scholarly journals Scientific communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kobylarek
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
The Core ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Core Characteristics ◽  
Communication In Science

The article tackles the problem of models of communication in science. The formal division of communication processes into oral and written does not resolve the problem of attitude. The author defines successful communication as a win-win game, based on the respect and equality of the partners, regardless of their position in the world of science. The core characteristics of the process of scientific communication are indicated , such as openness, fairness, support, and creation. The task of creating the right atmosphere for science communication belongs to moderators, who should not allow privilege and differentiation of position to affect scientific communication processes.

scholarly journals Evaluating science communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 116 (16) ◽  
pp. 7670-7675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baruch Fischhoff
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Effective Science ◽  
The Right

Effective science communication requires assembling scientists with knowledge relevant to decision makers, translating that knowledge into useful terms, establishing trusted two-way communication channels, evaluating the process, and refining it as needed. Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda [National Research Council (2017)] surveys the scientific foundations for accomplishing these tasks, the research agenda for improving them, and the essential collaborative relations with decision makers and communication professionals. Recognizing the complexity of the science, the decisions, and the communication processes, the report calls for a systems approach. This perspective offers an approach to creating such systems by adapting scientific methods to the practical constraints of science communication. It considers staffing (are the right people involved?), internal collaboration (are they talking to one another?), and external collaboration (are they talking to other stakeholders?). It focuses on contexts where the goal of science communication is helping people to make autonomous choices rather than promoting specific behaviors (e.g., voter turnout, vaccination rates, energy consumption). The approach is illustrated with research in two domains: decisions about preventing sexual assault and responding to pandemic disease.

Student Satisfaction Approach for Enhancing University Competitiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Booysen Sabeho Tubulingane ◽  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Universities contribute to the creation of a knowledgeable and skilled national workforce. The world over, universities are hailed as one of the old forms of organizations that have been instrumental in contributing to the development of many nations by producing skilled and intellectual human resources needed to produce goods and services. For this role fulfillment, the universities must ensure student satisfaction as students are the core of the very existence of universities and most important stakeholders in the higher education scenario. Moreover, student satisfaction is likely to enhance not only the better teaching-learning process, knowledge transfer, but also the competitiveness of the universities. This is all the more relevant and probably the best way to adopt for the university to play their role effectively and also is competitive in emerging economies. Hence, adopting a quantitative descriptive cross-sectional research methodology, this study aims to deliberate on how student satisfaction is the right approach and can drive university competitiveness.

scholarly journals Emotional Engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Chris Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Intellectual Level ◽  
Emotional Landscape

I want to talk about emotions. Well, I don’t really want to. Frankly, not having to deal with emotions was one of the attributes of engineering that attracted me to this field of study.  I liked keeping interactions on an intellectual level. Answers to Math and Physics homework sets were cut and dried and the odd numbered ones could be found in the back of the book. There was security in knowing the right answer. However, despite the promise of clarity, even as an engineer, I found questions finding their way in, or their way out, questions that were rooted in my emotional landscape. Is this all there is? What do I want my life to be about? How am I making the world a better place by the work that I do? These weren’t academic questions for me; they were soul searching questions that challenged the core of my identity. Could I be an engineer and be whole, whatever that might mean? I’m proud of the work I have done to become an engineer, but there is something missing.

scholarly journals The ethics of science communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Medvecky ◽  
Joan Leach
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ethics Of Science ◽  
The Right

What is it that really makes communicating science a good, moral thing to do? And are there limits to the potential ‘goodness’ of science communication? In this article, we argue it is time we consider what an ethics of science communication might look like. Not only will this help us figure out what doing the right, moral thing might be. It also invites us to think through one of the most perplexing, challenging and pressing question for this still emerging field: what are the core unifying features of science communication?

scholarly journals قتل اور خودکشی ،اسلام اور بدھ مت :تقابلی مطالعہ

rahatulquloob ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sulaiman Nasir ◽  
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Present World

The sanctity of human life is the core issue in almost all religions of the world. In the present world scenario, human beings are suffering a lot. Human life is at risk. The most important and precious figure in society is human beings as it is the greatest creature of Almighty Allah. Buddhism and Islam both emphasize the sanctity of human life. The stress laid by the teaching of Islam on the sanctity and respect of human life can be understood by the fact that Islam does not allow the killing of people who are not physically involved in the war. Islam also against suicide. Similarly, the teaching of Buddha has emphasized the holiness and sanctity of human life. According to the philosophy of non-violence in Buddhism (Ahimsa), Killing of human beings is far from Buddhist’s creed even they are against the killing of insects. In Buddhism, “The nonviolence is one of the five precepts of Dhamma, which form the right action, right views and right-thinking on Eightfold Path. This article focuses on the teaching of Buddhism and Islam, a comparative study regarding killing and suicide as these topics are closely related to the sanctity of human life.

