Case Report: Scientific Dissemination as a Mediator of the Research Consolidation Process: Proposals for Institutionalization

Introduction Communicating science is one of the main steps in the research process. However, the method of communication must be aligned with the audience for the message. This is especially evident in institutions that promote teaching, research, and extension, especially when considering joint actions that promote a dialogue between themselves and the community. Methods In light of this need, this study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the main documents guiding the policies and institutional actions related to research at the two federal institutes based in the state of Goiás/Brazil: Institution A and Institution B and proposing ways to include scientific dissemination as a mediator of the research consolidation process. This is a bibliographic, documentary study with a descriptive, qualitative approach based on a case study. Results and Discussion The analyses indicate that research must be consolidated as institutional policy and that a policy to encourage research must be implemented. This has yet to be achieved at these institutions, although scientific dissemination is explicitly addressed by institutional documents guiding the development and dissemination of pedagogical practices, especially in teaching and extension. Scientific journalism and scientific dissemination are mediators and facilitators of this endeavor.

Scientific journalism and journalistic profile as methodological elements forthe construction of hypermedia stories

Este artículo aborda las experiencias, metodología y aprendizajes resultantes del proyecto de investigación-creación Periodismo interactivo. Historias de investigadores en el Eje Cafetero, financiado por la Universidad de Manizales y en alianza con la Fundación Academia de Dibujo Profesional de Cali. Esta iniciativa se centró en tres elementos: una base del periodismo científico y dos columnas: el perfil como género periodístico y la hipermedialidad como canal. Luego de escoger dos historias de científicos con relevantes logros e impactos, se aplicaron los elementos del perfil como género periodístico para construir historias basadas en las experiencias, fuentes, datos y percepciones del equipo de trabajo. Igualmente se cuentan los hitos científicos con las herramientas del periodismo científico para valorar dichos impactos y transcodificarlos para audiencias no especializadas y, finalmente, se eligieron momentos, intervenciones e información relevante para construir una propuesta hipermedial que acompañará el libro que recoge ambas historias.

Information about Human Evolution: An Analysis of News Published in Communication Media in Spanish between 2015 and 2017

The present study examines a sample of 220 pieces of news related to human evolution, written in Spanish and published over a period of two years, both in digital and print media. The aim of this study is to assess the rigor and coherence of the information in the news in our sample with scientific knowledge on the theory of evolution. To this end, errors and the incorrect use of concepts related to biological evolution are identified, classified according to criteria resulting from the review of previous studies, and finally, the frequency of errors identified in news published in print media is compared with that identified in digital media. The results presented allow us to highlight the significantly high frequency of errors in the news analyzed and the most frequent error categories. Results are discussed within the frame of the important role that scientific journalism plays in the processes of knowledge dissemination, in this case, related to human evolution.

Analysis of scientific journalism in Nature reveals gender and regional disparities in coverage

Scientific journalism is a critical way in which the public can remain informed and benefit from new scientific findings. Such journalism also shapes the public's view of the current state of scientific findings and legitimizes experts. Those covering science can only cite and quote a limited number of sources. Sources may be identified by the journalist's research or by recommendations by other scientists. In both cases, biases may influence who is identified and ultimately included as an expert. We analyzed 22,001 non-research articles published by Nature to quantify possible disparities. Our analysis considered three possible sources of disparity: gender, name origin, and country affiliation. To explore these sources of disparity, we extracted cited authors' names and affiliations, as well as extracted names of quoted speakers. While citations and quotations within a piece do not reflect the entire information-gathering process, they can provide insight into the demographics of visible sources. We then used the extracted names to predict gender and name origin of the cited authors and speakers. In order to appropriately quantify the level of difference, we must identify a suitable reference set for comparison. We chose first and last authors within primary research articles in Nature and a subset of Springer Nature articles in the same time period as our comparator. In our analysis, we found a skew towards male quotation in Nature journalism-related articles, but quotation is trending toward equal representation at a faster rate than first and last authorship in academic publishing. Interestingly, we found that the gender disparity in quotes was column-dependent, with the "Career Features" column reaching gender parity. Our name origin analysis found a significant over-representation of names with predicted Celtic/English origin and under-representation of names with a predicted East Asian origin. This finding was observed both in extracted quotes and journal citations, but dampened in citations. Finally, we performed an analysis to identify how countries vary in the way that they're described in scientific journalism. We focused on two groups of countries: countries that are often mentioned in articles, but do not often have affiliated authors cited, and countries that have affiliated authors that are often cited, but the country is not typically mentioned. We found that the articles in which the less cited countries occur tend to have more agricultural, extraction-related, and political terms, whereas articles including highly cited countries have broader scientific terms. This discrepancy indicates a possible lack of regional diversity in the reporting of scientific output.

