Scientific information on environmental issues in the age of digital media

- A critical analysis of the actual management model of scientific information  and some possible alternative models through collaborative platforms.

Author: [Mariano Senna da Costa], September 2006

Certified by: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hasebrook 1st. Thesis Adviser, International School of New Media / Luebeck, Germany Prof. Dr. Richard Scotti 2nd Thesis Advisory, International School of New Media / Luebeck, Germany

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Abstract
This paper consists of an investigation about the past, present and future of internal structures and processes of scientific information production and its management, with the focus on the analysis at institutions of environmental studies. Considering three dimensions of the communication process at academic institutions (technological, cultural and institutional), the research drawn near a philosophical review about some relations (economic, political and social) among these dimensions and therefore examine some aspects of the specialized information production and distribution.

Index
1. - Preface - The idea of this research 2. - Introduction 3. - Short review of philosophical aspects of Science, Technology and Social Communication
 * 3.1 - Technology's Interrelations
 * 3.2 - Science as a New Religion
 * 3.3 - Characteristics of Contemporary Science and Technology
 * 3.4 - Impacts of Science and Technology
 * 3.5 - Why Environmental Issues?
 * 3.6 - Information / Power / Society Control
 * 3.7 - The hypothesis of this work

4. - Subject and Methodology

5. - Results and early conclusions

6. - General Conclusion

7. - Further Research

8. - Bibliography

9. - Attachments