This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to
produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research …

In recent years, science dissemination has moved from printed to digital formats, and digital
genres such as free access videos, along with their own multimodal characteristics (eg …

At present, Web 2.0 technologies are making traditional research genres evolve and form
complex genre assemblage with other genres online. This book takes the perspective of …

Crowdfunding is a novel mechanism for garnering monetary support from the online public,
and increasingly it is being used to fund science. This article reports a small-scale study …

Tweetorials, long Twitter threads to communicate complex concepts, are becoming
increasingly popular among medical experts. While a few studies have analyzed tweetorials …

This introductory article to the special issue provides a brief theoretical introduction to
pragmatic research on the communication and dissemination of domain-specific knowledge …

Parascientific genres often do not abide by the established norms and conventions of
science communication in research articles (RAs) and they are not included in the RA. This …

Many expected federal public health agencies to provide timely and accurate information
about the COVID-19 pandemic. That did not happen. In response, physicians and …

As advances in digital media render new forms of knowledge dissemination, new genres in
the Internet are attracting increasing scholarly attention. Yet, although these genres have …

Riding the waves of media technologies, academia is leveraging various multimedia
platforms to publicize research and bolster public prestige, of which the Nature Podcast …