[p2p-research] Fwd: JCOM 9(4) - new issue - December 2010, on participatory medicine, and more

Tue Dec 21 15:00:14 CET 2010

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Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Subject: JCOM 9(4) - new issue - December 2010
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Dear all, we are pleased to announce that the December 2010 issue of JCOM -
Journal of Science Communication - (issue 4, volume 9)

http://jcom.sissa.it/

is online.

Comments, remarks and papers by you are kindly requested.

The next issue will be online on 21st March 2011.

Contents:
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EDITORIAL

Science journalism to face a demand for renewal

Nico Pitrelli

A workshop on science journalism organised at SISSA of Trieste, Italy a few
weeks ago outlined scenarios that should serve as a source for debate among
professionals and scholars to grasp how information activities regarding
science, medicine and technology will evolve in the next few years. It is a
time of great uncertainty, yet a common path to venture through can be made
out: the new science journalism should meditate on a different concept of
science, an in-depth conceptualisation of different audiences, alternative
narrations and its role in the democratisation of knowledge within a
knowledge-based society.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)E/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29E/>

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ARTICLE

Fractal art

Giudi Scotto Rosato

Assuming that scientific development and artistic research are genetically
similar, this article shows the common need of knowledge of art and science,
their dialectical and multidirectional relations and the unstable boundaries
between them. The fractal art has assimilated the cognitive and perceptive
changes in the realm of non-euclidean geometries and has become a precise
instrument of "epistemological observation". Artistic practices materialize
and communicate the laws of science, while scientific revolutions are in
actual facts metaphorical revolutions.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)A01/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29A01/>

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Let's follow the actors! Does Actor-Network Theory have anything to
contribute to science journalism?

Carlos Fioravanti, Lea Velho

Science journalism usually focuses on achievements presented in scientific
papers previously published in specialized journals. In this paper we argue
that the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) can help to widen this approach and
reduce the dependency on scientific papers, by valuing not only scientists,
but also other actors, theirs motivations, interests and conflicts. ANT
could also help to reduce the distance between scientists and the audience
by exposing uncertainties about the production of science.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)A02/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29A02/>

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>From dissemination to response: in search of new strategies for broadcast
media in terms of cyclone warnings for Bangladesh

Sony Jalarajan Raj, Mohammad Sahid Ullah, Rawshon Akhter

Media and communications technologies play a significant role in disaster
management procedures in regards to the mobilization of resources in
emergency situations. While the dissemination of warning messages relayed
via broadcast technologies have had some positive outcomes in terms of
reducing casualties in emergency situations in Bangladesh, there remain some
specific problems in regards to the manner in which these messages are
distributed within this developing nation. These problems are addressed
within this paper. Examining the existing cyclonic warning dissemination
system and the manner in which warning information is distributed and
received, this study addresses citizen responses to mediated warning
messages in the vulnerable coastal regions of Bangladesh. The results
indicate that attitudes towards mediated warnings held by Bangladeshi
citizens in these environs differ depending upon their access to media, type
of dwelling and differing levels of literacy. This st
 udy also provides recommendations for media professionals and policymakers
in regards to disseminating more effective warnings to the inhabitants of
Bangladesh's cyclone-prone coastal belt.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)A03/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29A03/>

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COMMENT

Science journalism in the age of crowd: interviews

Filippo Bonaventura

The purpose of this commentary is extending and enriching the discussion
raised in the "Science Journalism and Power in the 21st Century" workshop (
http://www.mappetrieste.it/cms/workshop), held last month in the context of
MAPPE (http://www.mappetrieste.it/) project at SISSA, Trieste.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)C01/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29C01/>

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Science journalism and social debate on modernization risks

Pieter Maeseele

Technoscientific risks have been creating a growing social demand for
participation in the scientific citizenship. This interview will emphasize
that decision making (and so, in a more general sense, democracy) in the
knowledge society requires new mediatic forums and new communication
processes suitable to the highly multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of
modern social debates. It argues that a new research agenda for risk
conflicts, and a more neutral role for science journalism, are needed.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)C01/Jcom0904(2010)C02<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29C01/Jcom0904%282010%29C02>

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Climate change as a 'grand narrative'

Anabela Carvalho

Climate change is a multi-faceted issue. It relies on deep scientific bases,
but merges with politics, economics, ethics and culture in a complex and
strongly nonlinear social debate. This interview focuses on the
relationships between public communication on climate change (with emphasis
on the so-called ‘new media’) and the decision making processes. It argues
that more productive and sustainable forms of communication on climate
change are needed due to problems related with validation of information in
the Web.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)C01/Jcom0904(2010)C03<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29C01/Jcom0904%282010%29C03>

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Participatory medicine as a new way to produce medical knowledge

Denise Silber

Public communication on health issues on the Internet is not only a matter
of popularization of medical information. It deeply deals with narration,
conversation and dialogue, which are typical values in the Web 2.0. This
interview will emphasize that blogs, forums, wiki are new ways in which
population has been reconstructing and integrating medical knowledge. These
ways are re-defining medical knowledge by means of unhinging the standard
medical communication practices, based on a linear diffusion of knowledge
form experts to laypeople.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)C01/Jcom0904(2010)C04<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29C01/Jcom0904%282010%29C04>

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REVIEW

When boffins go POP: Eduard Kaeser expects that the bubble of spectacular
science may burst

Joachim Allgaier

E. Kaeser, Pop Science: Essays zur Wissenschaftskultur, Schwabe reflexe
(2009)

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904(2010)R01/<http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/04/Jcom0904%282010%29R01/>

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