Andrea Rubin

University of Ferrara | UNIFE · Department of Human Studies

This study explores the evolving dynamics of vaccine hesitancy and refusal (VHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the shift from a simple dichotomy to a nuanced continuum including cautious acceptance, a «wait and see» approach, and firm refusal. Based on 42 in-depth interviews conducted between August 2021 and March 2023 with 22 vaccine...

Il contributo esamina come la pandemia di Covid-19 abbia esposto la vulnerabilità della scienza di fronte alla politicizzazione e alla disinformazione. Vengono descritti tre principali frame utilizzati dai media per rappresentare la pandemia e come queste narrazioni abbiano contribuito a creare contrapposizione tra i cittadini. Il capitolo sottolin...

This Collection considers the noticeable change in the role played by scientists in the public sphere. Scientists' mobilisation, their public communication role and growing public interest in issues of broad technoscientific concern are the object of study for various disciplines. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications invites path-breaking...

La percezione pubblica dell’IA è ancora poco esplorata. Eppure gli italiani si aspettano una regolamentazione trasparente che renda l’innovazione più sicura e fruibile.

Il rapporto tra nuove generazioni, scienza e tecnologia è stato oggetto d’interesse crescente negli ultimi decenni e ha visto l’insorgenza di numerose iniziative volte a indagare i risultati scolastici, le motivazioni e, più in generale, l’orientamento nei confronti delle attività di ricerca e delle organizzazioni scientifiche da parte dei giovani....

The field of science communication is constantly evolving and searching for new ways and tools to improve its practice. Several studies have focused on how people are reached, the existing communication gaps and challenges and how communication can change people’s understanding, perception and use of science. However, a key element, namely, the pub...

La ventesima edizione dell’«Annuario Scienza Tecnologia e Società» si caratterizza per la particolare ricchezza di contenuti, offrendo un’ampia panoramica sulle dinamiche attuali e le tendenze più significative nei rapporti tra scienza, tecnologia e società: percezione pubblica, fiducia verso scienziati e istituzioni di ricerca, fonti di informazio...

Tutte le informazioni e i dati più aggiornati per comprendere meglio il rapporto tra scienza e società I cambiamenti climatici sono un'emergenza globale con manifestazioni sempre più frequenti anche in Italia. Inoltre, la recente destabilizzazione degli equilibri internazionali ha acuito il dibattito sulle fonti di approvvigionamento energetico. È...

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This article investigates the argumentation produced online and offline by hesitators towards the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine through the analysis of (1) interactions on Telegram and (2) a corpus of in-depth interviews with vaccine hesitators. In particular, the study focuses on the argumentative paths and sense-giving processes implemented...

This paper investigates how citizens of five European countries (Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain) enquire about scientific issues, how they rate scientific information on climate change and vaccines in terms of quantity and quality, and their strategies for overcoming perceived defects. We conducted a public consultation involving almo...

Gli italiani sono un popolo scientificamente analfabeta? In che modo si informano su questioni scientifiche e tecnologiche? Quali atteggiamenti hanno nei confronti di temi scientifici come le biotecnologie, i cambiamenti climatici, le vaccinazioni o le medicine alternative e complementari? Quanto investe il nostro Paese nel settore ricerca e svilup...

In the year of the PCST Conference that brings together scholars and experts in public communication of science, Routledge published the new edition of the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, edited by Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench. The book, in its third edition, seeks to update and define the field of study and applic...

This paper investigates the dimensions of trust and the role of information sources and channels in developing differentiated forms of science communication. The discussions from two public consultations carried out in Italy and Slovakia about controversial science-related topics were quali-quantitatively content analysed. The results show that sci...

This book is the result of a two-and-a-halfyear close collaboration between the seven partners of the Erasmus+ KA203 project “Knowledge, beliefs, perceptions about the science of European students (Persist_EU)”. One of the project’s main objectives was to develop a tool to evaluate European students’ initial knowledge when configuring their beliefs...

In the information society and in the complexity that is one of the distinctive features of modernity, the public role of experts has increased considerably. Engineers, doctors, jurists or politicians are increasingly called upon to talk about issues of public relevance. In this historical-cultural context, experts are inclined to undertake public...

