Need for science communication

in regional languages

Presentation by Gopalam KB

What Is Science?

Is It Not Life?

Or

The Understanding Of all Things touching Life?

Why Tell The Story?

• Because

• we can not be living without understanding ourselves!

• We can not be living without thinking !• Without thinking scientifically!• Methodically!

Method Of Science

• OBSERVATION

• EXPERIMENT

• EXPERIENCE

• THEORY

Think Scientifically

• Understand

• Analyse

• Apply

• Appreciate

Role of media

• Print

• Radio

• Television

• Internet

• Class Room

• The World

Reach Is There !

• Stratification

• Priorities

• Clear Targets

• Right Medium

• Right Language

TALENT AVAILABLE

• SCIENCE JOURNALISM?

• SCIENCE PROGRAMMERS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION

• SCIENCE WRITERS

• SCIENCE TEACHERS?

• GENERAL UNDERSTANDING?

MODUS OF COMMUNICATION

• ONCE IN A WHILE

• IDENTIFIED SLOTS?

• OR

• An all pervasive Scientific temper and

• Method of Science

Media groups

To

rethink !!

We say we are doing science

but

Is that the way it has to be ?

INFORMATION

VS

MIS / DISINFORMATION

ADVERTISEMENTS ARE AN EXAMPLE

SCIENCE HAS TO BE EVERYWHERE