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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Mendel, J | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Riesch, H | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-10T14:33:41Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-10T14:33:41Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-10-13 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mendel, J. and Riesch, H. (2017) ‘Gadflies Biting Science Communication: Engagement, Tricksters, and Ambivalence Online’, Science Communication, 39(5), pp. 673–684. doi: 10.1177/1075547017736068. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1075-5470 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15250 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Large-scale online science communication and engagement projects can assume an overly ordered and sterile type of online public space or civil society. Against this, the paper offers a vision of more carnivalesque spaces for online science communication and engagement. Participants in these spaces taking the role of tricksters disrupting the status quo might offer new opportunities for engagement, play and politics online: the online public sphere for discussing science is broken, and we should look for ways to break it better. Acknowledging the limitations of a trickster-like approach, we also consider the ambivalence inherent in carnivalesque play as engagement practice. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We are grateful for the helpful comments on this paper from Linda Billings, Sarah Rachael Davies, and Susanna Priest. Simon Weaver helped us with our work on tricksters. We have benefited from valuable feedback on a previous version of this paper received from participants at a University of Copenhagen event on STS approaches to science communication (particularly Felicity Mellor's detailed comments) and when presenting it to Dundee University's Society Research Group; Data & Society Research Institute's Databite No. 99 event helped inspire our discussion of ambivalence. Mendel benefited from Dundee University School of Social Sciences Research Committee funding, which assisted with some travel. We are particularly grateful to the badscience bloggers who participated in work related to this, and discussed this related work with us. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | blogging | - |
| dc.subject | Internet | - |
| dc.subject | tricksters | - |
| dc.subject | trolling | - |
| dc.subject | ambivalence | - |
| dc.subject | agenda setting | - |
| dc.title | Gadflies biting science communication: engagement, tricksters and ambivalence online | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547017736068 | - |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | Science Communication | - |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1552-8545 | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Sociology Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers | |
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