Neue Formen der Wissenschaftskommunikation

Hagenhoff, Svenja; Seidenfaden, Lutz; Ortelbach, Björn; Schümann, Matthias

doi:10.17875/gup2007-208

Cited by 21 publications

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“…From the mid-1990s, however, an imbalance developed in the market for journals, which ultimately built up into the so-called ‘serials crisis’ (Hanekop and Wittke 2005; McGuigan 2004; Tenopir and King 2000). More and more disciplines began to quantify journal reputation in the form of rankings, mostly citation-based.…”

Section: Path Breaking In the Journal Market: From Closed Access To O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access

Dobusch,

Heimstädt

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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We are currently witnessing a fundamental structural transformation of the scientific public sphere, characterized by processes of specialization, metrification, internationalization, platformization and visibilization. In contrast to explanations of this structural transformation that invoke a technological determinism, we demonstrate its historical contingency by drawing on analytic concepts from organization theory and the case of the Open Access transformation in Germany. The digitization of academic journals has not broadened access to scientific output but narrowed it down even further in the course of the ‘serials crisis’. For a long time, research institutions were not able to convince large academic publishers to adopt less restrictive forms of access to academic journals. It was only through the emergence of new and in part illegal actors (shadow libraries and preprint servers) that the existing path could be broken, and an Open Access path constituted. Following this analysis, we discuss consequences of the Open Access transformation for the public spheres of science and democracy. We conclude that Open Access publishing can only help to transform both communicative spaces towards the normative ideal of a public sphere when complemented by systematic support for non-profit publication infrastructures.

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Section: Path Breaking In the Journal Market: From Closed Access To O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access

Dobusch,

Heimstädt

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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“…Studies illustrate how stories are applied to promote public understanding and changes in attitudes [e.g. Hinyard and Kreuter, 2007], to transfer messages among disciplines and to generate and present data [Hagenhoff et al, 2007]. Furthermore, storytelling is frequently embedded in learning approaches through digital storytelling [e.g.…”

Section: Storytelling In Science Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Storytelling for narrative approaches in citizen science: towards a generalized model

Richter¹,

Sieber²,

Siebert³

et al. 2019

JCOM

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Storytelling essentials are stories that direct attention, trigger emotions, and prompt understanding. Citizen science has recently promoted the narrative approach of storytelling as a means of engagement of people of all ages and backgrounds in scientific research processes. We seek understanding about the typology of storytelling in citizen science projects and explore to what extent the tool of storytelling can be conceptualized in the approach of citizen science. In a first step, we investigated the use and integration of storytelling in citizen science projects in the three European German-speaking countries. We conducted a low threshold content analysis of 209 projects listed on the German-speaking online platforms for citizen science projects “Bürger schaffen Wissen”, “Österreich forscht”, and “Schweiz forscht”. Two expert workshops with citizen science practitioners were held to validate and discuss the identified role of stories in the practice of citizen science. Our analysis revealed three major categories mirroring how stories are being integrated and applied in citizen science. The first category refers to projects, in which stories are the core research objective. The second category is characterized by the application of stories in different phases of the research project. The third category encompasses stories as agents being part of the communication and organization of the project. We illustrate the practical application of these categories by three representative case studies. By combining the functionality of the categories and abstracting the linkages between storytelling and citizen science, we derived a generalized model accounting for those linkages. In conclusion, we suggest that storytelling should be a prerequisite to enhance the competencies of the actors involved and to exchange knowledge at the interfaces of science and policy as well as science and society.

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“…External scientiic communication seeks to convey scientiic indings, recruit new scientiic talents, inspire trust and credibility, and secure the provision of suicient inancial and structural resources for science. It is also the negotiation of socially legitimate forms of science and the manner in which society deals with scientiic knowledge [Hagenhof et al 2007].…”

Section: Scientiic Communicationmentioning

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Field-specific mediatization: Testing the combination of social theory and mediatization theory using the example of scientific communication

Lüthje

2017

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<p>In contemporary media and communication science, mediatization is regarded as an “emerging paradigm”, but the term itself is diffuse and highly contingent. An attempt is made in this paper to integrate structural and individual concepts of mediatization theory by combining it with Bourdieu’s field theory using the example of science. After outlining the notion of mediatization underlying this text, the special features of scientific communication and the scientific field are presented. Hypotheses mentioned in the literature on the influence of new media technologies on science are contrasted with the state of research. This reveals that the impact of media innovations cannot be seen in a monocausal manner. In field-specific mediatization, they interact with various structural and individual elements.</p>

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Neue Formen der Wissenschaftskommunikation

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access

The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access

Storytelling for narrative approaches in citizen science: towards a generalized model

Field-specific mediatization: Testing the combination of social theory and mediatization theory using the example of scientific communication

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