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Science and journalism at the Festival International (4) and (5)

close my intervention on the conduct of the lineup imminent that I will make the Round Table on Science and journalism at the International Festival in Ferrara (1-3 October). The other episodes are here , here and here .

The lineup is:

1. Science journalism is in crisis? And his difficulties are due to the network?
2. Rules and conventions of traditional scientific journalism
3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media
4. Innovative initiatives
5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and evolution of the relationship between science and society.

Step 4. Innovative initiatives

-blogger-scientists

The blog dedicated to science and medicine have increased substantially in recent years. The most interesting experience is the platform of the "Seed Media Group", "ScienceBlogs.com, launched in 2006 to facilitate interaction between researchers and other communities of science writers.
Some scholars believe that the characteristics of blogs make this instrument particularly suited to dialogue in science communication. The bloggers describe their successful scientific discoveries as an extraordinary and compelling intellectual journey during which they want to share with others the uncertainty and difficulties of cognitive battles they are facing. Everything is very well suited to everyday research. Blogs scientists did not tell us much about the "science ready", but allow us to put hands-on labs in the discussions in real time.
The controversy between scientists and science journalists and bloggers play the similar ones in other fields of journalism: the question about the possibility, capacity and legitimacy on the part of scientists to do without, thanks to the web, as mediators.
The same is true for projects in the network through which scientists and scientific institutions
can directly reach the readers, who tell firsthand details of their work in opposition to scientific information as well always less independent conveyed by mass media.

-initiatives which blurs the line between journalism and PR

A project that is stirring a lively debate in recent times is the site "Futurity.org" presented as the solution to the decline suffered by the scientific journalism in the traditional markets media information. The site is an aggregator of news releases produced by different research centers in America. Unlike similar existing initiatives, such as "EurekaAlert" dell'AAAS, the presentation of content is created with the help of captivating images and following logical reports.
Critics of "Futurity.org" argue that the site shuffles the cards in the corporate communications, public relations and journalism itself. His supporters believe that encourage scientists to communicate directly through the web and reduce the number of intermediate steps is a very positive thing because it finally allows the transmission of "truth" of nature.
The discussion provoked by "Futurity.org" indicates an interesting direction to explore: that of whether journalists "advisers" pro-science and find a new position as corporate communication. The network may select those who believe that their function is to include the information as correctly as possible the discoveries of science from those with a more critical and more consistent with the autonomy of journalism.
The example of "Futurity.org" is also interesting because it shows that scientific institutions are willing to invest in direct communication with the public through the Internet. If the project works, you are willing to do so in order to employ people with the background, skills and beliefs of the characteristics variables science journalist "embedded".
"Futurity.org" Finally it is interesting for our purposes for another reason. The discussion around the features of this site in fact proposes traditional issues: the issue of the accuracy with which they reported the news of science, the debate over who is more entitled to talk about science to the public for non-experts, the idea that there is a connection between science communication and public understanding and appreciation of science. All this takes place within the framework of new media.
The conditions are therefore those of the general pattern of deficits, although they are enriched by considerations of the characteristics of the current context of science communication, such as the confused relationship between public relations professionals and journalists who are becoming less the work of reporters and more than desk and scientists who want to interact directly with the public through new media. It will be interesting to see if the Internet with the results of efforts diffusionist view will be different from those held with traditional media. Scientific Journalism

-non-experts

We have described cases involving mainly scientists and journalists, but the possibility to influence the public debate on science through the production of information that does not come from traditional sources about many other actors, such as pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental associations, environmental groups. In this sense, there are several projects already established. There are successful projects in the health sector through the web 2.0 where patients, doctors, nurses, social workers, are invited to tell their experiences online with the aim to raise public awareness, involve more people in the research , to help families find solutions together with the fatigue of daily contact with loved ones suffering from. The guiding principle of these projects go beyond a passive or active involvement: Requires a real participation based on mutual respect and recognition of different types of knowledge, experience and expertise.

That said, what are the possible scenarios that open to the scientific journalism next few years?
addressed this issue in paragraph 5 of the lineup.

5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and evolution of the relationship between science and society.

The conclusion is that there is no longer a shared agreement on the definition of science journalism. Two large earthquakes have on soil erosion and landslides which historically rested with the rules and conventions of this specialized organization: one was the emergence of a new ecosystem of communications, a problem that concerns all the journalism and the second the changing relations between science and society.