Hodgskin’s Libertarian Groundwork

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
Daniel Layman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
Working Out

Thomas Hodgskin, an Englishman who wrote widely in political economy during the first half of the nineteenth century, professed almost slavish devotion to Locke. In following in what he took to be Locke’s footsteps, he devoted his scholarly life to a polemic against “idle” capitalists and landowners. But he simultaneously defended an unflinchingly individualist interpretation of the Lockean project. According to Hodgskin, the world is common only in the sense of being originally unowned, and everyone has a right to anything he can create by laboring on it. He argues that the crushing inequality he observed around him in the fields and cities of the industrial revolution was attributable solely to the violence and cupidity of governments and their cronies. In working out this theory, Hodgskin sketched the principle features of a distinctly libertarian resolution of Locke’s property problem. According to this resolution, there is no problem about reconciling the common right to the world with the growth of private property because the common right is simply a liberty for each person to make use of the world as he might see fit. Thus, despite his left-leaning criticisms of capitalism and absentee landownership, Hodgskin planted seeds that would develop, in Spooner’s later work, into the core of the right-libertarianism we know today.

Countering False Beliefs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man-pui Sally Chan ◽  
Christopher Jones ◽  
Dolores Albarracín
Keyword(s):  
Decision Trees ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Influence Effect

Although false beliefs about science are at the core of theory and practice in the field of scientific communication, correction and retraction of misinformation entail a complex and difficult process. This chapter first provides a review of trends in scientific retraction and correction notes failures in the fundamental communicative function of signaling that a published finding has been invalidated. It describes the recent practical communication developments that are increasing the transparency and visibility of retractions and corrections of fraudulent or incorrect scientific findings and examines the final barrier to correction of misbelief: the continued influence effect. The chapter reviews the results of a meta-analysis of the continued influence effect and present psychology-based recommendations in the form of decision trees to guide the work of scientists and practitioners and provides eight best practice recommendations for science communication scholars and practitioners as they continue their battle against misinformation.

8. Cop cultures

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-184
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bowling ◽  
Robert Reiner ◽  
James Sheptycki
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
World View ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Core ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Characteristics

This chapter critically examines the concept of cop culture, that is, the world view and perspectives of police officers. It considers the core characteristics of police culture portrayed in empirical studies at many different places and times, relating them to the danger and authority associated with the police role. It then discusses the themes of mission, hedonistic love of action, and pessimistic cynicism that characterize policework and how they relate to other facets of cop culture such as suspicion, isolation/solidarity, and conservatism. Finally, it analyses variations in cop culture and in organizational culture. The fundamental argument is that the structural features of the police role in liberal democratic societies generate tensions and the cultural perspectives that enable police to cope with them, although these have negative features reflecting the fundamental patterns of social injustice and inequality.

scholarly journals Styrke og veiledning: Forskningsformidling i møte med særinteresser

2019 ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Bjørn H. Samset
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Scientific Advice ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Subjective Opinion ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Headline News

Why do people increasingly reject science in favor of subjective opinion? This well-known trend, most recently embodied as “fake news”, has both put lives at risk (through the increasing support for the anti-vaccine movement) and delayed the necessary global adoption of green energy (through so-called climate change skepticism). In this article, I show how rejection of science is often linked to a particular type of new knowledge, one where scientific advice does not grant us local, immediate gains. I also investigate societal megatrends that underlie such skepticism: the growth of social media, the rapid pace of headline news, and the enormous expansion of science itself. Finally, I discuss a way to combat “fake news” and its related phenomena, through more dedicated science communication. “Strength and guidance” is a good slogan for the disseminators of today and tomorrow; strength because the core messages from science need to be ever repeated in a world hungry for sensations, and guidance because the world has grown so complex that bare facts are no longer sufficient. Science communicators need to step out of their comfort zone and give actual, science-based advice – and still refrain from crossing the fine line between objectivity and activism.

scholarly journals The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

PLoS Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. e3000959
Author(s):  
Nicholas Fraser ◽  
Liam Brierley ◽  
Gautam Dey ◽  
Jessica K. Polka ◽  
Máté Pálfy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Impact

The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths since January 2020. Although the most recent respiratory viral pandemic swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a cultural shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 125,000 COVID-19–related scientific articles within 10 months of the first confirmed case, of which more than 30,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, 2 growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, as well as characteristics of their propagation on online platforms. Our data provide evidence for increased scientific and public engagement with preprints related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 preprints are accessed more, cited more, and shared more on various online platforms than non-COVID-19 preprints), as well as changes in the use of preprints by journalists and policymakers. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science and the impact of the pandemic on the scientific communication landscape.

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