Communicating Popular Science

Perrault, Sarah Tinker

doi:10.1057/9781137017581

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“…Through the process of sharing and expanding domains of expertise, research endeavors are informed by qualitatively rich discussions and possess greater potential for advancing science towards achieving desired outcomes. " Perrault (2013) defines four kinds of expertise, two of which are especially relevant to citizen science. Contributory expertise is the capability of contributing to what is known about a topic, either in theory or practice.…”

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Agile collaboration: Citizen science as a transdisciplinary approach to heliophysics

Ledvina

Brandt

MacDonald

et al. 2023

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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Citizen science connects scientists with the public to enable discovery, engaging broad audiences across the world. There are many attributes that make citizen science an asset to the field of heliophysics, including agile collaboration. Agility is the extent to which a person, group of people, technology, or project can work efficiently, pivot, and adapt to adversity. Citizen scientists are agile; they are adaptable and responsive. Citizen science projects and their underlying technology platforms are also agile in the software development sense, by utilizing beta testing and short timeframes to pivot in response to community needs. As they capture scientifically valuable data, citizen scientists can bring expertise from other fields to scientific teams. The impact of citizen science projects and communities means citizen scientists are a bridge between scientists and the public, facilitating the exchange of information. These attributes of citizen scientists form the framework of agile collaboration. In this paper, we contextualize agile collaboration primarily for aurora chasers, a group of citizen scientists actively engaged in projects and independent data gathering. Nevertheless, these insights scale across other domains and projects. Citizen science is an emerging yet proven way of enhancing the current research landscape. To tackle the next-generation’s biggest research problems, agile collaboration with citizen scientists will become necessary.

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Agile collaboration: Citizen science as a transdisciplinary approach to heliophysics

Ledvina

Brandt

MacDonald

et al. 2023

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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“…The traditional science communication is mostly unidirectional, thus to carry out such participatory processes it is necessary to go beyond the "deficit model" [Alcíbar, 2015;Brossard and Lewenstein, 2010;Perrault, 2013]. In participatory approaches this model coexists with others that offer a greater interaction such as the "dialogue model" that conceives communication as a two-way flow between science and the public [Brossard and Lewenstein, 2010;Smallman, 2018].…”

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Characteristics of Spanish citizen participation practices in science

Llorente¹,

Revuelta²,

Carrió³

2021

JCOM

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A new regime of science production is emerging from the involvement of non-scientists. The present study aims to improve understanding of this phenomenon with an analysis of 16 interviews with Spanish coordinators of participatory science practices. The results indicate a majority of strategic and captive publics and point to communication as a key tool for the development of successful practices. Five key elements of the degree of integration required to develop a citizen participation in science practice were analysed: derived outputs, level of participant contribution, participation assessment, practice replicability, and participant and facilitator training. Proposals for strategies to remove barriers to citizen participation are the study's principal contribution.

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“…Popularization, as defined by Calsamiglia and van Dijk (2004), is "a vast class of various types of communicative events or genres that involve the transformation of specialized knowledge into 'everyday' or 'lay knowledge'". Thus, science popularization is when scientific information is formulated in a way that can make lay public construct their understanding of the information and integrate it with their initial knowledge by defining specific terminology, giving examples, or using metaphors, to promote the scientific information to the non-expert audience and shape a public discussion (Calsamiglia and van Dijk, 2004;Perrault, 2013).…”

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The Incipits of Semi-Popular Articles about Language Learning

Madani,

Darya

2021

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This study aims to identify the type of organization incipit used and analyze the language features of organization incipit in semi-popular science article. This research was conducted by using qualitative methods and employs a corpus-driven analysis approach. The approaches are conducted by adopting Hyland’s framework of proximity, specifically the organization facet of incipits position. After analyzing the data, the study found incipits in the semi-popular article can be broadly categorized into 5 categories and the most used category is ‘research finding’, followed by ‘establishment of a common ground’, then ‘contextualization of the article’, after that is ‘research problem’ category, and the least identified category is ‘benefit of the finding’. This study also found language feature of each category, like word frequency, concordance, and content organization is the one that identifies each category from the other.

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Communicating Popular Science

Cited by 44 publications

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Agile collaboration: Citizen science as a transdisciplinary approach to heliophysics

Agile collaboration: Citizen science as a transdisciplinary approach to heliophysics

Characteristics of Spanish citizen participation practices in science

The Incipits of Semi-Popular Articles about Language Learning

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