As a result of the birth of the media ecosystem Again, it has become confused in the past the role of scientists and scientific institutions in providing information. The journalism has given as the main impact of erosion of the boundary line between scientists who communicate promotional reasons and journalists themselves.
This issue is related to the fact that the definition of "journalism" in general is expanding to include more and more forms of information production that did not exist until recently.
What is the precise line of demarcation that divides the activities that we call journalism from other forms of communication? Does it exist? I do not know.
I think that in any case is arbitrary and that at this time you are playing a major battle to redefine something that eventually will need to make a decision, a decision that ultimately is social and cultural.
This is all the more reason for science journalism, specializing particularly in crystalline forms and conventions increasingly aligned with the new communication ecosystem. Scientific journalism will continue to exist but will be a different profession from the present. What future will be the result of a review process of the scale that characterized the journalistic credibility in the past. This review should take into account particularly the consumption and use part of the news which is central the role of the network. On the other hand

blogs, websites and social networking increasingly show that many problems of the relationship between science and society can not be reduced solely to the scientific components, but should include broader issues concerning politics, economy , ethics and alternative forms of knowledge in scientific publications.
Enable effective dialogue is to have a sensitivity to listen, take into account the specific context of communication, asking "what" should be informed and "who." All facts that seems obvious but they are not when it comes to information and communication science.
The questions on the crisis science journalism mainly revolve around the survival of journalists born and raised in the press according to logic that are no longer universally valid.
Do not confuse this with the impression that there is more need for professional communicators of science. On the contrary. The application of science and technology in the media, especially to understand the mechanisms and social implications, is more alive than ever and the skills required for the new science journalist are, if anything, even more than in the past. Not enough to be comfortable with neurons, wave functions and protein and be able to produce simplified accounts of the good science and full of metaphors analogies. If you want to continue to tell interesting stories and useful to understand the changes in the relationship between science and society trying to translate into practice the consequences of the reconceptualization of the public gathering of science at the same time challenge the evolution of the media.
The ecosystem of science communicators and science journalists will increasingly be inhabited by a flora and fauna of high biodiversity in a position to experiment and propose new narratives.

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Science and journalism at the Festival International (3)

Third installment of the intervention on the relationship between science and journalism at the meeting to be held in a couple of days in Ferrara in the International Festival. The first episode is here , the second here.

The lineup is as follows:

1. Science journalism is in crisis? And his difficulties are due to the network?
2. Rules and conventions of traditional scientific journalism
3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media
4. Innovative initiatives
5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and evolution of the relationship between science and society.

Step 3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media

The debate on the crisis in science journalism, attributed by many to the Internet, has allowed highlight some limitations of traditional science journalism independent from the network. To these are added to other difficulties due to the actual movement, diffusion and appropriation of knowledge in medicine, science and technology resulting from the use of digital technologies.

a) Problems related to the professional development of independent science journalism on the web:

-cover too wide a range of topics (from anthropology to astrophysics all'alterosclerosi) on which it is impossible for a single individual has the skills and the time needed for the study;

-specialization of scientific disciplines makes it difficult to understand What is really important and what is not from the perspective of research;

-commercialization of research and resulting conflicts of interest;

-Science embargo. The embargo system, namely the fact that some journals send in advance the details and materials of scientific research on the condition that reporters not be published before a certain date, it creates several problems: the almost exclusive monopoly of information from a few journals such as Nature, Science, The Lancet, for which the embargo is essentially a marketing tool. The embargo also depresses original investigative journalistic activities;

-increasing role of PR. Science journalism, in line with a trend that concerns the entire journalism, has gradually weakened in favor of press offices and offices of public relations. To produce the news, journalists are badly paid and poorly equipped rely on press releases or materials placed in the "information kit" well packaged, perhaps enriched by multimedia formats. Those with little time, few resources and often little preparation to study and to compare the official version with independent sources, difficult to place a qualified and credible journalism and a niche in the information world as science journalism suffers from insecurity especially professional who is sweeping the world of communications.

b) Difficulty piattafrome attributed to the spread of multimedia and the growth of scientific information in the network.

-Increased workload to cover the increasing number of output does not match that required a commensurate increase in the recruitment of specialized professionals;

-Pack Journalism. As a result of increased work load and the system of the embargo, the journalists do not have time and are not stimulated to an independent journalistic work. This leads to un'omogenizzazione coverage of scientific information generated primarily through activity-based centralized news desk made from press releases

-Checking facts. The increase in workload due to the spread of multimedia platforms makes it very difficult to verify the reliability of sources and comparing information from various sources;

c) Difficulties associated with the emergence of participatory initiatives of science journalism.

