http://jcom.sissa.it All our editorials daily 1 2008-10-22T07:04:59Z http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/10/02/Jcom1002%282011%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Alessandro Delfanti Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2011-06-21T07:31:59Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/10/01/Jcom1001%282011%29E <p>The Internet and digital media are changing science books. They change the way readers approach books and change the way books present their contents. ... SISSA Medialab Daniele Gouthier Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2011-03-21T11:49:04Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Nico Pitrelli Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2010-12-21T08:27:08Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/03/Jcom0903%282010%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Alessandro Delfanti Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2010-09-21T12:37:17Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/02/Jcom0902%282010%29E <p>Luckily enough, more democracy is always called for. Even in countries that can truly be described as democratic. And democracy (which is a constant ... SISSA Medialab Paola Rodari Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2010-06-21T09:34:04Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/01/Jcom0901%282010%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Alessandro Delfanti Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Democracy and science communication Social participation to science and technology Policy-making, communication and governance of science 2010-03-22T08:40:45Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/08/04/Jcom0804%282009%29E <p> 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 ... SISSA Medialab Yurij Castelfranchi Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2009-10-30T08:26:24Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/08/03/Jcom0803%282009%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Nico Pitrelli Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Public communication of and discourses on science and technology 2009-09-21T09:12:30Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/08/02/Jcom0802%282009%29E <p>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, ... SISSA Medialab Yurij Castelfranchi Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Risk communication 2009-06-19T07:46:49Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/08/01/Jcom0801%282009%29E <p>A recent article published in Science Communication addresses the training issue in issue in our discipline. Henk Mulder and his colleagues discuss the ... SISSA Medialab Nico PitrelliYurij Castelfranchi Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2009-03-20T09:02:52Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/04/Jcom0704%282008%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Pietro Greco Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2008-12-19T08:30:39Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/03/Jcom0703%282008%29E <p>Martin W. Bauer is right, two evolutionary processes are under way. These are quite significant and, in some way, they converge into public science ... SISSA Medialab Pietro Greco Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Public communication of and discourses on science and technology 2008-09-19T07:27:08Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/02/Jcom0702%282008%29E <p>Those studying the public understanding of science and risk perception have held it clear for long: the relation between information and judgment ... SISSA Medialab Pietro Greco Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2008-06-20T06:00:00Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/01/Jcom0701%282008%29E <p>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 ... SISSA Medialab Pietro Greco Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Policy-making, communication and governance of science 2008-03-21T07:00:00Z Editorial http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/04/Jcom0604%282007%29E <p>The Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed the 2007 Nobel Peace Price equally upon the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... SISSA Medialab Pietro Greco Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Environment communication 2007-12-21T14:28:40Z Editorial