Issue 03, september 2010

editorial

Open 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 ...

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Greek students’ images of scientific researchers

Vasilia Christidou

05/08/2010

Public images of scientific researchers –as reflected in the popular visual culture as well as in the conceptions of the public- combine traditional ...

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The rhetoric of computer simulations in astrophysics: a case study

Aimee Kendall Roundtree

13/08/2010

This article is a case study and rhetorical analysis of a specific scientific paper on a computer simulation in astrophysics, an advanced and often highly ...

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Pandemic on the air: a case study on the coverage of new influenza A/H1N1 by Brazilian prime time TV news

Flavia Natércia da Silva Medeiros, Luisa Massarani

21/09/2010

In this paper we analyze the coverage of the pandemic influenza caused by the A (H1N1) virus by the main Brazilian TV news. Jornal Nacional (JN) – which can ...

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Road maps for the 21st-century research in Science Communication

Nico Pitrelli

21/09/2010

This is an introduction to the essays from the Jcom commentary devoted to the statute and the future of research in science communication. The authors have ...

Alice R. Bell

Notes from some spaces in-between

Brian Trench, Massimiano Bucchi

Science communication, an emerging discipline

Toss Gascoigne, Donghong Cheng, Michel Claessens, Jenni Metcalfe, Bernard Schiele, Shunke Shi

Is science communication its own field?

Richard Holliman

From analogue to digital scholarship: implications for science communication researchers

Susanna Hornig Priest

Coming of age in the academy? The status of our emerging field