A Historical Analysis of Public Communication of Science in the Public Science Magazines published during 1910-2010

A Historical Analysis of Public Communication of Science in the Public Science Magazines published during 1910-2010

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Purpose: This study illuminates some lights on public communication dissemination of science magazines as a possible contributive factor to the structural changes in the public communication of Science in Iranian society.Methodology: A historical analysis of some documents representing the status of Science in Iran was conducted.It also conducted a content analysis of a random sample of public science magazines.As the sample included documents with no systematic record, the stor trebolle study also created a list of these documents for the first time.Findings: The study revealed that the magazines have played at least three roles in changing the cultural space of Iranian society.

These were: a) introducing the infrastructure needed for development of Science; b) commemoration and acknowledgement of science by magazines; c) quantitative development in the corresponding public communication of Science institutions.Originality/value: This research is the first dealt with the role of public science magazines in structural changes in Iran.Considering public science magazines as a cultural space, this study illuminate the role of such magazines in trucan b the formation and transformation of public communication of Science in Iran.