ABSTRACT Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education
garnered significant attention in recent years and has emerged as a key field of research …

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

Amid the increasing use of web analytics to gage the success, present and future, of news
content and related news products, this article focuses on in-depth interviews with the …

The emergence of an increasingly complex variety of digital actors who may be considered
as engaging in journalism has led to a veritable explosion of scholarship on peripheral …

This study assesses how scientists think about science communication training based on the
argument that such training represents an important tool in improving the quality of …

Academics are increasingly being urged to blog in order to expand their audiences, create
networks and to learn to write in more reader friendly style. This paper holds this advocacy …

Although there is a broad consensus among scientists and journalists about the existence of
anthropogenic climate change as a global problem, some segments of the population …

As a relatively new and rapidly growing academic genre, the academic blog offers an open
space for scholars to disseminate their work and discuss research issues. In this new …

Science museums are missing an opportunity to promote informal education, scientific
literacy, public engagement and public visibility of scientists outside of museum walls via …

As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have
emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of …