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editorialControl societies and the crisis of science journalism
Yurij Castelfranchi
30/10/2009

In a brief text written in 1990, Gilles Deleuze took his friend Michel Foucault’s work as a starting point and spoke of new forces at work in ...

editorialFilling the gap between theory and practice
Nico Pitrelli
21/09/2009

Jcom’s adventure was launched nearly eight years ago, when a group of lecturers and former students of the Master’s degree in Science Communication at ...

editorialCommunication of influenza, influence of communication
Yurij Castelfranchi
19/06/2009

The recent events related to the spread of the influenza virus A (H1N1) have drawn again the attention of science communication experts to old issues, ...

editorialTechno-scientific hybrids. Science communication in pursuit of an academic identity
Nico Pitrelli, Yurij Castelfranchi
20/03/2009

A recent article published in Science Communication addresses the training issue in issue in our discipline. Henk Mulder and his colleagues discuss the ...

editorialScientists, do it like Al Gore
Pietro Greco
19/12/2008

Human health has currently to face a growing series of global issues. From the spread of HIV/AIDS to a fresh outbreak of tuberculosis, increasingly ...

editorialThe better you know, the better you make your choice. The need for a scientific citizenship in the era of knowledge
Pietro Greco
19/09/2008

Martin W. Bauer is right, two evolutionary processes are under way. These are quite significant and, in some way, they converge into public science ...

editorialCultural determinants in the perception of science
Pietro Greco
20/06/2008

Those studying the public understanding of science and risk perception have held it clear for long: the relation between information and judgment ...

editorialA total society of knowledge
Pietro Greco
21/03/2008

The major Lisbon goal is to give Europe back the primacy as a society of knowledge. `Giving back' is a more appropriate term than `giving', as Europe long ...

editorialA Nobel prize to public science communication
Pietro Greco
21/12/2007

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed the 2007 Nobel Peace Price equally upon the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...

editorialVatican-branded science communication
Nico Pitrelli
20/09/2007

The summer now gone has reported two episodes we would like to bring to the attention of the JCOM readers. Two minor pieces of news, unlikely to be in the ...

editorialUniversity in the 21st Century
Pietro Greco
21/06/2007

The Scientific Communications Act of 2007 (HR 1453) was introduced by the US House of Representatives on 9th March. The National Science Foundation, an ...

editorialPatterns for dialogue: under construction
Pietro Greco
21/03/2007

NASA has decided to cut by 50% the next two-year budget for the Astrobiology Institute (NAI), and for all of the studies on life in outer space. This ...

editorialSystematically sceptical
Pietro Greco
21/12/2006

One can no longer rely on the presumption that scientists comply with the Mertonian value of disinterest and assume that they always tell the truth when ...

editorialThe world, out there
Pietro Greco
21/09/2006

The Royal Society published in late June a report entitled «Science Communication. Survey of factors affecting science communication by scientists and ...

editorialNo reserved communication lanes for high energy
Nico Pitrelli
21/06/2006

The American particle physics community is in jeopardy and may end up drowning in a boundless sea trying to grasp at non-existing funds, dragging US physics ...

editorialNew scandals – time to rethink the rules?
Pietro Greco
21/03/2006

The scandal of the “biotechnology evangelist” erupted in Korea at the beginning of the new year: a commission from Seoul National University announced that ...

editorialPandemic: how to avoid panic?
Pietro Greco
21/12/2005

The tsunami that took place on 26th December 2004 in the Indian Ocean and hurricane Katrina, that last August struck the Mexican Gulf, are two recent ...

editorialAmphibious Environments in Science Communication
Yurij Castelfranchi
21/09/2005

The historian Marshall Berman wrote that living in modern times means "to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, ...

editorialRatzinger and science (communication)
Pietro Greco
21/06/2005

The death of Pope John Paul II, the "Polish pope", in Rome and the subsequent election of Benedict XVI, the "German pope", have been two ...

editorialThe Tsunami challenge
Pietro Greco
21/03/2005

Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island ...

Peer-to-peer science

The first articles belonging to a special issue on Peer-to-peer and user-led science will be available on-line starting from February 22. The complete issue will be published on March 22, including a commentary on the same topic.

Social network science: pedagogy, dialogue, deliberation Richard Watermeyer 09/03/2010
The public production and sharing of medical information. An Australian perspective Henry C.H. Ko 02/03/2010
Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities Inna Kouper 26/02/2010
Changing the meaning of peer-to-peer? Exploring online comment spaces as sites of negotiated expertise Marie-Claire Shanahan 22/02/2010
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Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities Inna Kouper 26/02/2010
Social network science: pedagogy, dialogue, deliberation Richard Watermeyer 09/03/2010
Science comics as tools for science education and communication: a brief, exploratory study M. Tatalovic 18/11/2009