Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival

Ana Margarida Sardo; Ann Grand

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Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival

Ana Margarida Sardo, Ann Grand

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Abstract

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this commentary, we explore the factors that contributed to festival goers’ choice to attend science-based events at a summer cultural festival. We evaluated the impact of such events on the audiences: their levels of engagement, reasons for participation, and their views on and reactions to the events. Presented with a variety of cultural events, attendances at science-based events were strong, with high levels of enjoyment and engagement with scientists and other speakers. Moreover, audiences saw science not as something distinct from “cultural” events but as just another option: Science was culture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-260
Number of pages	10
Journal	Science Communication
Volume	38
Issue number	2
Early online date	18 Mar 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547016632537
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016
Externally published	Yes

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