Practices and promises of Facebook for science outreach: Becoming a “Nerd of Trust”

CR McClain - PLoS biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Arguably, the dissemination of science communication has recently entered a new age in
which science must compete for public attention with fake news, alternate facts, and …

Science Twitter—navigating change in science communication

R Insall - Nature reviews molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Twitter has become an increasingly influential tool in science communication. With the
ongoing changes in management, the future of Science Twitter is uncertain, and other …

[HTML][HTML] Into the digital wild: Utilizing Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook for effective science and environmental communication

S Pavelle, C Wilkinson - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the digital environment and the reliance placed upon
it by society. This case study reports on a project which sought to examine how the digital …

Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?

IM Côté, ES Darling - Facets, 2018 - facetsjournal.com
There have been strong calls for scientists to share their discoveries with society. Some
scientists have heeded these calls through social media platforms such as Twitter. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] A critical evaluation of science outreach via social media: its role and impact on scientists

C McClain, L Neeley - F1000Research, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The role of scientists in social media and its impact on their careers are not fully explored.
While policies and best practices are still fluid, it is concerning that discourse is often based …

Saw it on Facebook: The role of social media in facilitating science issue awareness

JM Mueller-Herbst, MA Xenos… - Social Media+ …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Spreading issue awareness about increasingly interdisciplinary scientific discoveries faces
progressively larger communication challenges due to the complexity, innovation pace, and …

The growth of social media in science: Social media has evolved from a mere communication channel to an integral tool for discussion and research collaboration

P Hunter - EMBO reports, 2020 - embopress.org
Social media has become so integral to today's world of work as well as leisure that its
effective use for communications and collaboration has become a science in itself. Scientists …

Building Buzz: (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments

X Liang, LYF Su, SK Yeo… - Journalism & mass …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Public communication about science faces novel challenges, including the increasing
complexity of research areas and the erosion of traditional journalistic infrastructures …

How are scientists using social media in the workplace?

K Collins, D Shiffman, J Rock - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Social media has created networked communication channels that facilitate interactions and
allow information to proliferate within professional academic communities as well as in …

An emerging form of public engagement with science: Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions on Reddit r/science

N Hara, J Abbazio, K Perkins - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Originally, online public engagement with science tended to be one directional—from
experts to the general population via news media. Such an arrangement allowed for little to …