The assembly and circulation of science:

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Julia E. Kiernan
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Innovation ◽  
Major Stakeholder ◽  
Curricular Models ◽  
And Mathematics

This article positions narrative as a needed, but often lacking, communicative resource for science technologyengineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. While STEM curricula is quite effective at teaching studentsdiscipline-specific knowledge and preparing future generations of scientists to communicate within collegial discoursecommunities, there has been little attention paid to the importance of communicating effectively with publicaudiences—despite the fact that the public is a major stakeholder in scientific innovation. This article takes up this gapin current STEM curricula in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of best practices in communicatingscience, as well as the ways that these practices can be incorporated into academic programs. In achieving this goal, thisarticle draws upon current pedagogical and curricular models in communication studies in its examination of the waysstudents at a leading American undergraduate STEM institution are taught to engage with public audiences. Of specificimportance are the benefits of narrative in building bridges between academic and public stakeholders, particularly theability of narrative to increase comprehension, interest, and engagement when communicating science to non-expertaudiences.

The assembly and circulation of science:

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Julia E. Kernan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Programs ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Scientific Innovation ◽  
Major Stakeholder ◽  
Curricular Models ◽  
And Mathematics

This article positions narrative as a needed, but often lacking, communicative resource for science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. While STEM curricula is quite effective at teaching students discipline-specific knowledge and preparing future generations of scientists to communicate within collegial discourse communities, there has been little attention paid to the importance of communicating effectively with public audiences—despite the fact that the public is a major stakeholder in scientific innovation. This article takes up this gap in current STEM curricula in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of best practices in communicating science, as well as the ways that these practices can be incorporated into academic programs. In achieving this goal, this article draws upon current pedagogical and curricular models in communication studies in its examination of the ways students at a leading American undergraduate STEM institution are taught to engage with public audiences. Of specific importance are the benefits of narrative in building bridges between academic and public stakeholders, particularly the ability of narrative to increase comprehension, interest, and engagement when communicating science to non-expert audiences.

Understanding the Role of Online Media Platforms in Airport Capital Projects and Community Outreach

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812199347
Author(s):  
Max Z. Li ◽  
Megan S. Ryerson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Project Phases ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Common Content

Community outreach and engagement efforts are critical to an airport’s role as an ever-evolving transportation infrastructure and regional economic driver. As online social media platforms continue to grow in both popularity and influence, a new engagement channel between airports and the public is emerging. However, the motivations behind and effectiveness of these social media channels remain unclear. In this work, we address this knowledge gap by better understanding the advantages, impact, and best practices of this newly emerging engagement channel available to airports. Focusing specifically on airport YouTube channels, we first document quantitative viewership metrics, and examine common content characteristics within airport YouTube videos. We then conduct interviews and site visits with relevant airport stakeholders to identify the motivations and workflow behind these videos. Finally, we facilitate sample focus groups designed to survey public perceptions of the effectiveness and value of these videos. From our four project phases, to maximize content effectiveness and community engagement potential, we synthesize the following framework of action items, recommendations, and best practices: (C) Consistency and community; (O) Organizational structure; (M) Momentum; (B) Branding and buy-in; (A) Activity; (T) Two-way engagement; (E) Enthusiasm; and (D) Depth, or as a convenient initialism, our COMBATED framework.

scholarly journals Contemporaneous Monitoring of the Whole Dynamic Earth System from Space, Part I: System Simulation Study Using GEO and Molniya Orbits

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 878
Author(s):  
Christopher Cullingworth ◽  
Jan-Peter Muller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Models ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global View ◽  
Disaster Monitoring

Despite the wealth of data produced by previous and current Earth Observation platforms feeding climate models, weather forecasts, disaster monitoring services and countless other applications, the public still lacks the ability to access a live, true colour, global view of our planet, and nudge them towards a realisation of its fragility. The ideas behind commercialization of Earth photography from space has long been dominated by the analytical value of the imagery. What specific knowledge and actionable intelligence can be garnered from these evermore frequent revisits of the planet’s surface? How can I find a market for this analysis? However, what is rarely considered is what is the educational value of the imagery? As students and children become more aware of our several decades of advance in viewing our current planetary state, we should find mechanisms which serve their curiosity, helping to satisfy our children’s simple quest to explore and learn more about what they are seeing. The following study describes the reasons why current GEO and LEO observation platforms are inadequate to provide truly global RGB coverage on an update time-scale of 5-min and proposes an alternative, low-cost, GEO + Molniya 3U CubeSat constellation to perform such an application.

