scholarly journals COVID-19 and science communication: a JCOM special issue. Part 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (07) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Luisa Massarani ◽  
Padraig Murphy ◽  
Rod Lamberts
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The World ◽  
Deadly Disease

As COVID-19 continues its devastating pathway across the world, in this second part of the JCOM special issue on communicating COVID-19 and coronavirus we present further research papers and practice insights from across the world that look at specific national challenges, the issue of “fake news” and the possibilities of satire and humour in communicating the seriousness of the deadly disease.

COVID-19 as an Extreme Event in the New York Metropolitan Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Marcotullio ◽  
William D. Solecki
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Deadly Disease

During early 2020, the world encountered an extreme event in the form of a new and deadly disease, COVID-19. Over the next two years, the pandemic brought sickness and death to countries and their cities around the globe. One of the first and initially the hardest hit location was New York City, USA. This article is an introduction to the Special Issue in this journal that highlights the impacts from and responses to COVID-19 as an extreme event in the New York City metropolitan region. We overview the aspects of COVID-19 that make it an important global extreme event, provide brief background to the conditions in the world, and the US before describing the 10 articles in the issue that focus on conditions, events and dynamics in New York City during the initial phases of the pandemic.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and science communication: a JCOM special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Luisa Massarani ◽  
Padraig Murphy ◽  
Rod Lamberts
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Information Requirements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Healthcare Work ◽  
Medical Advances

The devastating effects of COVID-19 and the speed of both the scientific and medical response and the public information requirements about frontline healthcare work, medical advances and policy and compliance measures has necessitated an intensity of science communication never seen before. This JCOM special issue — the first of two parts — looks at the challenges of communicating COVID-19 and coronavirus in the early spread of the disease in 2020. Here we present papers from across the world that demonstrate the scale of this challenge.

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 Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Aging Spine: Introduction to the Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 2535
Author(s):  
Aria Nouri ◽  
Renato Gondar ◽  
Joseph S. Cheng ◽  
Mark R.N. Kotter ◽  
Enrico Tessitore
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Myelopathy ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Outcome Prediction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
The World ◽  
Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) is the most common cause of spinal cord injury in the world, but despite this, there remains many areas of uncertainty regarding the management of the condition. This special issue was dedicated to presenting current research topics in DCM. Within this issue, 12 publications are presented, including an introductory narrative overview of DCM and 11 articles comprising 9 research papers and 2 systematic reviews focusing on different aspects, ranging from genetic factors to clinical assessments, imaging, sagittal balance, surgical treatment, and outcome prediction. These articles represented contributions from a diverse group of researchers coming from multiple countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, South Korea, and Canada.

scholarly journals Gas Capture Processes

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Zhien Zhang ◽  
Tohid Borhani ◽  
Muftah El-Naas ◽  
Salman Soltani ◽  
Yunfei Yan
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
The World ◽  
Increasing Trends ◽  
Ecological Habitats

The increasing trends in gas emissions have had direct adverse impacts on human health and ecological habitats in the world. A variety of technologies have been deployed to mitigate the release of such gases, including CO2, CO, SO2, H2S, NOx and H2. This special issue on gas-capture processes collects 25 review and research papers on the applications of novel techniques, processes, and theories in gas capture and removal.

scholarly journals Introduction: Special Issue ‘Complexity and Truth’

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Altmann ◽  
Robert Peters
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Bright Light ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

If not even earlier, then at the latest when Oxford Dictionaries selected ‘post-truth’ as Word of the Year 2016, did the global public become aware that ‘truth’ is not an uncontested and finite concept but a social construct. Are we, then, standing on the threshold of a new ‘post-truth age’ as – for instance – The Independent has claimed? (Norman 2016) Certainly, the Word of the Year 2016 has cast a bright light onto the case that there is not ‘one truth only’ but that there are facts that can be interpreted – or rejected – in different ways. This means that truth is ‘produced’, but is it produced as scientific or religious truth or as political truth? Just think of `fake news´ and its strategic use in influencing elections, as in the case of the latest presidential elections in the US or Brazil, or the leave campaign in the case of the Brexit referendum. Thus, the production of truth is undertaken by society, at least on the level of concrete actions. This situation becomes more complicated if we consider modern complex society. The increasing globalization of economies and societies has made the world more complex than it has ever before been.

scholarly journals Dialogue and Advising in Self-Access Learning: Introduction to the Special Issue

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Contribution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Reflective Dialogue ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

Welcome to the special issue on dialogue and advising in self-access learning. Both of us have been involved in promoting reflective dialogue through advising for some time, yet we know that there is so much more to explore in this field. Through this special issue, we hope to make a small contribution to our developing profession and provide opportunities for us to learn from research and practices around the world. In this short introduction, we would like to touch on some of the key points related to dialogue and advising in order to put the contributions that follow into context. We will then introduce the contributions to this special issue, which include three research papers focusing on areas which have not been explored in depth before: gender, emotional dynamics, and affect in advising dialogues. We also have articles featuring exciting new initiatives and updates from various parts of the world. Finally, we will conclude with some comments about future directions of this growing field.

scholarly journals Social Media for Social Good or Evil: An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511878671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Hemsley ◽  
Jenna Jacobson ◽  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Philip Mai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Good ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Good For ◽  
Good And Evil

In the heyday of social media, individuals around the world held high hopes for the democratizing force of social media; however, in light of the recent public outcry of privacy violations, fake news, and Russian troll farms, much of optimism toward social media has waned in favor of skepticism, fear, and outrage. This special issue critically explores the question, “Is social media for good or evil?” While good and evil are both moral terms, the research addresses whether the benefits of using social media in society outweigh the drawbacks. To help conceptualize this topic, we examine some of the benefits (good) and drawbacks (evil) of using social media as discussed in eight papers from the 2017 International Conference on Social Media and Society. This thematic collection reflects a broad range of topics, using diverse methods, from authors around the world and highlights different ways that social media is used for good, or evil, or both. We conclude that the determination of good and evil depends on where you stand, but as researchers, we need to go a step further to understand who it is good for and who it might hurt.

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue “Monitoring Land Subsidence Using Remote Sensing”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1771
Author(s):  
Massimo Fabris ◽  
Nicola Cenni ◽  
Simone Fiaschi
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Geological Hazard ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World

Land subsidence is a geological hazard that affects several different communities around the world [...]

scholarly journals Advances in the Molecular Mechanisms of Abscisic Acid and Gibberellins Functions in Plants

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 6080
Author(s):  
Víctor Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Abscisic Acid ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers

In this special issue entitled, “Advances in the Molecular Mechanisms of Abscisic Acid and Gibberellins Functions in Plants”, eight articles are collected, with five reviews and three original research papers, which broadly cover different topics on the abscisic acid (ABA) field and, to a lesser extent, on gibberellins (GAs) research [...]

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