-The health and medicine are the areas in which both academics and politicians are questioning more to understand the use and effects of the Internet as a source of information and scientific communication. Every day millions of people come online to search for topics related to diseases and therapies. Conscious use of the World Wide Web is expected the formation of citizens and patients can be more responsible their own health. The dimensions in which we can articulate the training of medical and scientific citizenship and democratization of scientific communication through the use of the network and its development is a complex issue.
regard to the specific science journalism on the phenomena under discussion are more blogs and corporate communication initiatives that seem to journalistic activities in all respects.

many points of view, the dispute between blogger-scientists and information professionals has been reproduced in terms similar to those in other areas of journalism. This in depth on the next point, which concerns the innovative work of science journalism.

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Science and journalism at the Festival International ( 2)

spend the second point of the lineup that I have promised to adhere to the intervention that will make a few giornao International Film Festival in Ferrara, in the context of the meeting on science and journalism .

The lineup is as follows:

1. Science journalism is in crisis? And his difficulties are due to the network?
2. Rules and conventions of traditional scientific journalism
3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media
4. Innovative initiatives
5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and evolution of the relationship between science and society.

Step 2. Rules and conventions of science journalism

traditional science is written in the papers since their invention and even more when they claim as the main expression of popular culture. The emergence of a new editorial figure, respected and specialized in reporting the facts of science is slow and later. The news

scientific acquires the status of a recognizable type of journalism only towards the end of the First World War. During the '30s we are the first professional associations in the United States and Great Britain. From Anglo-Saxon world is called a model of standards, conventions, practices and relationships that spreads successfully throughout the world and remains unchallenged roughly until the 60s of the twentieth century, when in response to instances of peace movements, environmentalists and anti-militarists began to be told the controversial aspects of scientific development.

Despite more than forty two models of science journalism contend the scene, still prevalent image of the science journalist whose role is to provide assistance in promoting the benefits of science and technology in the name of a overall social progress. From this approach come the reasons why a scientific fact becomes news, "news values" of science journalism, namely the ways in which some facts about the world of science, and not others, find space on the media.

In summary, the role of science journalism and the journalist's traditional science can be described as follows:

a) Functions: science journalists should promote a positive image of science and technology, are mouthpieces of truth in the service of modernity ; their job is to translate and explain the science to minimize distortions from a perfect knowledge. Doing surveys and analysis is not within their duties. Little space is left to the "why" scientists do their work;

b) Practices: symbiosis with the scientific community; alignment with the rhythms of science to be covered, autonomy and distinction from other components of the newsrooms;

c) Sources: scientists and scientific journals, especially those with high impact factors (Nature and Science);

d) newsworthiness criteria: reliability of sources; fascination and distance from daily concerns such as physics, astronomy, geology, the consequences on human health, life sciences, and general knowledge of the importance of the benefits of the advancement of scientific knowledge to society and

) Frames: Frames are strategies Impega by journalists to make a significant fact in the eyes of readers. Frames organize ideas, give emphasis to some aspects and not others, are defined so as to resonate with the backgorund of values, expectations and guidelines for different audiences, enabling rapid identification of the reasons why an issue is important, who can be responsible and to understand what should be done.
The process of construction of the frames is the result of negotiations through which decisions such as position, title, captions, images to accompany an article. Several players are involved in the definition of frames, including journalists, editors, publishers, sources. Overall, the frames have an effect not only in choosing which facts or statements expressed they come from sources selected as newsworthy, but also in the narrative conventions with which the news is reported and the possible impact on public perception.
In traditional science journalism, narrative conventions by which they are covered science and scientists are: inaccessibility, moral superiority, distance from the ordinary things of scientists, science as a finished product, the scientific results as a reliable and objective, science as powerful tool for social transformation and cultural causal relationship between science and technology, and in science as a solitary figure, selfless and passionate seeker truth.

These forms, conventions and practices have generated a number of classical problems of science journalism that has been joined by the new for the evolution of relations between science and society and to the emergence of digital technologies. This is the argument which I will address the third point of my speech.

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science and journalism in Ferrara at the Festival International

On Friday 1 October, as part of initiatives related to International Film Festival in Ferrara, one speaks of science and journalism. The site is located Youcapital press event in which I participate, too.

