Conference Presentations by Andrea Rubin
Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology has been
focused on non-experts and me... more Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology has been
focused on non-experts and mediators. Scientists as communicators has not been explored yet although they are involved in communicative practices. The SHARPER project, in the “European Researchers Night” framework, carried out a study to evaluate the researcher communication strategies. During the 2014-2017 events, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected using observation and interviews. Moreover, information on the event organization, management and development have been recorded. The results showed different strategies that scientists used based on the researchers culture and skills adopting particular communication styles and tools. In this presentation it will be proposed results coming from quantitative and qualitative methods used during the first and the second wave of the research.
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The social sciences rise to the challenge of «datification». The recent ICT technology developmen... more The social sciences rise to the challenge of «datification». The recent ICT technology development have increased the amount of info potentially available for social research. The interactions present everyday in social networks site are the privilege object of analysis of the computational social sciences. Analysis of interactions in social network have monopolized the methodological debate and empirical research. Beside the growing role of social networking platforms, there is the effort to digitize the most important collections of texts in the world (newspaper, libraries, collections, etc.). In particular, daily press started a fast digitalization process. The digitization of millions of texts presents an opportunity still too often overlooked. This small contribution represents a first draft to open a critical discourse on the advantages and limitations of computational social science that use journalistic texts as the main source of data.
Furthermore, it highlights how the issue of Big Data brings to the assumption of a new "paradigm" for the social sciences that definitively determine the road to a new methodological synergy.
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Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) has been focused on non-experts... more Research on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) has been focused on non-experts and mediators so far. The role of
scientists as communicators has not been extensively explored yet although most of them are involved in communicative practices.
To address this issue we have developed a study aimed to evaluate the researcher communication strategies in a public event. The analysis was
carried out as part of SHARPER (SHaring Researcher's Passions for Excellence and Results), an Italian project developed on the framework of
the Marie Slodowska Curie Action European Researcher's Night.
During these events, from 2014 to 2016, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected.
Moreover were recorded information on the event organization, management and development. All the outcomes were collected using
ethnographic observation, a type of qualitative research method that combines immersive observation and directed one-on-one interviews.
The results of the study showed several communication strategies that can be combined based on the researchers skill to adopt different
communication styles and instruments. Main findings underline different approach regarding the contests, the formats and the contents of the
speeches. These dimensions were used to design a typology that show when the researchers are or not in tune with the audience shading a light
on common communication gap.
Overall the outcomes of this work bring knowledge in the Public Communication of Science and Technology field.
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Studies on Public Communication of Science (PCST) have traditionally focused either on the cases ... more Studies on Public Communication of Science (PCST) have traditionally focused either on the cases of "deviation," i.e. cases in which scientists face directly the audience by skipping the usual stages of scientific communication, or, in line with relevant theoretical prospects on cases of technoscientific controversies. The extra-ordinary science is over-exposed by the media compared to the attention dedicated by the same to the “normal science”. Sometimes this causes a conflictual relationship between the media and researchers. However, scientists and researchers have to deal with the limitations of mass media mechanics - above all the newsworthiness - and with the specific limitations of each medium (radio, tv, disclosure magazines an the Web). This crystallization process doesn't appear to be overcome, not even through multimedial channels. This paper aims to reflect on the possibilities, strategies and tools to communicate researchers daily activities, i.e. those cases in which research is not occupied with crisis situations, nor it is involved in processes aiming to defining scientific boundaries. A good example can be found in non-specialist forms of public involvement in the scientific process (public engagement),
also supported by institutional initiatives. In this study we try to understand the new trends in the PCST and its
possible future developments. Therefore, starting by analysing the trend of scientific news presented by the media, up to the recent case of involvement of a non- expert audience in an RNA study - which led non-expert citizens to co-sign a scientific paper for the first time- this paper will try to comprehend the new trends in the PCST department and its possible developments.
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Rivista Il Mulino, 2024
La percezione pubblica dell’IA è ancora poco esplorata. Eppure gli italiani si aspettano una rego... more La percezione pubblica dell’IA è ancora poco esplorata. Eppure gli italiani si aspettano una regolamentazione trasparente che renda l’innovazione più sicura e fruibile.
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TuttoScienze - La Stampa, 2021
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Intervista al sociologo della scienza Massimano Bucchi
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Tuttoscienze - La Stampa, 11 marzo 2020, 2020
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Incontro, 2019
Indagine comparata Italia-Campania sulla condizione giovanile
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TuttoScienze - La Stampa, 2019
Intervista alla fotografa scientifica Felice Frankel
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Rivista Micron, 2019
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Museologia Scientifica Memorie, 2019
In recent years (2017) there has been a significant increase in participation in public science c... more In recent years (2017) there has been a significant increase in participation in public science communication activities. An important role is played by scientific museums, exhibitions and science festivals. Through a sample survey, Observa Science in Society studies, every year, the attitudes and behaviors of the public towards science and technology. A recent survey shows that 37% of Italian citizens annually attend a science museum or an exhibition. In addition to data on participation and attendance of the public, the paper also offers information on citizens’ expectations. What does the public ask of the museums? The results highlight the need to find in the museums spaces for meeting and dialogue with researchers and experts to hear the results of the research, the history of the collections and the objectives of the exhibitions from their voices. This perception indicates that museums are not only exhibitors of established science but institutions able to operate for diffusion of science through cultural mediation and diffusion of new scientific knowledge.
