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THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE FACTOR OF UNDERSTANDING IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS

G.Ya. SHEVCHENKO1
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-9266
О. MARCHENKO1
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7665-7832
S.E. SHABLII1
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-6902
1 Association Noosphere, Dnipro, Ukraine

Nauka naukozn. 2023, 1(119): 81101
https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2023.01.081

Section: Vital Problems of Modern Science
Language: English
Abstract: The article contains results of analysis of science communication (SC) that takes place between such actors as science, business, government and society. In particular, the communication gap between the above-mentioned actors is investigated. The relevance of this topic is proved by numerous publications of national and foreign researchers. It is known that the success of communication largely depends on the understanding and perception of the information message (IM) that is sent to the recipient. Their absence leads to communication gaps, which reduces the effectiveness of science communications up to complete misunderstanding. The aim of the study is to identify and structure such gaps, as well as to find ways to overcome them in order to increase the efficiency and successful design of scientific communications. The empirical basis of the study is the scientific works of leading domestic and foreign scientists. The research methods are the principle of ascent from the abstract to the concrete (Hegelian principle), as well as general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, generalization, scientific deduction and induction. The conducted research demonstrates that the difference in mental models and thesauri of communicants leads to communicative gaps in understanding — representational gaps, which in foreign literature are termed as rGaps. Such gaps occur when the communicators give the information message a meaning that the recipients do not realize, thus creating a conflict in the meaning and value of the transmitted information. It is concluded that the design of a successful SC should take into account the understanding factor along with its accompanying fascination. Mechanisms and techniques that contribute to the elimination of representational gaps are proposed, which in some cases make it possible to find a solution to the problem of understanding in the SC.

Keywords: noosphere, science communication, communication gaps, gaps in understanding, understanding of the information message, fascination, representative gap, perception gap.

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