The abstract I sent to the organizers is the following:

The age in which science journalist enjoyed preferential treatment within the editorial is over. Shrink its space in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV and his narrative authority is disputed by the growing role of public communication that populate the digital ecosystem. Science journalism on the one hand, suffers the consequences of a significant historical reconfiguration is marking the transition from traditional media to online communications and collaboration. Second, those related to the changing relationship between science and society. Yet there is an increasing need for information on topics of science, technology, medicine.
And there is a need for new professionals who know how to untangle the interaction between new media and traditional media. Science journalism can become one of the most vital sectors of journalism in the coming years, as long as bait by the limits of the genre, opens up new stories and accept the logic of networked information.

I think that I will follow the following lineup:

1. Science journalism is in crisis? And his difficulties are due to the network?
2. Rules and conventions of traditional scientific journalism
3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media
4. Innovative initiatives
5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and the evolution of relations between science and society.

Step 1.

For some 'time the crisis of science journalism has become central in discussions between the experts. The past year has been a central topic of the Sixth World Conference of Science Journalists held in July in London. For some, the crisis is seen as an opportunity to rethink the forms, methods and practices of journalism in general. For others it is the end of a gender specialist who has enjoyed some luck in the world of information and that is inexorably moving towards the end.

the World Conference of Science Journalists is much debate of trend in the recruitment and use of specialists information on scientific, medical and technology. The widespread perception, especially in the U.S., is that there is a dramatic reduction in jobs for science journalists in the editorial offices of newspapers, magazines, radio and television. It must be stressed that these perceptions need empirical evidence. In any case, is a type of online discussion with the discussions on a more general crisis in the journalistic profession and, in particular of some of his classics, such as the daily press.
It is no secret that this industry is undergoing unprecedented hemorrhaging jobs.
The business model for print journalism is collapsing a combination of factors: decrease the spread of copies and readers, recession, decline in advertising. This trend is particularly significant for journalists. Science is regarded as a subject specialist, niche. Economic pressures are forcing media organizations to reduce their commitment in dealing with science and cutting jobs on the ground to refocus its priorities around non-specialist subjects.
E 'an approach that considers the scientific information is a luxury good in times of crisis we can not afford. It 'not just short-sighted because it ignores the role that science journalism can and should play in the restructuring of the future of journalism, but also from a short-range point of view is more pragmatic: the stories on climate change, stem cell research, evolution, bio-terrorism, are attractive to readers and selling.
In discussions on the crisis in science journalism, the culprit is often found in Internet and new technologies.

I think the network has caused an employment crisis for traditional science journalists and revealed the limits of the forms and conventions of traditional scientific journalism. They are professionals who have historically defined their working practices particularly in the print world.

one part, this crisis should not be confused with a general crisis of science communication, which is otherwise at a vital and highly developed. There is no comparison, even the recent past, the way in which, through the network, the scientific world interacts with an increasing number of public reasons, among others, which are more detailed than that traditionally allocated to scientific journalism. It 'a very creative and stimulating for scientific journalism. More generally, we are experimenting with new and emerging methods of production and validation of information. We are developing new ways in which journalism, including science journalism, builds his credibility and unpublished reports through negotiations with the sources producing the events and the public consumers of news. In the case of science journalism in these negotiations different than before, a crucial and controversial play the scientists themselves.

other hand, the employment crisis of the figure of a science journalist in the editorial offices of mass media should not be underestimated. Because if it is true that the decline in full-time jobs for science journalists in newsrooms is associated with growth in other areas of scientific communication, new players can not play took over some of the central functions of the journalist.

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Innovation Journalism: A definition

According to a report Finnish 2007 on Innovation, Journalism and Future innovation journalism should combine the methods and approaches of economic journalism, technology and science, but not all.

Innovation journalism is journalism of the progress or change. It covers all Future Work of society, Whether it is Technological, social or artistic by nature. In reality, there is no change Technological That is not
Social and Cultural at the Same Time. Future Work is a concept That Refers To All Those That Explicitly processes try to define the future path of society. (pg. 23)

The question more interesting from theoretical point of view is whether the future of journalism is journalism innovation.

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Science communication is really a discipline?

E 'was published yesterday in the September issue of JCOM , the journal of research in science communication are referred to the Director.

Segnalo commentary dedicated to the state and the future of research in science communication. They have contributed some of the big international companies, including Massimo Bucchi, Brian Trench, Susanna Hornig Priest, Rick Holliman.

