Science journalism is an occupation that, despite being needed now more than ever,
struggles to do its job in a fast-changing and challenging media landscape. In a world where …

Climate change has rarely been out of the public spotlight in the first decade of this century.
The high‐profile international meetings and controversies such as 'climategate'have …

This study examines contemporary gatekeeping as it intersects with the evolving
technological affordances of social media platforms and the ongoing negotiation of …

In many countries the public's main source of information about science and technology is
the mass media. Unfortunately, in recent years traditional journalism has experienced a …

Background Social media can act as an important platform for debating, discussing, and
disseminating information about vaccines. Our objectives were to map and describe the …

Abstract In the 1920s, John Dewey and Walter Lippmann both wrote important books
examining whether the public was capable of playing a constructive role in policy …

Neuroscience research on sex difference is currently a controversial field, frequently
accused of purveying a 'neurosexism'that functions to naturalise gender inequalities …

Researchers engaging in science communication tend to present information that they find
most important. However, understanding the level of prior knowledge and interest of a target …

As consensus towards teaching science for citizenship grows, so grows the need to prepare
science teachers to pursue this goal. Implementation of socioscientific issues (SSI) is one of …

Although the scientific community increasingly recognizes that its communication with the
public may shape civic engagement with science, few studies have characterized how this …