Emphasizing the role of the media in popularizing science and technology
At the conclusion of the Nano and media festival, Dehghani announced the formation of a specialized association of science and technology media activists
The closing ceremony of the 9th Nano and Media Festival was held with the presence of the Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, and outstanding media activists were honored for promoting the nanotechnology discourse.
According to the Communication and Information Center in the Vice Presidency of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, Ruhollah Dehghani, the Vice President of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, during a speech at this ceremony, referring to the role of the media as a catalyst for change, said: The role of media is to create awareness and they play the popularization of technologies well and their role in stabilizing and promoting technologies is a key role. When the flow of science and technology becomes popular, in addition to helping to promote this technology, its market also develops and prospers.
Referring to the role of media activists in producing useful and informative content for the upliftment and health of society, Dehghani said: producing healthy, useful and media-rich food, as well as distributing and delivering it to the people of society, is of great importance, as well as producing and supplying healthy food. It has because nowadays people make decisions with their knowledge and one of the foundations of science and cognitive technologies is the media.
Emphasizing that today is the era of thoughts and cognitions based on media content, Dehghani continued: The advancement of technologies and the development of communication and media tools has caused most of human decisions to be made based on the cognitions that receives from the media.
Referring to the role of the media in promoting science and technology and popularizing specialized knowledge, the head of the National Elites Foundation said: Paying attention to the media's role for the public and popularizing knowledge and technologies is a priority issue and a very serious concern at the highest levels of the world. Scientific foundations in the world are seriously investing in the issue of public promotion and popularization of science. What people know about science is so important that it can change the direction of a knowledge or technology so as to raise or lower a scientific field.
He added: "The media can show an issue that did not exist as if it was done in the best way, or vice versa, show the scientific work that was done in the best way, as if it did not exist."
The vice president of science, technology and knowledge-based economy, emphasizing the necessity of the media to promote and popularize all technological fields, added: the staff of the Nano headquarters should be appreciated for the role of the media in publicizing a science and creating demand for it in the society. They understood and supported the role of the media in the development of nanotechnology.
According to Dehghani, the media can play a serious role in the society, it also informs the society and illuminates the path and assigns tasks for people to determine their path.
He stated that if the discourse of Nano today in the society has become a public demand and has a serious role in various fields from economy and industry to politics, it is owed to the media, and said: Science and technology media from specialists and scientists, technologists and investors protects governments and managers in big decisions and moves. The media can make one market prosperous or make another market less prosperous; Therefore, publicizing knowledge is of special importance, and we believe that if our country has achieved success in nanotechnology today, and today experts, scientists, students, industry owners and investors have turned to this field, it is due to the media and those who produce and publish good news.
Dehghani stated that the Center for the Development of Strategic Technologies with the aim of developing technology alongside the Science Foundation, which has scientific development on its agenda, welcomes the support and assistance of science and technology media in all technological fields, and stated: Today, in addition to nanotechnology, other priority and strategic technologies also need the role of the media to become public and demand from the people. There are 10 strategic technology development headquarters operating under the Strategic Technologies Development Center in the Vice Presidency of Science.
The Vice President of Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy announced his full readiness to support and accompany media activists and promote the discourse of science, technology and knowledge-based economy with the help of the powerful arm of the media and added: In this regard, the Special Association of Science and Technology Journalists, which is a platform for promoting the discourse in science and technology, and in the form of this forum, effective and capable media activists, with financial support and facilities, should seriously follow the path of promoting and popularizing science and technology. In the form of this forum, science and technology media activists gather so that the flow of science and technology continues with more momentum.
Dehghani also pointed to the support and empowerment program for science and technology media activists and stated: the discussion of education for the training of science and technology media activists, their support and companionship in the form of the program for the empowerment of science and technology media activists will be implemented in the next month and with the establishment of the association Especially for science and technology journalists, the support will be placed in the path of promoting science and technology discourse. This association will give a special organization and identity to the media activists of science and technology so that they can have more influence in the society.
It should be noted that in this ceremony, journalists and media managers active in promoting the discourse of nanotechnology were honored by the vice president of science, technology and knowledge-based economy and the secretary of the Nano and micro technology development headquarters.
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