Scientific and Parascientific Communication
There is an increasing need for scholars and scientists to not only conduct research that has a significant impact on society but also to communicate that research widely. Such research outreach also contributes to engaging wide, diverse audiences. As such, the discursive practices have become more...
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| description | There is an increasing need for scholars and scientists to not only conduct research that has a significant impact on society but also to communicate that research widely. Such research outreach also contributes to engaging wide, diverse audiences. As such, the discursive practices have become more and more complex, multimodal, and multimedia-based for scholars and scientists. Scientific communication is currently shared to a great extent with peers in technology-mediated contexts, which allows formal scientific publications to be opened to public viewing. Alongside this so-called “primary output” (Puschmann 2015), new ways, modes, and discourses are being used to bring science closer to a lay audience and promote citizen participation. The affordances of existing and emergent platforms are fostering a change in audience roles, and with it, the erosion of boundaries between scientific communities and the general public, entailing the dissemination of scientific information and knowledge beyond the former (Trench 2008). We are thus witnessing the development of discursive practices which may be referred to as instances of “parascientific communication”. These practices transcend previously well-delimited communities and spheres of communication. Parascientific genres are evolving based on authoritative or expert knowledge (communicated through conventional, sanctioned scientific genres) but not subjected to the filters of internal, formal science communication (Kelly and Miller 2016). This Special Issue seeks to gain a better understanding of the purposes and specific features of these new scientific communication practices. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-810322024-03-27T16:34:33Z Scientific and Parascientific Communication Mur-Dueñas, Pilar Lorés, Rosa preprints open science science communication social media Total SciComm COVID-19 health communication user-generated content reader comments vaccines vaccine denial conspiracy theories digital news articles citizens’ agentive power parascientific genres pseudoscience COVID-19 information knowledge communication knowledge-building processes multimodality social media engagement discourse analysis digital humanities textometry authority legitimacy blog posts dialogicity identity personal vs. institutional blogs graphical abstracts genre hybridity stylisation interpretive complexity visual literacy n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general There is an increasing need for scholars and scientists to not only conduct research that has a significant impact on society but also to communicate that research widely. Such research outreach also contributes to engaging wide, diverse audiences. As such, the discursive practices have become more and more complex, multimodal, and multimedia-based for scholars and scientists. Scientific communication is currently shared to a great extent with peers in technology-mediated contexts, which allows formal scientific publications to be opened to public viewing. Alongside this so-called “primary output” (Puschmann 2015), new ways, modes, and discourses are being used to bring science closer to a lay audience and promote citizen participation. The affordances of existing and emergent platforms are fostering a change in audience roles, and with it, the erosion of boundaries between scientific communities and the general public, entailing the dissemination of scientific information and knowledge beyond the former (Trench 2008). We are thus witnessing the development of discursive practices which may be referred to as instances of “parascientific communication”. These practices transcend previously well-delimited communities and spheres of communication. Parascientific genres are evolving based on authoritative or expert knowledge (communicated through conventional, sanctioned scientific genres) but not subjected to the filters of internal, formal science communication (Kelly and Miller 2016). This Special Issue seeks to gain a better understanding of the purposes and specific features of these new scientific communication practices. 2022-05-06T11:22:49Z 2022-05-06T11:22:49Z 2022 book ONIX_20220506_9783036538211_98 9783036538211 9783036538228 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81032 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5374 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5374 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3822-8 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3822-8 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036538211 9783036538228 132 Basel open access |
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| title | Scientific and Parascientific Communication |
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| topic | preprints open science science communication social media Total SciComm COVID-19 health communication user-generated content reader comments vaccines vaccine denial conspiracy theories digital news articles citizens’ agentive power parascientific genres pseudoscience COVID-19 information knowledge communication knowledge-building processes multimodality social media engagement discourse analysis digital humanities textometry authority legitimacy blog posts dialogicity identity personal vs. institutional blogs graphical abstracts genre hybridity stylisation interpretive complexity visual literacy n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general |
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