Beyond cheerleading: navigating the boundaries of science journalism in South Africa

S Franks, M Joubert, R Wells, L van Zuydam - Journalism Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The
economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are …

Academic explanatory journalism and emerging COVID-19 science: how social media accounts amplify The Conversation's preprint coverage

A Fleerackers, M Riedlinger, A Bruns… - Media International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the public communication of COVID-19-related 'preprints'(unreviewed
research studies) in a digital media environment. To understand how preprint research flows …

Knowledge broker, trust broker, value broker: The roles of the Science Media Center during the COVID-19 pandemic

I Broer, L Pröschel - Studies in Communication Sciences, 2022 - hope.uzh.ch
In the communicative figuration of science communication (Hepp & Hasebrink, 2017), a
variety of actors, practices and orientations contribute to the mediation of scientific …

Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars' Tweet content

L Guenther, C Wilhelm, C Oschatz… - Public Understanding …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Scientists increasingly use Twitter for communication about science. The microblogging
service has been heralded for its potential to foster public engagement with science; thus …

Las redes sociales como vehículo del periodismo científico:'Scoping Review'

JIM Neira, MT Domínguez… - … : Revista científica en el …, 2023 - dialnet.unirioja.es
La crisis de desinformación en que se ha traducido la consolidación de Internet y la
explosión de las redes sociales ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia del periodismo …

Increasing culturally relevant science media coverage: exploring the outcomes of a collaboration in Puerto Rico

MIF Mójer, AI López… - JCOM, Journal of …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CienciaPR, a nonprofit that brings together the largest network of Puerto Rican scientists
and one of the largest networks of Hispanic/Latine scientists in the world, has collaborated …

A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism

M Bartleman, E Dubois, I Macdonald - Convergence, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Across a number of disciplines, hybridity is regularly invoked when two previously distinct
elements–whether objects, concepts, frameworks, practices, models, mediums or institutions …

[PDF][PDF] Unreviewed science in the news: why and how journalists cover preprint research

A Fleerackers - 2023 - summit.sfu.ca
This dissertation seeks to understand why and how journalists use preprints, or research
studies that are publicly available but have not yet been peer reviewed. Scholars post …

Innovative Journalism Practices: Insights for Reporting Science and Health Issues

N Fahmy, MA Attia - Palgrave Handbook of Science and Health Journalism, 2024 - Springer
This chapter reviews recent literature to provide an overview of the current state of the field
in technological innovation in journalism generally and science and health journalism …

Who Are Science and Health Journalists?

M McKinnon - Palgrave Handbook of Science and Health Journalism, 2024 - Springer
This chapter provides an overview of who reports science and health news. Journalists
perceive different roles for themselves, as do the community members they serve. How …