Nice meeting all of you on Friday. Everyone reflected
so thoughtfully on the seminar as it relates to their own academic interests. I
sense the caliber of the instructors and students in this seminar will keep me
on my toes.
I’m a first year School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Ph.D student. I learned about STS last semester and it really struck a chord
with me. I used to write about natural sciences as a reporter and work with
researchers on science communication outreach projects. Among researchers, I
encountered a wide range in willingness to communicate with the public and in
ideas about when, how or even whether uncertainties in data should be
publically discussed. I’m interested in how interactions between credentialed
experts (i.e. researchers), experience-based experts and the general public
influence the problems answered and methods used by researchers. For the class
research/review project, I’m thinking about exploring some version of the
following question:
When a researcher doubles as a science communicator by, for
example, producing a podcast, Tumblr or blog for the general public, how does explaining
research in their field influence the questions they become interested in or
how they reflect on their own practices?
I welcome any related ideas anyone has to share!
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