Preserving Science News in an Online World
36:13 minutes
How can journalists and bloggers avoid some of the pitfalls of communicating science in an online world? Should a website’s comments section be moderated, or removed altogether? How has social media changed the blogosphere? A panel of experts joins Ira Flatow to discuss.
Segment Guests
John Hawks
John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bora Zivkovic
Bora Zivkovic is blog editor at Scientific American; founder of A Blog Around The Clock; and organizer at ScienceOnline in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Dominique Brossard
Dominique Brossard is a professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.
Related Links
- SciAm: A Blog Around The Clock
- John Hawks Weblog
- Researchers: Online science news needs careful study (U Wisc Press Release)
- Science, New Media, and the Public (abstract)
- Online communication biases upon the public perception of science
- Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all.
- ScienceOnline conference
Meet the Producer
About Denise Chow
@denisechowDenise Chow is a sci-tech editor at Live Science and a former associate producer for Science Friday.