Engineering Technological News Research On A Public Understanding Of Science Perspective

Scientific technology has become a significant part of social development in all aspects of aviation, communications and transportation, etc. It plays absolutely crucial role in the improvement of science and technology, which has been widely concerned in society. In the disseminating process of scientific and technical information, media plays an essential role. Because the media is the most common access to scientific information and knowledge sources for the general public.Hydraulic engineering tend to be an essential part of the technologic project, not only from technology, but also to serve the technology. The Three Gorges water conservancy project is the most well-known In China, for it is not only the largest water conservancy project, but also a major science and technology projects. So technology news of the Three Gorges Project is an essential part of Three Gorges news' report as its significance.In this paper, as an example of technology news, the Three Gorges Project will be reported in technology news category for water projects, which were analyzed based on content analysis, the theoretical framework, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods; it will focus on analyzing the number of reports, the report genre, reporting methods, topic coverage, report attitudes, report sources, reporting scale, pictures of applications and keywords of the Three Gorges Project.According to the research and study, the topic of TGP technology news topic diversifies, and the news' origin is mainly cited from authoritative sources; the basic report attitude is neutral; technology news did not deviate from the topic. But meanwhile there are also some certain problems; for instance, the quality of scientific literacy reporter and the audience is generally not high enough; sources' origin is limited and there is a certain amount of reports that are reprinted; the language is too specialized, which leads to less public participation in the process of engineering science and technology, etc.In this case, the paper gives some recommendations for scientific literacy audience, science and technology report form, proportion report genre, language expression, problem feedback, interaction and social supervision. Based on the recommendations, it will support to enhance the substantive in other categories of water conservancy news reports by offering relevant references.