New issue of JCOM with special focus on Public Intellectuals

The first issue of The Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) for 2017 is now online and all articles are available open access. The new issue includes original research papers on how to engage and retain volunteers in citizen science projects, the potential of science cafés, a study on online videos on climate change produced for the internet and television, and a case study of deliberative democracy tools to address socio-scientific issues at school.

A set of five commentaries, coordinated by Dr Rod Lamberts, Deputy Director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at the Australian National University, focuses on the public role of academics. With contributions from various authors, the comments reflect on how and why academics can become “public intellectuals”, engage in public discourse, and how can science communicators contribute to this process.

JCOM is an open access journal on science communication. Since the world of communication and the scientific community are now undergoing a rapid and uncertain transition, JCOM wants to provide some theoretical guidelines both for scholars and practitioners in the field of public communication of science and technology. Gema Revuelta,  Diretcor of the Studies Center on Science, Communication and Society of the Pompeu Fabra University (CCS-UPF), is member of the Editorial Board of this journal.

 


Este blog cuenta con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación