{"id":26554,"date":"2025-06-09T05:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=26554"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:17:44","slug":"information-disorder-in-science-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-51\/information-disorder-in-science-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Information disorder in science communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">In an era saturated with misinformation and cognitive overload, science communication must undergo a paradigm shift. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">Despite high public trust in science, Estonians rarely integrate scientific knowledge into daily decision-making\u2014a dissonance that weakens democratic resilience. Ebe Pilt argues that current communication practices, rooted in outdated deficit models and driven by mass media logics, often fail to reach those who need evidence most. Instead of mere dissemination, effective science communication should prioritise timing, relevance, audience specificity, and trust-building. Deliberative, targeted formats\u2014what Pilt calls \u201cprecision communication\u201d\u2014are vital, especially in crises where science must inform urgent choices. Structural reform is needed: from funding criteria to institutional roles. If science is to guide society wisely, it must escape its echo chamber and speak meaningfully where decisions are made.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era saturated with misinformation and cognitive overload, science communication must undergo a paradigm shift. Despite high public trust in science, Estonians rarely integrate scientific knowledge into daily decision-making\u2014a dissonance that weakens democratic resilience. Ebe Pilt argues that current communication practices, rooted in outdated deficit models and driven by mass media logics, often fail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"class_list":["post-26554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-51","topic-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26555,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554\/revisions\/26555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}