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Book Reviews by Andrea Rubin
JCOM - Journal of Science Communication, 2021
In the year of the PCST Conference that brings together scholars and experts in public communicat... more In the year of the PCST Conference that brings together scholars and experts in public communication of science, Routledge published the new edition of the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, edited by Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench. The book, in its third edition, seeks to update and define the field of study and application of science communication from both a theoretical and empirical point of view mostly in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic which undoubtedly represents an event of historical significance that cannot fail to question scholars on the medium and long-term effects.
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focused on non-experts and mediators. Scientists as communicators has not been explored yet although they are involved in communicative practices. The SHARPER project, in the “European Researchers Night” framework, carried out a study to evaluate the researcher communication strategies. During the 2014-2017 events, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected using observation and interviews. Moreover, information on the event organization, management and development have been recorded. The results showed different strategies that scientists used based on the researchers culture and skills adopting particular communication styles and tools. In this presentation it will be proposed results coming from quantitative and qualitative methods used during the first and the second wave of the research.
Furthermore, it highlights how the issue of Big Data brings to the assumption of a new "paradigm" for the social sciences that definitively determine the road to a new methodological synergy.
scientists as communicators has not been extensively explored yet although most of them are involved in communicative practices.
To address this issue we have developed a study aimed to evaluate the researcher communication strategies in a public event. The analysis was
carried out as part of SHARPER (SHaring Researcher's Passions for Excellence and Results), an Italian project developed on the framework of
the Marie Slodowska Curie Action European Researcher's Night.
During these events, from 2014 to 2016, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected.
Moreover were recorded information on the event organization, management and development. All the outcomes were collected using
ethnographic observation, a type of qualitative research method that combines immersive observation and directed one-on-one interviews.
The results of the study showed several communication strategies that can be combined based on the researchers skill to adopt different
communication styles and instruments. Main findings underline different approach regarding the contests, the formats and the contents of the
speeches. These dimensions were used to design a typology that show when the researchers are or not in tune with the audience shading a light
on common communication gap.
Overall the outcomes of this work bring knowledge in the Public Communication of Science and Technology field.
also supported by institutional initiatives. In this study we try to understand the new trends in the PCST and its
possible future developments. Therefore, starting by analysing the trend of scientific news presented by the media, up to the recent case of involvement of a non- expert audience in an RNA study - which led non-expert citizens to co-sign a scientific paper for the first time- this paper will try to comprehend the new trends in the PCST department and its possible developments.
Popular Articles by Andrea Rubin
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Book Reviews by Andrea Rubin
focused on non-experts and mediators. Scientists as communicators has not been explored yet although they are involved in communicative practices. The SHARPER project, in the “European Researchers Night” framework, carried out a study to evaluate the researcher communication strategies. During the 2014-2017 events, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected using observation and interviews. Moreover, information on the event organization, management and development have been recorded. The results showed different strategies that scientists used based on the researchers culture and skills adopting particular communication styles and tools. In this presentation it will be proposed results coming from quantitative and qualitative methods used during the first and the second wave of the research.
Furthermore, it highlights how the issue of Big Data brings to the assumption of a new "paradigm" for the social sciences that definitively determine the road to a new methodological synergy.
scientists as communicators has not been extensively explored yet although most of them are involved in communicative practices.
To address this issue we have developed a study aimed to evaluate the researcher communication strategies in a public event. The analysis was
carried out as part of SHARPER (SHaring Researcher's Passions for Excellence and Results), an Italian project developed on the framework of
the Marie Slodowska Curie Action European Researcher's Night.
During these events, from 2014 to 2016, information about researcher expectation, preparation and communication strategies were collected.
Moreover were recorded information on the event organization, management and development. All the outcomes were collected using
ethnographic observation, a type of qualitative research method that combines immersive observation and directed one-on-one interviews.
The results of the study showed several communication strategies that can be combined based on the researchers skill to adopt different
communication styles and instruments. Main findings underline different approach regarding the contests, the formats and the contents of the
speeches. These dimensions were used to design a typology that show when the researchers are or not in tune with the audience shading a light
on common communication gap.
Overall the outcomes of this work bring knowledge in the Public Communication of Science and Technology field.
also supported by institutional initiatives. In this study we try to understand the new trends in the PCST and its
possible future developments. Therefore, starting by analysing the trend of scientific news presented by the media, up to the recent case of involvement of a non- expert audience in an RNA study - which led non-expert citizens to co-sign a scientific paper for the first time- this paper will try to comprehend the new trends in the PCST department and its possible developments.
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Nel corso dei primi due anni si offrirà una formazione di base multidisciplinare in ambito filosofico, giuridico, storico, e dell’economia applicata, che permetterà di orientarsi, a partire dalla metà del
secondo anno, alla scelta di uno dei tre percorsi previsti: 1. politico-sociale, 2. scientifico-ambientale, 3. filosofico-pratico.
Le competenze acquisite in uno di questi ambiti verranno ulteriormente sviluppate durante un consistente tirocinio (225 ore) da svolgersi presso aziende private, istituzioni culturali, organizzazioni non governative e del terzo settore, enti regolatori nazionali e sovranazionali, con i quali il corso dimlaurea ha istituito specifiche convenzioni.
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