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Errors in Alzheimer's front page: the unconvincing mea culpa in the New York Times

Paul Reaburn the Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) Tracker shows the corrections of the New York Times about an article written last August by Gina Kolata reliability of a new predictive test the onset of Alzheimer's.
Kolata wrote that the test "can be 100 percent accurate." The Times has recently reported the approximations and errors in the article. According Reaburn way too soft. You should explicitly say that "The article" When Was Wrong. "

Beyond the substance is an interesting case of how the network through the life of an article you can stretch and allow a kind of peer-reviewed retrospectively. It may be a possible way to improve the quality of science journalism, as it does from the 2006 KSJ Tracker, a service for science journalists created and funded by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT.

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Discussion in Milan on science and scientific media

tonight in Milan present science and the media at the time of globalization .
The appointment is for 8:45 p.m. at the Community Centre in Puecher Via Dini, 7. Moderate
Gianna Milan and involved some high school teachers.

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Contradictions Nova

Elena Comelli Nova on the newsstands now writes an article on recent cases of scientific fraud and how it is changing the work of a scientist. Interview with Peter Greek with reference to the book we wrote together science and media at the time of globalization .

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Call for papers in scientific journals and the Internet Resources on Open Access

If anyone has any research to be presented on Science Journalism nell'era digitale può partecipare a questa call:

‘Science Journalism in a Digital Age’
Special Issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism
Guest Editor: Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University, UK

In taking science journalism as its focus, this special issue of Journalism will seek to contribute to current debates about the ways in which this important genre of reporting is being transformed by the changes ushered in by digital media.
Today it is readily apparent that precisely what counts as ‘science news’ is undergoing dramatic redefinition as the convergence of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media continues apace. The challenges facing the science journalist have always been formidable, of course, but the internet and associated digital technologies are bringing to bear new pressures and constraints – as well as creating fresh opportunities for innovation – deserving of our close attention. While the very future of science journalism is being called into question by some, others point to alternative approaches to science reporting that are flourishing online.
In exploring these concerns, this special issue’s agenda is informed by a sense of urgency. At a time when many news organizations are under intense financial pressure to trim or reduce expenditure on specialist, investigative reporting, it is all too often the case that science news is regarded as expendable. In the eyes of some, it is a luxury increasingly difficult to justify when other types of news will be more popular with audiences (and thus advertisers). CNN’s decision to cut its entire science, technology and environment news staff, for example, provoked widespread alarm when it was announced in 2008. Few commentators failed to note the irony that science issues – such as climate change, stem cell research, evolution and bio-terrorism – were proving sufficiently controversial to attract intense news coverage at the time.
Accordingly, a guiding theme of the special issue is that current assessments of the news media’s public responsibilities in a democracy can be enriched by inquiries into the changing nature of science journalism. Possible topics to be examined may include:
• The political economy of science journalism
• Journalists’ uses of digital technologies in science reporting
• Rethinking the news values of science coverage
• Scientists as news sources and the politics of expertise
• The framing of controversy in science stories
• The impact of blogging on science news
• Audience perceptions of science news on the web
• Science journalism and social networking
Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 250 words by email to Stuart Allan (sallan@bournemouth.ac.uk). A selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper according to the journal’s Notes for Contributors. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will be subjected to peer review.
Timeline
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October, 2010; deadline for submission of articles: 31 December, 2010. Final revised papers due: March, 2011. Publication: Volume 12, No. 7
Stuart Allan’s science-related publications include Environmental Risks and the Media (co-edited, 2000), Media, Risk and Science (2002), and Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication (co-authored, 2009). Recent co-written journal articles have appeared in New Genetics and Society (2005), Science Communication (2005), Health, Risk & Society (2007), Public Understanding of Science (2009), and Journal of Risk Research (2010).

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Posted book Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography . There are more than 1,100 references to articles and books dealing with the issue of open access from different points of view. JCOM, the magazine of which I am director, 4 citations.

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We have never been anti-psychiatry

From the website of the Mental Health Forum a video of Franco Basaglia make it quite clear that what happened in Trieste with the definitive end of the asylum has never had anything to do with the anti-psychiatry.

