Análise de possibilidades e limites de comunicação pública da ciência realizada através do Laboratório de Poluição Atmosférica Experimental da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo / Possibilities and limits analyzes of Science Public Communication by Laboratory of Experimental Atmospheric Pollution from the University of São Paulo

Monica Lupião Lobarinhas

INTRODUCTION: Many authors have stated that the popularization of the science to the nonacademic public allows a more effective performance in educational, cultural or health-related interventions that can occur. OBJECTIVE: Analyze the acting possibilities and limits of a scientific production laboratory with the importance of the Laboratory of Experimental Air Pollution (LPAE) from the University of São Paulo Faculty of Medical Sciences in Public Communication of the Science. METHODS: The qualitative research was the methodological reference adopted in this study. All papers published by LPAE, from January 2006 to June 2007 were analyzed; fourteen LPAE´s researchers were interviewed; nineteen journalists that contacted LPAE for accomplishment of interviews that involve this laboratory between January of 2006 and June of 2007 answered a questionnaire; and environmental education actions accomplished by LPAE were surveyed. RESULTS: The science public communication accomplished by LPAE happens through all of the nonacademic media communication vehicles in a constant way. The perception of the disclosure by the nonacademic press is very discordant among the researchers group. Certain dissatisfaction is manifested by some of the researchers, indicating that they would like a more expressive insertion. Some of them assume that all researches can be transmitted to the nonacademic public, while some of them declare that there are limits to the transmission of that information. The analysis of the relationship between journalists and scientists reveals important conflict points. The scientists criticize the journalistsunpreparedness to the interview. Journalists indicate that they perceive an unbalanced relationship, where the scientists put themselves in a prominence place. Among the journalists the notion of right of the media emerges, to be exercised in order to transpose the barriers between the academy and the other members of the society. They point out difficulties related to the comprehension of the language used and the understanding of scientific process, distrust of the academy in relation to the press, little opening of the scientists to other opinions and difficult access to the scientist. The LPAE actions in partnership with Basic Schools have reached total or partially their objectives with both the teachers and the students. This study proposes a subcategory of the public communication of science denominated education public participation model. Both teachers of elementary schools and scientists demonstrated interest in working together. However the actions only happened when intermediated by a professional linked to both LPAE and the school. CONCLUSION: Along its existence, the LPAE remains in the nonacademic media in a constant way. Several tension points emerged in declarations of both journalists and scientists allowing an evaluation of the main subjects that permeate the relationships among these professionals It is possible and of interest to the teachers and scientists the exchange in a continuous way between the scientific production centers and the basic school. However the public schools net structuring does not stimulate such practice, hindering the implantation or the continuity of initiatives of this load. To make them viable, it is necessary a responsible professional for the intermediation of the process.

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