Check Nieman Lab's coverage on our recent publication that compares #COVID19 #pandemic media coverage in US vs China: Conflict vs. community: How early coronavirus coverage differed in the U.S. and China https://t.co/cu1uF0KXpP via @NiemanLab #scicomm #journalim #datascience

Curious as to how a degree in LSC can enhance your career in science communication? Join us for a virtual info session this Thursday at 5 PM central time. We would love to see you there! Register with the link below 👇👇👇 https://t.co/DUavr6NPzH #scicomm #infosession

NEW STUDY! We compared media coverage of #COVID19 in the U.S. and China and found interesting differences in both the volume and topics of coverage #scicomm #riskcomm W/ @u1ess @luyebao @elhowell23 @HanLeiMon @Kaiping_Chen https://t.co/kesVEjlnLb https://t.co/XALhY5KIi3

Academic human-subjects research on social media requires approval from an institutional IRB. But how does society hold social media corporations (which have as much or more power to impact peoples' daily lives) accountable for their research and manipulations? #uwlsc875 #scicomm

My big take-away from #uwlsc875 this week: The open access movement deserves support, but it means that we- scientists and academics- have added responsibility to search-out and disincentivize predatory paid journals. #scicomm

How can those of us interested in science communication ease that tension and facitliate that relationship? #uwlsc875

Pace differences strain scientist/journalist relations. The journalistic publication schedule makes it hard to get balanced scientist perspectives. Academics may want accurate science reporting, but often can't respond quickly enough to inquireys on an hourly timeline. #uwlsc875

My take-away from studying the interaction of science & social media for 1/2 a semester? Social media are valuable tools- but their impact on science communication is not always intuitive, and there is a whole new realm of communication ethics to be explored. #UWLSC875 #scicomm

Blogs and academic institutions can have a symbiotic relationship, say Batts et al (2008). Ideally, blogs become "forges for developing ideas," and forums for science discussion, "with the institution creating links between blogs while conferring authority.” #uwLSC875 #scicom

#uwLSC875 Shi et al. found that comment sections- regardless of their civility- can distract from content of a video. Comments can totally alter perceptions of online science content. As scientists, how do we balance cultivating discussion w/control over the message we put out?

I tend to think science ed. should focus more on the process than specific facts: Can science blogs fill that need? Or is my attitude just a diff't form of the knowledge-deficit model w/the faulty assumption that to know the scientific process is to love it? #uwLSC875 #scicomm

“Most blogs explore the scientific process rather than just the published findings: for example, relationships between ‘science and society’, the researcher’s life, science communication, and problems of academic life.” (Dr. Vinciane Colson) #uwLSC875 #scicomm

@NSF_NSB #SEIndicators2018

How does this contribute to our understanding of the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis- that the info poor get poorer and the info rich get richer? #uwLSC875

Highly educated people with higher incomes are more likely to rely upon online sources for their news, while people with less education and income rely more on television. #uwLSC875

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But wouldn't it be great if the big-algorithm creators could give us setting for that? @facebook @Google- You can give us exactly what we naturally gravitate toward- surely you can identify the opposite of that and give those who choose it a button to break us out of our bubbles?

Articles like this one: https://t.co/SGNsalbm1N offer ways that we can manipulate algorithms to get our information vegetables. Another article suggested that we need to adapt to algorithms as our new information gatekeepers by adding ethics to the algorithms.

Our social media is tailored to what we WANT to see. I just watched @elipariser's Ted talk saying we need a balance of information vegetables and desserts- the light fluff and people who agree with us vs. the heavy stuff and people who don't agree with us. #uwLSC875#scicomm

With web 2.0, science journalist numbers have plummeted. Does this mean a transformation of science news into the purview of non-experts? Or is it a temporary reshuffling, until traditional media adapt to the new online environment? #uwLSC875 #scicomm