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Communication

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There are several call number ranges for Scientific Communication located in several libraries. One call number range is Q 223 in Baker/Berry Library (Berry Level 4). Some of the Q's located in Kresge Library are also on Scientific Communication. There may also be other relevant material in other libraries. Always check the online catalog. Useful subject headings with which to search the online catalog:

  • communication in science
  • science in mass media
  • science news
  • communication of technical information
  • science films
  • Cover artThe craft of scientific communication by Joseph E. Harmon; Alan G. Gross
    • Book
    Call Number: Dana Biomedical Library Q 223 .H37 2010
    ISBN: 9780226316628
    The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best to convey their research to general and professional audiences. The Craft of Scientific Communication will teach science students and scientists alike how to improve the clarity, cogency, and communicative power of their words and images.
  • Cover artHandbook of public communication of science and technology by Massimiano Bucchi, Brian Trench, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Q 223 .H344 2008
    ISBN: 9780415386173
    Comprehensive yet accessible, this key Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the fast growing and increasingly important area of public communication of science and technology, from both research and practical perspectives.
  • Cover ArtThe Oxford handbook of the science of science communication by Kathleen Hall Jamieson; Dan Kahan; Dietram A. Scheufele
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780190497620
    The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing media environment in which misinformation can elicit belief without corrective context and like minded individuals are prone to seek ideologically comforting information within their ownself-constructed media enclaves. Drawing on the expertise of leading science communication scholars from six countries, The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication not only charts the media landscape - from news and entertainment to blogs and films - but also examines the powers and perils of human biases - from the disposition to seek confirming evidence to the inclination to overweight endpoints in a trend line. ...
  • Cover artScientific communication in history by Brian C. Vickery
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Q 223 .V53 2000
    ISBN: 9780810835986
    Scientific Communication in History attempts to illuminate the various ways that science has developed and interacted with communication tools and mechanisms throughout the history of human thought. Drawing on a wide range of human history, Vickery presents a compelling and coherent background and probes into questions of science as a discipline, communication between scientists, its relationship to technology and to other academic and professional disciplines, and knowledge in general. ...
  • Cover artScience on the air: popularizers and personalities on radio and early television by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780226467597
    Mr. Wizard's World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR's Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and Our Friend the Atom. Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. ...
  • Cover artThe access principle: the case for open access to research and scholarship by John Willinsky
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Z 286 .O63 W55 2006
    ISBN: 0262232421
    An argument for extending the circulation of knowledge with new publishing technologies considers scholarly, economic, philosophical, and practical issues. Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest.
  • Cover artAssembling arguments: multimodal rhetoric & scientific discourse by Jonathan Buehl
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781611175615
    Scientific arguments--and indeed arguments in most disciplines--depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In Assembling Arguments, Jonathan Buehl offers a concentrated study of scientific argumentation that is sensitive to both the historical and theoretical possibilities of multi-modal persuasion as it advances two related claims.
  • Cover artLanguage as a scientific tool shaping scientific language across time and national tradition by Miles MacLeod [et. al.], eds.
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    Call Number: Dana Q 223 .L264 2016
    ISBN: 9781138101050
    Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes.
  • Cover artLearning to communicate in science and engineering by Mya Poe; Neal Lerner; Jennifer Craig; James Paradis
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780262310628
    Case studies and pedagogical strategies to help science and engineering students improve their writing and speaking skills while developing professional identities. To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engineers who do write well," requiring all students to take "communications-intensive" classes in which they learn from MIT faculty and writing instructors how to express their ideas in writing and in presentations. ...
  • Cover artScience blogging: the essential guide by Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire, Jason G. Goldman, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Popular Science Q 225 .S343 2016
    ISBN: 9780300197556
    Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience.

You can find articles about Science Communication in many publications. We have several journals which look at the subject. You can use a specific database such as Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) or the search box at the top of the page.

  • Journal of science communication
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    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.
  • Issue cover artScience communication
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Science Communication (SC) is an international, interdisciplinary journal that examines the nature of expertise, the diffusion of knowledge, and the communication of science and technology among professionals and to the public.
  • Resource logoCommunication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
  • Cover artDevices of curiosity: early cinema and popular science by Oliver Gaycken
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780199860708
    Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers made films about scientific topics for general audiences,inspired by a vision of cinema as an educational medium. This book traces the development of popular-science films over the first half of the silent era, from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around 1910.
  • Resource logoScience communication from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Communication by Sharon Dunwoody
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199756841
    Science-communication scholarship focuses on the hows, whys, and impacts of science messages aimed at nonscientific audiences. This popular audience emphasis distinguishes science communication from technical communication, which privileges audiences who work within scientific disciplines and who can negotiate the languages relevant to those disciplines. Science communication, in contrast, assumes an audience without expertise and, importantly, without a priori interest in the topic at hand. Thus, the field places great emphasis on aspects of messages that explain complex concepts and processes, that lure audiences through narrative—both verbal and visual—and that attend to the complex interplay of evidence with other variables that influence lay audiences’ understanding of such things as controversial science issues. ...
  • Cover artScience in print: essays on the history of science and the culture of print by Rima D. Apple; Gregory J. Downey; Stephen L. Vaughn, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Z 286 .S4 S35 2012
    ISBN: 9780299286149
    Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, college textbooks, and popular paperbacks have been instrumental to the development of what we think of today as "science." But just as the history of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books. In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which scientific debate takes place. Science in Print brings together scholars from the fields of print culture, environmental history, science and technology studies, medical history, and library and information studies.
  • Cover artScience research writing for non-native speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PE 1475 .G57 2010
    ISBN: 9781848163102
    This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It can also be used by English speakers and is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English. Science writing is much easier than it looks because the structure and language are conventional. The aim of this book is to help the reader discover a template or model for science research writing and then to provide the grammar and vocabulary tools needed to operate that model.
  • Cover artScientific Babel: how science was done before and after global English by Michael D. Gordin
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Q 223 .G67 2015
    ISBN: 9780226000299
    English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time--until the rise of English in the twentieth century.

Internet resource(s)

  • Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
    • Link
    The famed actor, writer and director wants to enhance the understanding of science by helping train the next generation of scientists and health professionals to communicate more effectively with the public, public officials, the media, and others outside their own discipline.
  • American Institutes for Research
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    Their overriding goal is to use the best science available to bring the most effective ideas and approaches to enhancing everyday life.
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    Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology
    • Link
    The Center's goal is to provide scientists and scientific institutions with the resources they need to have meaningful conversations with the public.
  • Effective Communication, Better Science from Scientific American blog
    • Link
    Science communication is part of a scientist's everyday life. Scientists must give talks, write papers and proposals, communicate with a variety of audiences, and educate others.
  • Public Communication of Science and Technology
    • Link
    The PCST Network seeks to promote new ideas, methods, intellectual and practical questions, and perspectives on the communication of science and technology. ...
  • Public Policy, Communicating Science, and Enhanced Access
    • Link
    The current COVID-19 crisis has highlighted tensions between government policy and the medical and scientific communities, influencing the public perception of expertise in these fields. The tension between science and belief systems has surfaced many times before during public health crises and other pivotal events in history, and archival material from these periods illuminate much of the push for science to legitimately influence policy and legislature. ...
  • This Study Shows from The Wiley Network This Study Shows
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    Discover This Study Shows, a podcast from Wiley digging into how to connect research and researchers to the world and transform the way science is shared. ...
  • Using Social Media to Promote Science from Nature Immunology
    Social media has transformed the way we communicate science. Here is a step-by-step guide to promote the science of your own study or of others as a thread on Twitter. ...

Keeping up with the journal literature

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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

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