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This paper presents the advances of one of the lines of work of the research project "Social communication of science. Challenges and Perspectives in the convergence of languages " (School of Social Communication, Universidad Nacional de Rosario). This work will focus on the link-up between videogames and the model of social communication of science, considered as a relationship that allows the appropriation of science and a process that transforms passive receivers into well informed, active citizens, leading to a democratization of science. Videogames conceived as new media, a concept coined by Lev Manovich, allow the construction and appropriation of meaning by users through the simulation of different situations. They therefore propose a player / viewer that is not reduced to a passive guider of the plot, but rather is an active participant who reflects and appropriates of the game, transforming, adapting and manipulating it. The same properties can be seen in the model of social communication of science, centered in an active citizen who appropriates scientific discourse and problematizes science, this is, someone who is no longer an amateur, as Lafuente puts it, but a 'Tecnocidano' instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a biographical and contextual analysis of the creative processes of leading Argentine scientists: Houssay, Leloir and Milstein. We analyze interviews, biographies, autobiographies and documents (works, speeches, letters) and several sources of information available in different formats: official websites and foundations, interviews, digital and paper texts and documentaries. We emphasize the role of exchanges with specialists as a conditioning factor of creative processes and significant advances in science. The biographical- contextual studies carried out indicate that interactions with teachers, mentors, tutors, colleagues and students favor the development of creativity and scientific activity in the cases analyzed. We also present analysis of other determinants of the creative process: contexts of work, ability to generate resources, educational background, knowledge available, sources of information, emotions, motivations and personality traits. Theoretical issues and previous studies on creativity in science are included in the first part of the text. Then, we describe significant results of the study. Finally, we argue about the relationship between communication, creativity and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper condenses the results of an inter-institutional discussion that began in 2011 within the National University of San Juan (UNSJ). This discussion was about the advisability of creating an interdisciplinary instance, in order to debate about Public Communication of Science and Technology (CPCyT). At the beginning some questions are posed, related to the links between education and CPCyT, the CPCyT anthropological and teleological foundations, the CPCyT as an interdisciplinary field and the notions of science and public communication involved in the CPCyT. We offer some possible answers to the questions posed. Finally we present the Project of a "Program of Public Communication of Science and Technology", to be developed at the San Juan University, its objectives and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]