Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age / Edition 1

by Alan Gross, Jonathan Buehl

Overview

The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of science and technology, the volume fills a much needed gap in contemporary rhetoric of science scholarship. Overall, the essays reveal how digital technologies may both fray the boundaries between experts and non-experts and enable more collaborative, democratic means of public engagement with science. —Lisa Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895038982
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gross, Alan; Buehl, Jonathan

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Revolution or Evolution? Casing the Impact of Digital Media on the Rhetoric of Science Jonathan Buehl 1

Chapter 2 Learning to "Share Your Science": The Open Notebook as Textual Object and Dynamic Rhetorical Space Chad Wickman 11

Chapter 3 The Scientific Journal: Making It New? Joseph E. Harmon 33

Chapter 4 Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight in the Sciences Alan G. Gross 59

Chapter 5 The Online Research Article and the Ecological Basis of New Digital Genres Christian F. Casper 77

Chapter 6 The Chemistry Liveblogging Event: The Web Refigures Peer Review Michelle Sidler 99

Chapter 7 Controversies on the Web: The Case of Adult Human Neurogenesis Jeanne Fahnestock 117

Chapter 8 Radiolab and Parasites: Podcasting Horror and Wonder to Foster Interest in Science Sarah Wardlaw 143

Chapter 9 Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk Charles Kostelnick John Kostelnick 157

Chapter 10 Meltdowns in the Media: Visualization of Radiation Risk from The Printed Page to the Internet James Wynn 191

Chapter 11 Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the Internet Ashley R. Kelly Carolyn R. Miller 221

Chapter 12 Why People Care About Chickens and Other Lessons About Rhetoric, Public Science, and Informal Learning Environments Stacey Pigg William Hart-Davidson Jeff Grabill Kirsten Ellenbogen 247

Chapter 13 Afterword: Social Changes in Science Communication: Rattling the Information Chain Charles Bazerntan 267

Editors' Biographies 283

Contributors 285

Index 289