Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age
The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of science and technology, the volume fills a much needed gap in contemporary rhetoric of science scholarship. Overall, the essays reveal how digital technologies may both fray the boundaries between experts and non-experts and enable more collaborative, democratic means of public engagement with science. --Lisa Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver
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Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age
The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of science and technology, the volume fills a much needed gap in contemporary rhetoric of science scholarship. Overall, the essays reveal how digital technologies may both fray the boundaries between experts and non-experts and enable more collaborative, democratic means of public engagement with science. --Lisa Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver
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Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age

Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age

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The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of science and technology, the volume fills a much needed gap in contemporary rhetoric of science scholarship. Overall, the essays reveal how digital technologies may both fray the boundaries between experts and non-experts and enable more collaborative, democratic means of public engagement with science. --Lisa Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351864022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/05/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Gross, Alan; Buehl, Jonathan

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. Revolution or Evolution? Casing the Impact of Digital Media on the Rhetoric of Science
Jonathan Buehl

CHAPTER 2. Learning to “Share Your Science”: The Open Notebook as Textual Object and Dynamic Rhetorical Space
Chad Wickman

CHAPTER 3. The Scientific Journal: Making It New?
Joseph E. Harmon

CHAPTER 4. Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight in the Sciences
Alan G. Gross

CHAPTER 5. The Online Research Article and the Ecological Basis of New Digital Genres
Christian F. Casper

CHAPTER 6. The Chemistry Liveblogging Event: The Web Refigures Peer Review
Michelle Sidler

CHAPTER 7. Controversies on the Web: The Case of Adult Human Neurogenesis
Jeanne Fahnestock

CHAPTER 8. Radiolab and Parasites: Podcasting Horror and Wonder to Foster Interest in Science
Sarah Wardlaw

CHAPTER 9. Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk
Charles Kostelnick and John Kostelnick

 CHAPTER 10. Meltdowns in the Media: Visualization of Radiation Risk from The Printed Page to the Internet
James Wynn

CHAPTER 11. Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the Internet
Ashley R. Kelly and Carolyn R. Miller

CHAPTER 12. Why People Care About Chickens and Other Lessons About Rhetoric, Public Science, and Informal Learning Environments
Stacey Pigg, William Hart-Davidson, Jeff Grabill, and Kirsten Ellenbogen

CHAPTER 13. Afterword: Social Changes in Science Communication: Rattling the Information Chain
Charles Bazerman

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