The knowledge deficit model is a diffusionist concept of public communication of science that incorporates a notion of the public as passive and whose “default ignorance and hostility to science can be counteracted by appropriate injection of science communication” (Bucchi & Trench, 2008: 58).
Introduction Around the time that former U.S. president Donald Trump was elected to office in 2016, and after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, many commentators claimed that our world had entered what they dubbed the “post-truth era” (Ball, 2017; Blackburn, 2019; d’Ancona, 2017; Rowland, 2018).
On August 4th, 2020, a devastating explosion at the port of Beirut resulted in the loss of lives and widespread damage.