21/06/2017
Big data and digital methods in science communication research: opportunities, challenges and limits
Computational social science represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reality based on advanced computer tools. From economics to...
15/12/2015
Open Science may become the next scientific revolution, but still lingers in a pre-paradigmatic phase, characterised by the lack of established...
24/06/2013
A new editorial board is guiding JCOM through a period of change and here opens out the discussion on what JCOM has become and what it could or should...
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...
21/12/2011
Among the most interesting aspects of the changes in the media ecosystem a leading role is played by the impact of digital and networking technologies on...
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...
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...
30/10/2009
Research systems are increasingly required to be more practically oriented and to address issues which appear more promising in economic and social...
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...
21/09/2009
In the last decades, production of science and technology as well as science-society relationships started changing rapidly. Research is asked to be more...
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...
21/03/2008
To give a good public speech is art; but definitely more difficult is to organize a productive exchange of points of views between scientists, experts,...
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...
21/03/2007
What professional future awaits those who have attended a school in science communication? This has become an ever more urgent question, when you...
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...
21/03/2006
Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic),...
09/12/2005
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21/06/2005
Science and technology: these are the mainstays China wants to concentrate on in order to stabilise its future as an emerging world power. Beijing plans...
21/03/2004
On 15 September 2001, thirteen major international journals, coordinated by the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE), published a...
21/03/2004
There is a substantial divergence between the standards of integrity associated with "good science" and the problems imposed by the conflict of interest...
21/03/2003
In a brief article published by Science1 last October, British scientists stated that the expression "Public Understanding of Science" (PUS), which was...
21/09/2002
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21/06/2002
"We can only appeal to society, considering that governments and parties have fallen constantly short of expectations since the late eighties. The public...
21/03/2002
Ever since Galileo's time, scientists have been interested in how to create a perfect language capable of supporting communication at a horizontal level...