Science and the Internet
Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2015
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-89503-897-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 Keraenen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amityville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89503-897-5 (9780895038975)
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Persons
Alan Gross is a professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and its extensive revision, Starring the Text. With his long-term collaborator Joseph Harmon, he has written Communicating Science, The Scientific Literature, The Craft of Scientific Communication, and Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning. Jonathan Buehl is an associate professor and director of Business and Technical Writing in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His research interests include the rhetoric of science, visual rhetoric, research methodology, and digital media studies. He is the author of Assembling Arguments: Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse (forthcoming, University of South Carolina Press) and essays (published or forthcoming) in College Composition and Communication and Technical Communication Quarterly.
Content
CHAPTER 1. Revolution or Evolution? Casing the Impact of Digital Media on the Rhetoric of Science
Jonathan Buehl
CHAPTER 2. Learning to "Share Your Science": The Open Notebook as Textual Object and Dynamic Rhetorical Space
Chad Wickman
CHAPTER 3. The Scientific Journal: Making It New?
Joseph E. Harmon
CHAPTER 4. Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight in the Sciences
Alan G. Gross
CHAPTER 5. The Online Research Article and the Ecological Basis of New Digital Genres
Christian F. Casper
CHAPTER 6. The Chemistry Liveblogging Event: The Web Refigures Peer Review
Michelle Sidler
CHAPTER 7. Controversies on the Web: The Case of Adult Human Neurogenesis
Jeanne Fahnestock
CHAPTER 8. Radiolab and Parasites: Podcasting Horror and Wonder to Foster Interest in Science
Sarah Wardlaw
CHAPTER 9. Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk
Charles Kostelnick and John Kostelnick
CHAPTER 10. Meltdowns in the Media: Visualization of Radiation Risk from The Printed Page to the Internet
James Wynn
CHAPTER 11. Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the Internet
Ashley R. Kelly and Carolyn R. Miller
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, and Kirsten Ellenbogen
CHAPTER 13. Afterword: Social Changes in Science Communication: Rattling the Information Chain
Charles Bazerman
Editors' Biographies
Contributors
Index
Jonathan Buehl
CHAPTER 2. Learning to "Share Your Science": The Open Notebook as Textual Object and Dynamic Rhetorical Space
Chad Wickman
CHAPTER 3. The Scientific Journal: Making It New?
Joseph E. Harmon
CHAPTER 4. Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight in the Sciences
Alan G. Gross
CHAPTER 5. The Online Research Article and the Ecological Basis of New Digital Genres
Christian F. Casper
CHAPTER 6. The Chemistry Liveblogging Event: The Web Refigures Peer Review
Michelle Sidler
CHAPTER 7. Controversies on the Web: The Case of Adult Human Neurogenesis
Jeanne Fahnestock
CHAPTER 8. Radiolab and Parasites: Podcasting Horror and Wonder to Foster Interest in Science
Sarah Wardlaw
CHAPTER 9. Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk
Charles Kostelnick and John Kostelnick
CHAPTER 10. Meltdowns in the Media: Visualization of Radiation Risk from The Printed Page to the Internet
James Wynn
CHAPTER 11. Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the Internet
Ashley R. Kelly and Carolyn R. Miller
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, and Kirsten Ellenbogen
CHAPTER 13. Afterword: Social Changes in Science Communication: Rattling the Information Chain
Charles Bazerman
Editors' Biographies
Contributors
Index