accounts of Obesity - Felt, UlrikeChapter 8. Constructing Science in Public: Framing Synthetic Yeast in News Media - Szymanski, ErikaChapter 9. Science, Emotion, and Identity Online: Constructing Science and Selves on "I Fucking Love Science" - Marsh, OliverChapter 10. Coproducing Knowledge and Nation States: Nutrition Communication and the making of Citizens - Ben Shachar, Teharlev Erela; Davidovitch, Nadav Chapter 11. Communicating Forensic Genetics: "Enthusiastic" Publics and the Management of Expectations - Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena Part III - Concluding ThoughtsChapter 12. Connections, Assemblages, and Open Ends