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  • Trained to interact: echoes from the Workshop SulAmericano de Mediação em Museus e Centros de Ciência
    Date: 05/06/2016
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    The initiatives focusing the professional development of explainers are multiplying around the world, building an informal network of researchers, museums managers and directors, explainers, and regional/continental networks, as THE group, the Thematic Human Interface and Explainers group of Ecsite. The Workshop Sul-Americano de Mediação em Museus ... »
  • From planning to motivations: citizen science comes to life
    Date: 04/20/2016
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    This issue forms Part II of JCOM's collection of articles and essays exploring the field of citizen science. Here I introduce the articles in Part II, outlining how they contribute to our understanding of the ways that volunteers participate in citizen science projects, what motivates this participation and what learning arises as a result of ... »
  • Can We Understand Citizen Science?
    Date: 01/21/2016
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    Citizen science is one of the most dramatic developments in science communication in the last generation. But analyses of citizen science, of what it means for science and especially for science communication, have just begun to appear. Articles in this first of two special issues of JCOM address three intertwined concerns in this emerging field: ... »