‘The kind of mildly curious sort of science interested person like me’: Science bloggers’ practices relating to audience recruitment

Ranger, Mathieu; Bultitude, K

doi:10.1177/0963662514555054

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“…Science reporting is a form of specialist journalism where formal training in the science fields reported on is less important than journalistic professionalism and news values (Hansen, 1994). In new media such as blogs, professionals and amateur enthusiasts are driven more by personal motivations (Ranger & Bultitude, 2014).…”

Section: The Flow Of Knowledge In Mediated Social Systemsmentioning

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Microblogging as an extension of science reporting

Büchi

2016

Public Underst Sci

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Mass media have long provided general publics with science news. New media such as Twitter have entered this system and provide an additional platform for the dissemination of science information. Based on automated collection and analysis of >900 news articles and 70,000 tweets, this study explores the online communication of current science news. Topic modeling (latent Dirichlet allocation) was used to extract five broad themes of science reporting: space missions, the US government shutdown, cancer research, Nobel Prizes, and climate change. Using content and network analysis, Twitter was found to extend public science communication by providing additional voices and contextualizations of science issues. It serves a recommender role by linking to web resources, connecting users, and directing users' attention. This article suggests that microblogging adds a new and relevant layer to the public communication of science.

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Section: The Flow Of Knowledge In Mediated Social Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microblogging as an extension of science reporting

Büchi

2016

Public Underst Sci

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“…The audiovisual material also played a decisive role in the intertextual relations between the original article in PLOS ONE and the subsequent Internet postings. The role of images and videos, used as eye-catchers in the dissemination of scientific blogs, has notably been highlighted by Ranger & Bultitude [ 28 ]. In our case, the media scrutinized were especially relevant to this phenomenon: the video posted by PLOS ONE , followed by YouTube, flourished internationally on the Web.…”

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The Circulation of Scientific Articles in the Sphere of Web-Based Media: Citation Practices, Communities of Interests and Local Ties

Lefebvre

Renard

2016

PLoS ONE

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On 5th December 2012, a scientific article reviewing a change in the feeding behaviour of the European catfish, one of the largest freshwater fish, was published in the American scientific journal, PLOS ONE, an open access journal, which also allows the mass publication of pictures and videos. Within a few days following the publication of this article, it was relayed by numerous web sites and generated a media craze. In this paper, we analyse the circulation of this scientific information in the sphere of Web-based media during the two months following its publication, by revealing the citation mechanisms of the original article and the logic of the Internet users participating in its diffusion. In addition, since the circulation of its informational content travelled beyond linguistic and geographical boundaries, we chose to compare the citation modalities and intertextual relationships of documents in the three countries where the article spread the most widely, namely: France, the United States and Great Britain. Even though our study shows that the media circulation of scientific papers operates in a traditional way, the intertextual analysis underlines the grand variety of participants (such as journalists, non-scientists, fishermen, technology enthusiasts and Internet users) involved in the diffusion of this information, each of them mobilizing different intertextual strategies, according to their various targets. They all transformed, reformulated and appropriated the scientific information according to their own, unique interests. This study also emphasizes the importance of journalistic websites as opinion relays. They were the first diffusers involved in spreading the information but this role was rarely acknowledged by the Internet users - through citations, for example. In contrast, we observed that amateurs’ communities (communities of practices and communities of interest of fishermen or of buzz fans), which only became involved in a second temporal phase of the spreading, preferred to build up their credibility through citations of the original article. Finally, this research helps to rethink the mechanisms of the circulation of scientific information in the Web-based media, highlighting both the variety and the inventiveness of the interactions between the academic and public spheres.

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“…It might be getting harder for readers to find well-written science blogs, but it is even tougher for good science bloggers to get their writing noticed and attract an ongoing readership (Ranger and Bultitude, 2016). Even for the very best science bloggers, developing and sustaining a large online audience can be tough, and the time required can be similar to a full-time job rather than a part-time hobby (Yong, 2016).…”

Section: Getting Bogged Down and Disillusioned By Science Blogsmentioning

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Confessions of a Science Blogaholic: Highs, Lows, and Increasing Liabilities

Smith

2017

Front. Commun.

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‘The kind of mildly curious sort of science interested person like me’: Science bloggers’ practices relating to audience recruitment

Cited by 42 publications

References 23 publications

Microblogging as an extension of science reporting

Microblogging as an extension of science reporting

The Circulation of Scientific Articles in the Sphere of Web-Based Media: Citation Practices, Communities of Interests and Local Ties

Confessions of a Science Blogaholic: Highs, Lows, and Increasing Liabilities

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