Over the past few decades, some institutions and scientists have heralded science communication as the solution to a series of problems: citizens do not know enough of science, hold unscientific beliefs, distrust scientists, are unaware of the benefits of science, are unwilling to pursue careers in science and technology, etc.. Science communicatio...

The last decade had seen an emergence of a new more dynamic and inconsistent media ecosystem. Digital media (i.e. social media) are accused by many independent researchers and influential observers, to have played a significant role in spread of science misinformation. Wide-ranging discussions about so-called ‘post-truth’ or ‘fake news’ phenomena h...

Intervista a Felice Frankel, nota fotografa scientifica, sul ruolo delle immagini nella scienza

Lo studio riporta i risultati di un primo step di una ricerca che si prevede articolata su diversi obiettivi cognitivi, sia di natura tematica sia di tipo metodologico. Ciò che emerge in questa fase – attraverso tecniche di analisi automatizzata dei topic su grandi corpora, avvalendosi degli strumenti della piattaforma TIPS dell’Università di Padov...

In recent years (2017) there has been a significant increase in participation in public science communication activities. An important role is played by scientific museums, exhibitions and science festivals. Through a sample survey, Observa Science in Society studies, every year, the attitudes and behaviors of the public towards science and technol...

GIOVANI AL SUD E IN ITALIA TRA CONTINUITÀ E CAMBIAMENTO Questo contributo adotta la chiave di lettura della continuità e del cambiamento indagando condizioni, percezioni, valori e atteggiamenti dei giovani rispetto a temi di attuale interesse: traguardi di indipendenza, formazione, lavoro, valori, immigrazione e scienza. Trasversalmente a questi am...

Le differenze della condizione giovanile in Italia su base territoriale. Indagine campionaria 2017-2018

Il capitolo offre un excursus sulla comunicazione della scienza in Italia dalla fine del 1800, mettendo in risalto non solo i principali cambiamenti ma anche la percezione del pubblico e sottolineando le principali differenze tra volgarizzazione, divulgazione e comunicazione pubblica della scienza e della tecnologia.

In 1981, Allan Mazur formulated his famous hypothesis: there is a direct relation between media coverage and public reaction against technological issues. Mazur’s hypothesis is exclusively and simply quantitative: the more the media cover a technoscientific issue, the more the public is brought to take a position against them. Few contributions tha...

Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology has been focused on non-experts and mediators. Scientists as communicators has not been explored yet although they are involved in communicative practices. The SHARPER project, in the “European Researchers Night” framework, carried out a study to evaluate the researcher communication strate...

Communicating research. A study on the role of researchers in the public space of communication Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology has been focused on non-experts and mediators. Scientists as communicators has not been explored yet although they are involved in communicative practices. The SHARPER project, in the «European R...

Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) has been focused on non-experts and mediators so far. The role of scientists as communicators has not been extensively explored yet although most of them are involved in communicative practices. To address this issue we have developed a study aimed to evaluate the researcher communic...

Il contributo, a partire dai risultati di una ricerca empirica condotta su un corpus di oltre 8.000 articoli estratti dalle versioni online di quotidiani e riviste di divulgazione scientifica, indaga le rappresentazioni mediali del cibo e dell’alimentazione nel periodo 2010-2016, e riflette sui problemi metodologici che l’analisi testuale deve affr...

PROBLEMI DELL'INFORMAZIONE (Il Mulino) Special Issue

L' articolo offre un confronto critico del concetto di rischio esposto nelle opere, specificatamente dedicate al tema, di Ulrich Beck e Niklas Luhmann. L’idea di effettuare un confronto tra le posizioni esposte dai due sociologi tedeschi pare utile a comprendere il ruolo e la funzione democratizzante promossa da comitati e movimenti civili che si r...

This paper aims to examine the public perception of food safety and the public opinion on science and technology applied to food. In the last years, technology has been increasingly used in food production. Istances of food technology have already been tried: from synthetic-burgers to nano-food. From recent Eurobarometer surveys, it emerged that It...