PENYUSUNAN BUKU PANDUAN PRAKTIK WISATA YANG BERTANGGUNG JAWAB DALAM PENDAKIAN GUNUNG

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Jussac Maulana Masjhoer ◽  
Dwi Wibowo ◽  
Bijak Qoulan Sadida ◽  
Inosensius Tito Ogista
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Mountain Climbing ◽  
Tourist Behavior ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Responsible Tourism

The lack of information related to the best practices in responsible tourism is one of the causes to tourist behavior problems. This study aims to determine the behavior of tourists in hiking, the adoption of responsible tourism practices, and to compile a responsible tourism practices guidebook. The research method used is survey research by spreading the questionnaire. Based on Likert analysis, at the pre-ascending stage, the classification of attitudes indicated by the respondents for cost and transportation is quite agreeable, while for equipment, guide, and simaksi is agreed. The ascent stage, the indicator when going up the mountain is quite agree, camping is not agree, the cook is agree, and when down the mountain is strongly agree. The post-ascent stage shows quite agreeable attitude. The public test of the guidebook, for the aspect of size and language of submission shows an agreeable attitude, while for the design, thickness, and content of the book shows an agreeable attitude. The conclusion is that (1) Still found the behavior of tourists in mountain climbing that is not environmentally friendly, (2) The responsible tourism practices of mountaineering that includes pre-ascending, ascent, and post-ascent, not well implemented by tourists, and (3) The responsible tourism practices guidebook still lack both technical and substance. Keywords: responsible tourism, mountain hiking, guidebook, tourist behavior

Deliberation in Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 501-517
Author(s):  
John Gastil ◽  
Laura Black
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Public Sphere

The discipline of communication encompasses a broad spectrum of humanistic, interpretive, and social scientific approaches to studying public deliberation. Early work engaged Habermasian theories of the public sphere, and rhetorical scholarship has foregrounded the deliberative threads running back to the discipline’s earliest history in ancient Greece. The bulk of contemporary work, however, has examined the dynamics of deliberation, particularly in the context of face-to-face discussions and dialogues in small groups. These studies have revealed the importance of narrative and dialogic exchanges during deliberation, as well as the critical role of facilitation and the maintenance of deliberative norms. Research has also assessed the practical consequences of participating in deliberation. The discipline’s practical orientation has led some scholars to seek ways to optimize deliberative designs to maximize simultaneously the quality of their decision outputs and their civic impacts on participants.

scholarly journals Evaluation of business models of urban IoT-applications for a medium sized city

2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 393-403
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Fischer ◽  
Birgit Schenk
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Public ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Evaluation Scheme ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
German City ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Digitalization of the public sector is being driven by a number of factors. In particular, the concept of "Smart Cities" has become an important driver of this development. This relies heavily on an intelligent infrastructure including the Internet of Things (IoT). But does it make sense for small and medium-sized municipalities to develop this? Is it justified to invest in IoT? (How) can a mediumsized city benefit from it? This paper presents the application of an evaluation scheme for business models of urban IoT applications to answer these questions. The research question focuses on how best practices of urban IoT applications in general and in particular can be evaluated. In order to establish a concrete practical reference we evaluated ten chosen IoT applications for the German city of Herrenberg.

scholarly journals Building our social landscape in cyberspace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Houston
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
School Librarian ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Social Landscapes

Developing a community of learners and leaders in school librarianship is fundamental to effective practice in professional preparation programs. As more and more school librarian preparation programs go online, staying focused on community building and collaboration becomes the key challenge to the best practices ideal. The Internet provides excellent tools and resources for developing online professional communities, as well as opportunities for academic programs to create social landscapes that students will engage in after they finish their academic program.

Five dilemmas in public procurement

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford P. McCue ◽  
Eric Prier ◽  
David Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Operational Constraints ◽  
And Control

Procurement systems in democratic governments across the globe face competing demands, conflated values and goals, and are being called upon to address societies "wicked" problems under the rubric of government "reform." As a result, government purchasing professionals are being challenged to develop new flexible structures and processes that devolve purchasing responsibility, yet maintain accountability and control; limit the opportunity for fraud/mismanagement while reducing operational constraints; increase economic efficiency while satisfying political demands for minority/local/small and women owned business participation; increase open and transparent competition while achieving best value; and applying best practices while confronting legal limitations. Essentially these dilemmas have placed public procurement at the forefront of government reform efforts. The current study delineates the nature of five dilemmas that purchasing practitioners face, and the implications of these dilemmas for purchasing in the public sphere are explored. Given the complexity of these dilemmas, procurement professionals will be continually called upon to balance these inherent tensions with little guidance from policymakers or elected officials.

California Tool Works: Assessing the Impact of Life Science Incubators and Accelerators

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
Landscape Survey ◽  
The Impact

With the proliferation of types and business models in incubation and acceleration, a landscape survey commenced nearly a decade ago with innovation professionals running accelerators, incubators, corporate innovation teams, venture studios, and maker spaces. The benchmarking continues under the auspices of the California Business Incubation Alliance. For this paper, a selected set of findings specific to biotechnology have been detailed, including best practices, success measures, outcomes, and economic impact. The perspective of entrepreneurs, innovation executives, investors, and the public sector have been taken into account throughout this exercise.

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