fresh look at social media for science communication (#decodesci)

A FRESH LOOKDecodingScience - March 15, 2014

at social media for #scicomm

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I simply don’t have time for this

RETURN INVESTMENT

so what?Depends on the audience …!

Everyone wants to know !why this matters to them.

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so what?

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SOCIETY

SCIENCE

SELF

www.experiment.com/

When I see tweets like these, I get really happy. They are

ordinary observations but from kids who would NEVER have

thought about them before; the locations (urban spaces,

especially), the casual language, the sense of affection or

admiration for the birds - they give me a sense that I've

wormed my way into someone's head.!

- Margaret Rubega

MSNBC The Big Idea - January 12, 2014

Where did you get your news yesterday?

MSNBC The Big Idea - January 12, 2014

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Slide&of&NY&Tweet&Loca1ons

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SOCIETY

SCIENCE

SELF

socialsocial media is

RECEIVER

SIGNALER

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transmitperform

react

network effects

Pomacentrus amboinensis!

Pomacentrus moluccensis!

Siebeck et al (2010) Current Biology

Ultr

avio

let s

pect

rum

Siebeck et al (2010) Current Biology

signal vs noise

There is no such thing !as information overload!only filter failure.

- Clay Shirky

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No one can personally comprehend nearly as

much of what is known to science as it makes sense

for them - as consumers, as health-care recipients, as democratic citizens - to

accept as known by science. - Dan Kahan

familiarity

http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists - drawings L to R by Amy, Andrea, and Beth

http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists - drawings L to R by Amy, Andrea, and Beth

http://lookslikescience.tumblr.com/

What if scientists and the science-knowledgeable stepped out of their science communities !and became trusted !nerd nodes?

- Emily Willingham

Modified from Noshir Contractor (2013) (c) David Krackhardt

Isolation

Modified from Noshir Contractor (2013) (c) David Krackhardt

Popularity

Modified from Noshir Contractor (2013) (c) David Krackhardt

“Closeness”

Modified from Noshir Contractor (2013) (c) David Krackhardt

Degrees of separation

“Betweeness”

Modified from Noshir Contractor (2013) (c) David Krackhardt

Connection among groups

- Danielle Lee @DNLee5

National Science & Technology !

News Service

- Mónica Feliú-Mójer @moefeliu

Ciencia Puerto Rico

networks

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Illustration by G.A. Harker. From Don Quixote / by Miguel de Cervantes ; retold by James Baldwin

understand the

context

build better

networks

make art, !take chances, !analyze the

results

A FRESH LOOK!for science communication