Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age (Baywood's Technical Communications) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895038986 ISBN 13: 9780895038982

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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 Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver

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Gross, Alan; Buehl, Jonathan

From the Inside Flap

"This is a timely volume, introducing scholars of rhetoric to the often radical changes that scientists are experiencing in their internal and external communication practices as a result of digital media technologies. Anyone who is serious about understanding scientific argument today needs to be familiar with the rich multimedia environment available to those who make and contest scientific claims in such fora as online journal articles, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and tweets. The diverse case studies in this book are well designed to acquaint readers with some of the most significant developments to occur in science communication in recent years." Leah Ceccarelli, Professor, Department of Communication University of Washington, Seattle "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. Spanning science-related blogs and podcasts through open access notebooks, data visualization tools, and online peer review, the book offers insight into how the Internet influences the generation of scientific knowledge and reconfigures the relations among varied publics, scientists, and technological interfaces. 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 Keränen, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver "Science and the Internet is the right book at the right time. The print revolution made science and modernity possible. The digital revolution, perhaps more sweeping yet, is now reshaping both in fundamental ways. This reshaping is far from over, but it is not too early to begin the important work of critical inquiry. The Internet is dynamic and protean, but it is not new. We have decades of evidence, googolplexes of data, about its impact on society and on knowledge, and the contributors to this volume make the best of that evidence. They are the right voices at the right time, a perfect mix of major figures who predate the digital revolution, to give us the long view, and digital natives who grew up in its throes, to give us the insider view. Together, they probe the social-digital impact on science, on modernity, and on the connective tissue that binds modernity to science, knowledge. Their work is epoch charting. It is also bracing, brainy fun. The authors are not just fine scholars but ripping good storytellers as well. Every chapter tells a tale of the social, intellectual, and political dimensions of phenomena in the very recent history of science, and, since these authors are far from timid, they give us critical morals with each story. Science and the Internet has the first position on my newest bookshelf and gives that bookshelf its name." Randy Allen Harris, Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Communication Design, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Canada "This volume tells us a lot about how scientific knowledge is being shaped by emerging rhetorical patterns. The essays provide insight into what happens when new strategies of communication are grafted onto older ones. It is, of course, fitting that these authors are innovating within their own field. I look forward to using these materials in my graduate and advanced undergraduate classes." John Lyne, University of Pittsburgh

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895038986
• ISBN 13: 9780895038982
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Gross Alan, Buehl Jonathan