FUNCTION OF INFORMATIONAL PUBLICIISTICS AND IMAGE (INFORMATION)

It is well known that journalism is a unique way of covering social life and is widely used in the press. Journalism is divided into a number of types to cover all aspects of public life. These include socio-political journalism, economic-industrial journalism, journalism reflecting the cultural and spiritual life (there are a number of subtypes, such as scientific journalism, literary journalism, sports journalism, art journalism). There is also a peculiar way of social life, albeit from a socio-political point of view - comic journalism, which illuminates it in a humorous way. In terms of its structure, journalism is divided into informational, analytical and artistic journalism, which depends on how it covers life.

Professional and cognitive level of the journalist in science propaganda

Journalism branches arise in accordance with development of society and its needs. Society, people, and professions are undergoing systematic transformation. Scientific journalism performs with its distinctive characteristics. First, it changes and organized by the achievements of science and education. Second, the success factors of science journalism have a normative, legal, and practical basis. Third, scientific journalism has a combined function of connecting the scientific community and public. The promotion of scientific achievements is jointly carried out by professional journalists and the scientific community. Therefore, the elaboration of scientific information is important for a good perception of the content by a wide audience. The cognitive level of the scientific journalist helps him to freely use scientific theories along with other sources. The author considers that such activities should not end with the publication of scientific results by a journalist. For a journalist, high-quality publication of research results is an integral part of the success of scientific communication. The study concludes that the degree of success in scientific communication depends on several factors, including the cognitive and professional level of a journalist.

Science and popular science journalism: difficulties of definition and media typology

This article is relevant because there is a need for scientific differentiation of two related categories of modern communication: science journalism and popular science journalism. There is no stable approach to this problem in the Ukrainian discourse, and the current normative documents force the editorial offices to determine the type of activity not according to the specifics of the media, but according to the list available, for example, in GOST. The object of the research were world and Ukrainian media specialized in scientific topics: “Cosmos”, “Popular Science”, “Discover”, “Scientific American”, “Kunsht”, “Spilne”, “Svitohliad”, “Vselennaya, prostranstvo, vremya”, “Science Ukraine”, “Alpha Centauri”, “Nauka i tekhnika”, “Kraina znan”, “Vichnyi mandrivnyk”, “Lokalna istoriia”, “Istoriia. Novyi pohliad”, “Malovidoma istoriia: daleke i blyzke”. At the same time, we analyzed digital practices (web resources), as well as traditional paper media (magazines). The subject of study is the peculiarities of the definition of scientific and popular science journalism and the complexity of the typology of the corresponding media. The main research method was comparative analysis, which, supported by discourse analysis, made it possible, firstly, to compare the existing scientific views on the categories of “scientific journalism” and “popular science journalism” and highlight the main features of each. Secondly, using these methods, an analysis of the world’s leading resources specializing in science journalism was carried out and parallels with this type of Ukrainian media were made. The result of the study is the typological differentiation of modern Ukrainian media resources. The study was based on the hypothesis that the characteristics of the audience and the functional specificity of the resource are decisive factors in terms of differentiation of the media as science and popular science. According to it, those media that are oriented towards advanced users, focus on the latest achievements of science and technology and restrained use online opportunities, almost without resorting to methods of edutainment and sciencetainment, we attribute to the channels of science journalism. The media that combine directions for the mass user, focus on the educational component and different popular pseudo-scientific topics with prolonged potential relevance, we refer to popular science journalism. Taking into audience and functional factors we include following projects of science journalism: “Kunsht”, “Spilne”, “Svitohliad”, “Vselennaya, prostranstvo, vremya”, “Science Ukraine”, “Alpha Centauri”, “Nauka i tekhnika”, “Kraina znan”. “Vichnyi mandrivnyk”, “Lokalna istoriia”, “Istoriia. Novyi pohliad”, “Malovidoma istoriia: daleke i blyzke” we refer to popular science journalism.

DAMPAK LOCKDOWN COVID 19 PADA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI INDONESIA

Muslim communities have very high expectations in the success and progress of Islamic education. However, that hope has not been fully implemented until now, because there are still many problems in the world of Islamic education as we face now the impact of holding a lockdown from a virus that struck the national and international level namely covid-19, as a result it does not only have an impact on the economy of the community Indonesia is bad, It also has a positive and negative influence on the world of Islamic education in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to find a way to prioritize comfort, readiness, safety, and public health. Of course, these steps are taken as part of the covid-19 pandemic response system. The research method use is qualitative based on quality in the form of research data sources obtained for educational research data and the covid-19 of outbreak data and the data related to this research in scientific journalism. This research also a systematic procedure approach. the results of this study indicate that educators and students in Islamic education throughout the world, especially throughout Indonesia, velg The tremendous impact of the covid-19 virus outbreak, Which In addition to this outbreak, Which In addition to the outbreak had an impact on the learning process of education in Islamic schools, but the impact of it is implementation this lockdown provides wisdom to the state of Indonesia that can make some people aware and feel the development of technology and educational learning application features that have advanced very rapidly, with this society will be more familiar with technology specifically in learning Islamic education.