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

With this commentary JCOM continues its analysis of the transformations of science journalism in the new media ecology. The purpose of the papers we present ...

Genetic testing promises to put the ability to decide about our life choices in our hands, as well as help solve crucial health problems by preventing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this commentary, we collected three essays from authors coming from different perspectives. They analyse the problem of power, participation and ...

Manuel Castells, Communication power, Oxford University Press (2009)

Steven Shapin, The scientific life. A moral history of a late modern vocation, The University of Chicago Press (2008).

M. Bucchi and B. Trench (eds.), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, Routledge (2008).
D. Cheng, M. Claessens, T. Gascoigne, J. Metcalfe, B. Schiele and S. Shi (eds.), Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models, new practices, Springer (2008).

“Web 2.0” is the mantra enthusiastically repeated in the past few years on anything concerning the production of culture, dialogue and online communication. ...