Amphibious environments in Science Communication

Amphibious environments in Science Communication

The historian Marshall Berman wrote that living in modern times means "to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation [...] and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know". Today - at a time when m...

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Main Author: Castelfranchi Yurij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sissa Medialab 2005-09-01
Series:JCOM: Journal of Science Communication
Online Access:http://jcom.sissa.it/editorial/edit0403.pdf
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