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latest issue of Public Understanding of Science Oscar Ricci published a research about how technology is represented on the popular science monthly Focus, Quark, T3, and Jack Explora.

apparent that the two frames are the most frequent: the technology does not yet exist but that the same is presented as if it were already on the market (frame "vaporware"); the report that certain technologies have with other technologies (the frame "Relationship Between technologies").

technology is represented both positively and negatively. Media coverage of these monthly suffers from Orientalism technology ", that is always seen as something that can be dangerous and terrible contemporanemante as well as open the doors to a wonderful future.

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Italian magazine about technology in China is no place for science communicators

By 2020 China wants to double the number of professionals engaged in communicating science. The news is reported on Scidev.net.
struck by two things: 1

. Numbers. By 2020, according to the "2010-2020 China's Popular Science Talent Plan" must reach the target of 4 (four) million science communicators.

2. A force such as China aims not only to science and technology to establish itself as a great power in the coming years, but in a structured and solid communication.
These data are the best practical response to those who accuse the passage of smoke and rhetoric of the knowledge society and the role of the interconnection between research, development and communication with the reconfiguration of the powers of the twenty-first century.

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Scientific journalism:

Science journalism has been defined historically, especially since the Second World War onwards, as that activity is to bring professional media the findings of science in a language understandable to non-experts.

This goal has led to specific production routines: primarily the practice of waiting for the publication of papers in scientific journals by title through the peer-review process before you get out the news on radio, newspapers, television.

The context of production of scientific knowledge and its ethical, political, social interests are not part of traditional science journalism.

Alice Bell wrote an interesting post about a possible science journalism upstream. In short we must talk, Alice said, not only of the "science ready" but the "science-in-action", the science in the making.

elements of narrative proposed by Alice: the science lab, and more generally the context in which the action is the scientists' research, is as a theater, this scene scientists "are interesting," "wonder", "I'm excited" by something and not so anonymous, "found that", "are working for." Focusing more on the process than to the result, in short.

Another important point of the post is to show not only the work of scientists in the making but also that of science journalists. You must use the web to make it clear to the public as the news reporter constructs and how they change over time is telling the story through the participation of readers.

Alice's post has received many comments and even criticism. Beyond shared some objections I find the discussion interesting because is a concrete example of why and how we should look for new stories for science in the media. The mantra also applies to innovation in information science journalism, in my opinion especially science journalism.

The narrative, along with software, to routine manufacturing, design elements are to discuss. Through experiments on all these aspects of information on science and technology should find its leading role in the new ecosystem of communications.

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other narratives are possible communication problems on earthquakes in Italy

According to the Italian press ( here and here for example) The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) is considering to obscure the site of the institute and all the data related to earthquakes in Italy.

The reason is to prevent them from being distorted, manipulated and used to create unjustified fears. Among the main causes of alarms without reason, there are journalists looking for scoops. Many comments in the network (you can look at the sites of major Italian newspapers to get an idea) in what looks like a provocation by the mouth of the president of the INGV Italian geologists, Enzo Boschi.

Woods's statement can be understood as a reaction to a situation exacerbated after the Eagle, especially by the fact that some continue to insist that earthquakes can be predicted when the whole community international scientific claims that currently it is not.

Reduce the transparency and access to data is not the solution. What is happening on the communication about earthquakes in Italy is an example of the crucial functions that can and must do an independent and expert scientific journalism.

Science journalism is still too little and thought of as mere disclosure as hub of conflict and power relations in the knowledge society. We must think of new narratives of science journalism to prevent the need for information about the context of production of research and the ethical and social implications of science is occupied by those who are not competent or has interests different from information.

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project twitter on science and science journalism

The Science Communication Unit at the University of West England wants to explore the state of the art of science communication and public engagement on matters of science and technology through twitter. As the instrument is used, by whom and how?

The project is called "Science in 140 Characters or Less: Public Engagement and the Twittersphere. To address this is a questionnaire, which is part of the project, written by Toby Shannon.

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It discusses among evolutionists

Party today at the Fourth Congress of the Sibe Milan, the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology. The program is available here.

Tomorrow morning at 11 I discuss with Ferrari and Marco Telmo Pievani communication and science journalism with a specific focus on the themes of evolution.
I'll try to say that behind the supposed tensions between scientists and journalists are comparing different visions of the relationship between science and society and that science journalism is a good indicator of the role science plays in society and the image it wants to give of themselves in against non-experts.

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Italian labels against bad journalism

Tom Scott offers some stickers to warn readers from bad journalism.
Have you thought of the warnings, like those found at stations or in the subway, to attack on items.

Examples:








The files of all the stickers is here.