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The Science-Media Interface: On the Relation Between Internal and External Science Communication

Contains index pp. 161-74

Series: Knowledge and Information

ISBN 978-3-11-077654-6 (pdf); 978-3-11-077636-2 (print)

CC BY

"The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely on scientific publications to advance research but also the general public which demands scientific knowledge for its forthcoming. Major suppliers of scientific knowledge are the researchers themselves, science communicators and science journalists - each of which choose their very own approaches to selection, presentation and communication of science, often depending on the target group. Although different in their goals and approaches, digital media in particular has led to great overlaps which result in interwoven relationships equally affecting both external and internal forms of science communication. This edited book will describe, quantify and critically discuss the interplay between publisher- and journalism-driven science communication and its effect on the scholarly communication system, especially on the measures of impact evaluation." (Publisher description)
Editorial: The Science-Media Interface: On the relation between internal and external science communication / Irene Broer, Steffen Lemke, Athanasios Mazarakis, Isabella Peters, and Christian Zinke-Wehlmann, vii
1 A scientometric-inspired framework to analyze EurekAlert! press releases / Enrique Orduña-Malea and Rodrigo Costas, 1
2 Curating, transforming, constructing science news: The newsmaking routines of Science Media Center Germany / Irene Broer, 29
3 Preprints in the German news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative mixed-method analysis / Arno Simons and Alexander Schniedermann, 53
4 What drives researchers to look up research publications they found in the news? / Max Brede, Athanasios Mazarakis, and Isabella Peters, 79
5 Path model of the interplay between the promotion and the received attention of research articles / Steffen Lemke, Athanasios Mazarakis, and Isabella Peters, 117
6 Repercussions of media coverage on science? A critical assessment of a popular thesis / Markus Lehmkuhl, Nikolai Promies, and Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann, 139