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Aug 05, 2026 es Practice Insight

Recycling detectives: an intergenerational play experience at Universum, the Science Museum

by Ingrid Guadalupe Hernández-Gómez , Ms Cristina Hernández-Martínez , Dr Norma Angélica Corado-Nava , Ms María Emilia Beyer-Ruíz

Recycling detectives is an intergenerational educational activity offered by the children’s area at Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), designed to teach children and their families about the recycling process for Tetra Pak® containers. This text describes the pedagogical criteria that guided its design and presents the results of a formative evaluation based on direct observation to analyze interactions, emotions, and knowledge gained during the experience. The findings show that play, as a legitimate form of learning, facilitates intergenerational cooperation, stimulates emotions, and promotes environmental thinking from an early age.

Volume 9Issue 22026

Nov 19, 2025 pt Article

Environmental Communication in Brazil: a plural and diverse area

by Eloisa Beling Loose

This article maps the use of the term “Environmental Communication” in academic articles and postgraduate research within the context of Brazilian scholarship. While the circulation of environmental discourses has grown in professional settings, academic development in the field has not kept pace. There has been progress in epistemological debates surrounding environmental journalism, but this remains limited and needs to be expanded to other subfields. Concurrently, forms of communication employed by activists, social movements, traditional communities, and Indigenous peoples - who advocate for alternative relationships with nature - can be observed. Although these groups may not explicitly adopt the term 'environmental,' their communicative practices align with the principles of Latin American environmentalism.

Volume 8Issue 022025

Mar 06, 2025 pt Article

Does demystifying arthropods on Twitter work? The opinion of the followers of the #TrupeNaturalista.

by Sávio Cavalcante , Vanessa F. Guimarães

The “Trupe Naturalista” is a group of Brazilian science communicators that operates on the social network Twitter, creating content and interacting with the public. The present study aimed to investigate whether interaction with these communicators can alter the perception of followers about arthropods. To this end, followers answered an online questionnaire informing about their profile, interests, motivations, interactions, use of the platform and perceptions about these stigmatized animals. The results indicate that the contact with the science communicators was able to positively change the behavior of the respondents regarding arthropods, reducing their aversion, and increasing their interest in nature.

Volume 8Issue 012025

May 13, 2024 es Editorial

Environment and science communication

by Luisa Massarani , Ana Claudia Nepote , Carina Cortassa , Martha Marandino , Susana Herrera

The environmental dimension goes through different aspects linked to health, biodiversity, well-being and sustainability of human and non-human life. Although these are manifested in several regions of the world, Latin America has been particularly affected. In this context, science communication becomes even more necessary, but also challenging. It was this context that motivated us to make the call for this special issue of JCOM Latin America on the environment and science communication, which we present in this editorial.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

May 06, 2024 pt Article

Brazilian climate crisis researchers and their understanding of the communication processes with society

by Vanessa de Cássia Witzki Colatusso , Myrian Regina Del Vecchio-Lima

In this article, we address the interdisciplinary problem of climate change, with emphasis on the interface between Science, Environment and Communication. We understand that climate crisis researchers are important to making their studies understandable to society and conveying information about the urgency of the issue. In 2021, we interviewed 15 researchers to understand how they perceive themselves as disseminators of their knowledge and understand communication actions to cope with the situation. The interpretative analysis was operationalized by thematic categories. The results point to a lack of scientific dissemination practices by researchers, who prefers to be mediated by communication professionals.The results also point to an instrumental understanding of the communication processes.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

Apr 29, 2024 pt Article

Child participation in science communication about biodiversity

by Marcelo Kei Sato , Alessandra F. Bizerra

This study examines the regulations and modes of child participation in the co-production of radio and audiovisual media within the framework of a conservation project for the Vinaceous-breasted Amazon parrot, involving various local stakeholders. Drawing upon Cultural Studies and with a focus on participatory actions, audiovisual records of co-creation activities and their outputs were analyzed. Four main modes of child participation emerged: (1) contextualized, (2) symbolic, (3) technical-aesthetic, and (4) identity-related. This research represents a significant, albeit initial, step in systematizing a dialogue among the fields of participatory science communication research and practice, childhood studies, and biodiversity conservation.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

Apr 08, 2024 pt Article

In what ways are complex topics such as biodiversity and conservation addressed in immersive exhibitions?

by Maria Paula Correia de Souza , Martha Marandino

Biodiversity and conservation are very popular terms that encompass different kinds of content, and addressing them in educational contexts is challenging. We assume the importance of promoting access to more complex definitions and content on these topics, contributing to the expansion of a reliable repertoire of terms and multifaceted ideas, as well as encouraging engagement with environmental issues. In this article, we discuss how these themes are represented in two immersive exhibitions in Botanical Gardens. To do so, we use Basil Bernstein’s Pedagogic Discourse model, with emphasis on the relationship between discourses from different areas of knowledge and/or forms of knowing (interdisciplinarity). It is considered that a higher degree of interdisciplinarity enhances more multifaceted and complex messages about biodiversity and conservation. The findings reveal that exhibition design plays an important role in expanding interdisciplinarity, and that the context in which the exhibitions are produced and presented also has a significant influence, contributing in different ways to providing access to the complexity of ideas surrounding these themes.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

Mar 18, 2024 es Article

Environmental Journalism from a Local Perspective in Mexico: Perspectives, Needs, and Challenges

by Isaac Comonfort-Galindo , Ana Claudia Nepote

The present study mapped local media outlets in Michoacán, Mexico, prioritizing science and environmental topics. The work was conducted from February to July 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-two digital media outlets were identified that regularly address environmental and/or science approaches. A survey was conducted with communication and journalism professionals in Michoacán to understand perspectives on specialized journalism in the region. Addressing the challenges requires the reactivation of collaboration networks and medium- to long-term financing strategies to allow for the consolidation of existing initiatives.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

Mar 11, 2024 es Practice Insight

REMARCO network: science and communication in addressing marine-coastal stressors.

by Laura Brenes-Alfaro , Daniel Carrasco-Palma

This article presents the experience of collaborative and interdisciplinary work between scientists and communicators, in the framework of the Marine-Coastal Stressors Research Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (REMARCO), created in 2018. It reflects on the actions achieved since its creation, and the dynamics established between the scientific and communication groups. It is concluded that the collaborative work has allowed scientists to learn how to disseminate the results of their research, while communicators acquire technical knowledge on the problem of marine-coastal stressors, achieving synergies for the benefit of scientific dissemination; with improvement areas that should be solved soon.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

Feb 29, 2024 pt Article

Mapping disinformation about the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: a bibliometric analysis of an incipient field of research

by Krystal Urbano , Thaiane Oliveira , Simone Evangelista , Luisa Massarani

In this article, we carry out a bibliometric analysis of studies carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean on environmental disinformation. Our corpus consisted of 51 articles, identified in the Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions and Scielo databases. The results show continued growth in the production of scientific articles on misinformation and the environment after 2016, with climate change as a recurring theme. They also point to an increase in interest in the topic in the area of Communication & Information. It can also be seen that the field is in an early stage of development, however, it has an international and interdisciplinary character.

Volume 7Issue 012024Medioambiente y divulgación de la ciencia / Meio ambiente e divulgação da ciência (Medioambiente/Meio ambiente)

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