Dr. Arlyn Orellana, academic from the Department of Social Sciences at ULS, will present: “Values ​​associated with technology in relation to people with disabilities.

Scientific communication has been gaining more and more ground in different media, thanks to the work of communicators and researchers who see an urgent need for the scientific community to disseminate its work to the community and how it is behind much of what that surrounds us and impacts our daily lives.

Along these lines, the Multidisciplinary Meeting of Science and Communication is being held for the first time, which is organized by the Alberto Hurtado University (UAH) and will take place this Friday, October 26. The event will bring together prominent personalities from the academic world, research, communication and scientific dissemination. The University of La Serena will be part of this meeting, being represented by Dr. Arlyn Orellana, academic from the Department of Social Sciences, who was selected to participate and present at the “Research in Public Communication of Science” table, with the presentation titled: “Values ​​associated with technology in relation to people with disabilities.”

Dr. Orellana is a journalist from the University of La Serena and has a Master's degree in Social Communication of Science and a Doctor in Plurality, Margination and Integration from the University of Salamanca, Spain. The motivation for her work is to understand science and technology, the world from a scientific-technological point of view and to bring these supposed “two cultures” into dialogue, humanities and social sciences on the one hand and the exact sciences on the other.

“It is essential that journalists who are in training at our University understand and know about these issues, know the language they must use to transmit, to send these messages, in different groups with different characteristics in order to build a society for all” , he pointed.

Dr. Orellana's work is multidisciplinary and focuses on the values ​​presented in the Chilean press in relation to people with disabilities and science and technology. Specifically in how we associate values ​​with certain technologies, and how we end up associating those values ​​with the people who use those technologies, “and how that affects society, the relationship between us, whether the technology prospers or not, how to improve society. towards greater inclusion,” he added.

More information about the Meeting and program: http://mailing.uahurtado.cl/2018/comunicaciones/invitaciones/encuentro_mc2/.

Source: VIPULS