Pikas research day 2011

Communication in science: toward a descriptive conceptual framework Christina K. Pikas Why Communication is vital to science; understanding how communication works enables us to support scientific work. The existing body of research describing communication in science is distributed across many different disciplines, sometimes not co-citing or building upon one another. Preliminary framework Scientists are using new social computing technologies (e.g., blogs, microblogs, wikis), but studies of new technologies are often done as if the new technology was created in a vacuum, and not an evolution of the communication system. Any study risks becoming dated quickly because the technologies change as do the uses New technologies allow scientists to do different things but they also help scientists do the same things faster, over longer distances, among other things. Scientists adapt the technologies to their needs but also adapt to the new technologies Courtesy of SergioTudelacc-by http://www.flickr.com/photos/27983776@N03/3479314094/ What and how A conceptual framework provides the dimensions useful to understand communication in science. The preliminary framework was developed through a review of the literature and preliminary analysis of social computing tools in use in science. Courtesy Storm Crypt cc-by-nc-ndhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/21366409@N00/3040587311/ Testing and improving the framework Two in-depth case studies of two specific social computing technologies used in geosciences. ,[object Object]

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