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editorialJCOM — Five Years into the Future
Nico Pitrelli
20/03/2013
In the next few months, JCOM will undergo relevant changes. A new owner will take charge of its editorial management and define new development strategies. ...
editorialA lesson from L’Aquila: the risks of science (mis)communication
Giancarlo Sturloni
21/12/2012

On 22 October 2012, six members of a technical-scientific consultancy agency of the Italian Civil Protection were found guilty of multiple manslaughter ...

editorialReview of PCST2012 conference: where is communication going?
Brian Trench
21/09/2012

The PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) conference, held
every two years, offers an opportunity to chart the progress and ...

editorialOpen Access and Science Communication. Reflections on the need for a more open communication environment
Alessandro Delfanti
21/06/2012

While several scientific communities have discussed the emergence of Open Access publishing in depth, in the science communication community this debate has ...

editorialWhere is public communication of science going?
Alessandro Delfanti
21/06/2011

We have published this issue of JCOM while the call for papers is open for the twelfth Public Communication of Science and Technology conference. The ...

editorialThe new book
Daniele Gouthier
21/03/2011

The Internet and digital media are changing science books. They change the way readers approach books and change the way books present their contents. ...

editorialScience journalism to face a demand for renewal
Nico Pitrelli
21/12/2010

A workshop on science journalism organised at SISSA of Trieste, Italy a few weeks ago outlined scenarios that should serve as a source for debate among ...

editorialOpen science, a complex movement
Alessandro Delfanti
21/09/2010

Science must be open and accessible, and diffusion of knowledge should not be limited by patents and copyrights. After the Open Science Summit held in ...

editorialA game of democracy. Science museums for the governance of science and technology
Paola Rodari
21/06/2010

Luckily enough, more democracy is always called for. Even in countries that can truly be described as democratic. And democracy (which is a constant ...

editorialUsers and peers. From citizen science to P2P science
Alessandro Delfanti
22/03/2010

This introduction presents the essays belonging to the JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science. It also draws a first map of the main ...

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 ...