Volume 3,Issue 8
A Paradigm of China's Space News Releasing from “Delivering Achievement” to “Sharing Knowledge” and “Developing Empathy” under Popular Science Background: A Case Study on the Video Series of the Great Power's Spacecrafts
News reports about China’s aerospace industry have been focusing on achievements, which gives rise to problems of “cognitive barriers” and “value disconnecting.” These problems may influence the dissemination effects not only of popular science on the quality development of talents, but also the deep connection and shared feelings between the nation and the public. Taking the China Space News on “the Great Power’s Spacecrafts,” video series of popular science as a case study, this paper tries to give a new paradigm of China space news, by examining how it shares knowledge to public, how it gives lectures on popular science, how it establishes connections between aerospace technology and the public through “developing empathy,” and how it makes audience be part of lecture.
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