Scientists’ Blogs: Glimpses Behind the Scenes

Trench, Brian

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2085-5_14

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“…Although one of the few studies on medialization in new communication media shows that the medialization of science in new media such as blogs is limited so far (Trench, 2012), other studies suggest that publicizing scholarly articles via social media may increase scientists' visibility by influencing the number of article citations or downloads (Brossard, 2013;Eysenbach, 2011;Liang et al, 2014;Priem, Piwowar, & Hemminger, 2012). Scholars of the medialization of science need to pay attention to scientists' perceptions and communication behaviors in the context of social media channels.…”

Section: Medialization and New Communication Channelsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Although scientists had been found to be uncomfortable with employing online social channels for public communication of science (e.g., Trench, 2012), more recent data suggest that these channels can be used to effectively convey scientists' findings to lay publics (Bombaci et al, 2015;Schäfer, 2012) and that scientists are starting to rely on these channels (Allgaier et al, 2013a;Schäfer, 2012).…”

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Mapping Neuroscientists’ Perceptions of the Nature and Effects of Public Visibility

Koh

Dunwoody

Brossard

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Science Communication

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How do neuroscientists "make sense" of public visibility in the context of their scientific work? Hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling analyses of 24 in-depth interviews with U.S. neuroscientists produced word groups and concept maps related to possible "medialization" processes. Findings suggest that scientists are factoring new communication channels into their public visibility calculus, although one legacy medium, The New York Times, remains the holy grail of medialization.

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Section: Medialization and New Communication Channelsmentioning

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Section: Medialization and New Communication Channelsmentioning

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Mapping Neuroscientists’ Perceptions of the Nature and Effects of Public Visibility

Koh

Dunwoody

Brossard

et al. 2016

Science Communication

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“…Peterson, 2001), engage in scientific debates online (e.g. Trench, 2011), check scientific publications for plagiarism or fraud in online fora (e.g. Fähnrich et al, 2015), or participate in research through citizen science (e.g.…”

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Selling science 2.0: What scientific projects receive crowdfunding online?

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Crowdfunding has emerged as an additional source for financing research in recent years. The study at hand identifies and tests explanatory factors influencing the success of scientific crowdfunding projects by drawing on news value theory, the “reputation signaling” approach, and economic theories of online payment. A standardized content analysis of 371 projects on English- and German-language platforms reveals that each theory provides factors influencing crowdfunding success. It shows that projects presented on science-only crowdfunding platforms have a higher success rate. At the same time, projects are more likely to be successful if their presentation includes visualizations and humor, the lower their targeted funding is, the less personal data potential donors have to relinquish and the more interaction between researchers and donors is possible. This suggests that after donors decide to visit a scientific crowdfunding platform, factors unrelated to science matter more for subsequent funding decisions, raising questions about the potential and implications of crowdfunding science.

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“…Blogs are also used as a means of dissemination by climate scientists, albeit to a limited extent (see Trench 2012). In sum, blogs offer unique possibilities for exchanging information on climate change, yet we do not at present have sufficient knowledge about the effects they have on public perceptions of climate issues.…”

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“…However, the focus has tended to be on online communication in general rather than on social media which has only emerged as a research field quite recently (Kirilenko and Stepchenkova 2014;Schäfer 2012, p. 537;Schäfer and Schlichting 2014;Sharman 2014). With regards to the climate blogosphere, pioneering work includes studies of scientists' blogs (Trench 2012) and the climate sceptical blogosphere (Sharman 2014), from the perspective of science communication and social network analysis. In contrast, this paper studies a large and heterogeneous corpus taken from the English-language climate blogosphere, with a focus on language use, and more specifically the linguistic representation of notions of the future.…”

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Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change

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Gjesdal

Gjerstad

et al. 2014

Global Environmental Change

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This paper investigates how the notion of future is represented in a large corpus of Englishlanguage blogs related to climate change, with an overarching interest in exploring to what extent the perspectives of gloom-and-doom versus more positive perspectives of a sustainable society are represented. We address the following questions: 1) How are representations of the future expressed linguistically in public debates related to climate change? 2) What meanings do the representations convey? Our principal contribution is a set of nine meaning categories that characterise different representations of the future: the categories were derived by following a corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach. Within these categories, the large presence of characterisations related to sustainability, as well as frequent positive value-laden characterisations, are noteworthy. Representations reflect various perspectives of a future for humanity, for nature, and for countries as well as for economies. Further, we have found that when climate change is viewed as a threat, it is in relation to nature, humans and security, while it is seen as an opportunity for growth in business and industry. The results provide knowledge on how people conceive the possible impacts of global climate and environmental change within two broad perspectives of a "gloom-and-doom" versus a "bright" future. This may contribute to an improved basis for political decision making on measures in order to avoid dangerous consequences as well as to encourage engagement in the shift towards a low-carbon future.

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Scientists’ Blogs: Glimpses Behind the Scenes

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

Mapping Neuroscientists’ Perceptions of the Nature and Effects of Public Visibility

Mapping Neuroscientists’ Perceptions of the Nature and Effects of Public Visibility

Selling science 2.0: What scientific projects receive crowdfunding online?

Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change

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