North Carolina Science Blogging Conference in BlogTogether
OK, so I'm new to blogging, and not very good at it. But today I discovered that the first ever "science blogging conference" happened last January. I've just started going through the list of talks, attendees, etc. Looks like fun, and like something that we need to think about in the science communication world.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
Frames in media coverage of science
Matt Nisbet, a former Cornell student (now teaching at American Univ.), published an essay in SCIENCE this week about the images of science.
Read it at http://encompass.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/checkIP.cgi?access=gateway_standard%26url=http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1126/science.1142030
(if this link doesn't work, go to Cornell Library, go to the magazine SCIENCE, go to 6 April 2007 issue, look for Nisbet's name)
Then, read his blog to see how people have been responding to the piece:
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2007/04/dont_be_a_dodo_bloggers_weigh.php
Read it at http://encompass.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/checkIP.cgi?access=gateway_standard%26url=http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1126/science.1142030
(if this link doesn't work, go to Cornell Library, go to the magazine SCIENCE, go to 6 April 2007 issue, look for Nisbet's name)
Then, read his blog to see how people have been responding to the piece:
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2007/04/dont_be_a_dodo_bloggers_weigh.php
Drug advertising
Celebrex Commercial Draws Criticism - New York Times
So, we've talked very briefly in class about "direct to consumer," or DTC, drug advertising. There's a new development in which a Celebrex ad is being criticized for being misleading. What I find interesting is the ad's format -- 2.5 minutes, rather than the usual 30 or 60 seconds. You can provide much more information in that kind of time. Take a look at the ad, at celebrex.com, and see what you think.
So, we've talked very briefly in class about "direct to consumer," or DTC, drug advertising. There's a new development in which a Celebrex ad is being criticized for being misleading. What I find interesting is the ad's format -- 2.5 minutes, rather than the usual 30 or 60 seconds. You can provide much more information in that kind of time. Take a look at the ad, at celebrex.com, and see what you think.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Science in the movies
A recent New York Times article talks about how science gets into the movies...or, rather, how it doesn't:
Dark Matter, a Tale of Power and Intrigue in the Lab, Based on Real Life
The story describes how a movie has been made of the tale of a science graduate student who became upset when he didn't win a prize and killed five people in a shooting rampage. The point of the story is that science has human drama, and so you can make a movie of it. But the movie is not "about" the science.
So, does that make it a science story or not?
Dark Matter, a Tale of Power and Intrigue in the Lab, Based on Real Life
The story describes how a movie has been made of the tale of a science graduate student who became upset when he didn't win a prize and killed five people in a shooting rampage. The point of the story is that science has human drama, and so you can make a movie of it. But the movie is not "about" the science.
So, does that make it a science story or not?
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