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  • Big data and digital methods in science communication research: opportunities, challenges and limits
    Date: 06/21/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Computational social science represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reality based on advanced computer tools. From economics to political science, from journalism to sociology, digital approaches and techniques for the analysis and management of large quantities of data have now been adopted in several disciplines. The papers in ... »
  • Evaluating Impact And Quality Of Experience In The 21st Century: Using Technology To Narrow The Gap Between Science Communication Research And Practice
    Date: 09/29/2015
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Access to high quality evaluation results is essential for science communicators to identify negative patterns of audience response and improve outcomes. However, there are many good reasons why robust evaluation linked is not routinely conducted and linked to science communication practice. This essay begins by identifying some of the common ... »
  • Highlighting The Value Of Impact Evaluation: Enhancing Informal Science Learning And Public Engagement Theory And Practice
    Date: 09/29/2015
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    King et al. [2015] argue that ‘emphasis on impact is obfuscating the valuable role of evaluation’ in informal science learning and public engagement (p. 1). The article touches on a number of important issues pertaining to the role of evaluation, informal learning, science communication and public engagement practice. In this critical response ... »
  • Listening and empowering: children and science communication
    Date: 11/12/2013
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    In the editorial of this issue of JCOM, we underline how children are on one hand one of the main target group for science communication, and on the other hand a largely excluded group in the shift from a linear diffusion model to a dialogic model of science communication. In this series of comments, stimulated by the EU - FP7-Science in society ... »
  • The Art of Science Communication
    Date: 03/21/2013
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    The science & art research played an important role in the topics covered by JCOM because actually the convergence of languages and themes of art and science increasingly continue to act synergistically in the most diverse knowledge fields. ... »
  • The Frontiers of Dialogue
    Date: 03/21/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    “Dialogue” is the trendy word of the moment. The word “dialogue” can be found in the call to access European funding, in the works of Science Communication scholars, in presentations of science education projects, in the mission of new science centres. “Dialogue” is also a word reported by mass media regarding politicians' and scientists' speeches ... »