The Future of Science Bloggingand #OpenSciLogs презентация

of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.”
Comments (?)

The “unedited voice of a person” (?)

“less formal, more conversational, often with no traditional reporting (but never without research), and aimed at a small but passionate audience.”

Blog = an online tool for publishing one’s thoughts, stories, news, links, visual materials, etc. in an extended form, on an ongoing basis

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmakesaweblogaweblog.html

Dave Winer, Scripting News

https://medium.com/@dankennedy_nu/blog-like-a-journalist-8a4acac100c0

Mike Licht (CC-BY)

hit the mainstream.” – Mary Garden, Defining blog: A fool’s errand or a necessary undertaking, Journalism 2012
The uses and genres of “web blogs” have become so diverse that they have become broadly a “socio-technical format, whose convenience and general utility support a variety of uses.” - Herring et al., Weblogs as a bridging genre, 2005

reports, comments upon, investigates, aggregates or otherwise deals with science, scientific research, science communication, science policy, science in society and/or other science-related concepts or events (Wilkins, 2008).

Culture Wars, Dover Trial
~2008 – Diversification of blogging genres – ResearchBlogging
2011 – Rise of blog networks at traditional media organizations (Scientific American, Discover, PloS, etc.)
2012 – Social networks for community building
Today – Blog as the writer’s 'home' online
More attention to the journalist / blogger as 'personality‘
‘Need for Niche’

conversational and open to feedback

TRENDS IN SCIENCE BLOGGING

Science bloggers are increasingly handing conversations and content over to others, as well as asking for feedback via social media.

communication and science news

to social media

“Today, quick updates, links etc. are done mainly on social media and many bloggers use the traditional blogging software only for longer, more thorough, one could even say more ‘professional’ writing.”
– BoraZ, 2012

We can see different “communities” here

out the kind of science, scientific publishing and science news we want in the future.

journalism
Sources of science news
Curation
Critical analysis
Discussion of science missing from mainstream media
Opening up the science research process
Citizen science, etc.
Adding value and advancing the conversation around scientific issues

xkcd.com/386/

"I spend way [emphasis] more time correcting misinformation than I would like to." #MySciBlog

JOURNALIST DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO DO ANYMORE.“ - #MYSCIBLOG RESEARCH INTERVIEW

Puschmann:

44 bloggers at SciLogs.de

of science writing:

of the week are having far reaching implications for the impact of science blogging.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Flickr.com

EXPLOSION OF ALTERNATIVE COVERAGE OF SCIENCE

about, and they're doing a good job with, I'll avoid that.”
“[P]eople aren't going to come to my blog for the news. They're going to go to a news outlet… So, if I'm going to write about something that's current, it'll only be [if] I can explore something, different about it."
"I couldn't really find out the facts myself, from reading the news, so I thought, I'll go ahead and kind of dig it out..."
"[I] go through lesser-known journals...for little hidden jems...that wouldn't have made it into the news"
“[L]ooking at the other blogs...I think it's important that we cover kind of smaller things that aren't always picked up on"
"I really don’t feel like I’m a slave to the news cycle."
"If I wasn’t going to have all of those crazy resources [and be able to] interview multiple people [...] it had to be DIFFERENT."
#MySciBlog Interviews

READ, IS, THAT YOU GET TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE PERSON WHO’S WRITING IT, AND WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS ARE, AND THAT THEY KIND OF INTERPRET THINGS, A BIT MORE.” - #MYSCIBLOG RESEARCH INTERVIEW

for what I can turn into a blog post, and which ideas won’t work.”
– science blogger Signe Cane

corner of the internet
Not replacing science journalism, but it’s increasingly a vital component of science journalism.
The science blog is increasingly the journalist’s path into science, the scientist’s path into journalism, etc.
Science bloggers are the new gatekeepers?

Science Book A Day

IS SCIENCE’ BUT FOR PEOPLE TO BUILD AN UNDERSTANDING AND ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE IN THEIR OWN WAY.” - SCIENCE BLOGGER GEORGE ARANDA, AKA @POPSCIGUYOZ

MORE EXCITING AS A WRITER, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. YOU CAN DO ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL EXPERIMENTS, YOU CAN TELL STORIES IN INTERESTING WAYS… I MEAN YOU STILL HAVE TO DO RESEARCH, AND YOU STILL HAVE TO BE – I’M A JOURNALIST, SO, MY STUFF IS VERY RESEARCHED AND VERY FACT-BASED, BUT THEN THERE’S THIS UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST WRITE. - #MYSCIBLOG RESEARCH INTERVIEW

are taken as seriously as the blogs of professional science journalists?

Rise of networked scientist bloggers
More community-based feedback, fact-checking, editing and collaborative data blogging?
Journalism/Media training for scientists
Opportunity to open up the process of science via blogging

an integral component of science journalism
Building one’s portfolio
Opening up the journalism process
Enhancing amount of diversity of science news coverage, and web traffic, at legacy media outlets (National Geographic, newspapers, etc.)

PUBLICATIONS ARE EMBRACING SOCIAL MEDIA, AND EVIDENCE IS PILING UP THAT THIS METHOD OF COMMUNICATING SHOULD SOON SEEM TRADITIONAL TO SCIENTISTS.” - DOMINIQUE BROSSARD

while at the same time paying for more in-depth science blogging and fostering public engagement?

School of Mass Communication

Traditional Media Business Model – Crowd Funding

Open Notebook Science

other science bloggers, journalists, educators, students
Tone: Open to new ideas and directions, transparent, participatory
Platforms: SciLogs blog posts for updates and final story; Google docs or other document file sharing for raw materials, notes, references, links etc.; Social media / Wiki for audience engagement
Content: In-depth, critical analysis of a scientific issue or topic that deserves more attention, that readers express an interest in, etc.
Conversation: The goal is to spark conversation and participation in the ongoing story, to spread materials, quotes, and story ideas

blogger every 30 days.
Selected blogger, once funded, begins the reporting phase. For each story project, the funded blogger provides all raw data, notes, source information and source contact information (if permission granted from source) in a public Google Doc (or similar public document sharing tool), on an ongoing basis.
For each story project, the selected blogger is strongly encouraged to have another blogger, journalist or editor fact-check (for a share of the funding or authorship.)
For the duration of each story project, the lead blogger posts weekly short blog updates.
Anyone can contribute story ideas, story content and/or multimedia to each OpenSciLogs story project, and are encouraged to claim partial authorship.

what stories they want to see about science in the media
Collaboration on science blogo-journalism and investigation of scientific topics across different languages?
Crowd-funding of research paired with science communication?

will help fund?
Who will participate?
Finding media partners
Targeted social media promotion is key
a significant portion of the time and effect in a crowd-funding campaign – Need 100 views for 1 donation

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News values, Quizlet
Blue Linckia Starfish CC BY-SA 3.0, Richard Ling
xkcd.com/386/
Magnifying Glass – PublicDomainPictures
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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Flickr.com
Mike Licht (CC-BY)
Illustration: Dusan Petricic for The Scientist
Gideon Burton (Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
Will Blog for Money, Voxeros, Flickr.com
Crowd, PartiallyHere, DeviantArt
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