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How can new communication tools foster progress on a finite planet? Issue1 #146272 Conventional media are shrinking while options for directly sharing and shaping ideas -- including tools like Debategraph -- are explosively expanding. It's a great time for scientists, scholars, students and their institutions to dive in and experiment. See related links.
Filling the Science Communication Gap The Changing (Communication) Climate

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Making Information Matter »Making Information MatterMaking Information Matter☜This is an open exploration of ways to build a Knowosphere, a global network and tool kit aimed at making information matter -- getting the right idea or mind to the right place at the right time to improve prospects for fitting human aspirations on a finite planet.☜F1CEB7

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How can new communication tools foster progress on a finite planet?How can new communication tools foster progress on a finite planet?☜Conventional media are shrinking while options for directly sharing and shaping ideas -- including tools like Debategraph -- are explosively expanding. Its a great time for scientists, scholars, students and their institutions to dive in and experiment. See related links.☜FFB597

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Foster awareness that science is a journey, not a set of facts. »Foster awareness that science is a journey, not a set of facts.Foster awareness that science is a journey, not a set of facts.☜Science blogs by scientists help foster public understanding that science is a process in which knowledge builds through discourse and debate, where uncertainty is a form of knowledge, not a reason for stasis. e.g.: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/☜FFB597

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Match.com with planet in mind »Match.com with planet in mindMatch.com with planet in mind☜Create portals that channel expertise to places that need it or match up skill sets that together can do things each cant on its own.☜FFB597

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Create a community that can expose hype and convey reality »Create a community that can expose hype and convey realityCreate a community that can expose hype and convey reality☜On the Web, its hard to efficiently sift for reliable information, particularly on issues that are erupting in realtime or controversial. NASAs @asteroidwatch Twitter feed shows how a community can dive in and help. Relevant Dot Earth post: Close Encounters of the Rocky Kind: http://nyti.ms/sWrw63☜59C6EF

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Skill sharing for better idea sharing »Skill sharing for better idea sharingSkill sharing for better idea sharing☜A Purdue earthquake engineer develops a safer design for school buildings in earthquake zones. A communication student creates an animation showing, without words, the change. Related Dot Earth post with video: Designing for Safety in Turkey and Other Earthquake Zones: http://nyti.ms/pTQouG☜59C6EF

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Link[1] Filling the Science Communication Gap

Author: Andrew C. Revkin - Dot Earth
Cited by: David Price 7:53 AM 27 March 2012 GMT
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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/filling-the-science-communication-gap/?src=tp

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Specialized journalists now occupy a shrinking wedge of a fast-growing pie of light-speed media. This reality threatens to erode the already limited public appreciation of science. But the situation also presents a great opportunity – and responsibility – for scientists, their institutions, and their funders. Institutions that thrive in this world of expanding, evolving communication paths are those willing to engage the public (including critics) and to experiment with different strategies. The alternative is to hunker down, wait for misinformation to spread, and then – after the fact – sift fact from hype.

Link[2] The Changing (Communication) Climate

Author: Andrew C. Revkin - Dot Earth
Cited by: David Price 7:55 AM 27 March 2012 GMT
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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/the-changing-communication-climate/

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One of my mantras these days is that traditional media are a shrinking wedge of an explosively growing pie of communication options. I make the point frequently in encouraging scientists and their institutions to recognize that the old model of drafting a press release and waiting for the phone to ring is not the path to efficacy and impact.

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