科学ミスコミュニケーション発生メカニズムの探求

摘要

科学ミスコミュニケーションには，研究成果の普及を阻害するという観点と，異なる領域の研究者間の協働を困難にするという観点がある．前者は，先端科学技術研究の成果がマスコミや一般市民（納税者）から正当に評価をされないと，研究開発に投入される資金を獲得できなくなるという可能性をはらむ．後者は，科学技術の発展に伴い研究領域の専門化・細分化が進展した結果，自領域内での研究成果を積み重ねることに努力を傾注している研究者が他領域研究者と科学コミュニケーションをとることが困難になり，その結果，複合領域研究が成り立たなくなるという可能性をはらむ．%The science miss-communication, or inability to disseminate scientific knowledge and ideas among scientific communities and/or the whole society, should inevitably hinders their utilization, which eventually deteriorate the quality of the inter-disciplinary research activities. Such miss-communication would results in the negative outcomes that the tax money investigated into the scientific research will not be plowed back to society. This research explores the ways to prevent the scientific miss-communication by inquiring into its causes. As the initial stage of the exploration, we have been collecting and analyzing cases of scientific miss-communication by interviewing eleven scientists from a variety of disciplines using the critical incident technique. Through the analysis using three dimensions of "recipient attribute", "breadth", and "depth" of communication, we identified that perceived causes and solutions differ depending upon the recipient attribute, width reflects the initiator's attribute and experiences, and the depth depends on the relationships with the recipient.