Inna Kouper: Science blogs and public engagement with science: a short interview
Writing about science has changed dramatically, in the last 10 years, thanx to blogging and social media. It's very difficult to balance between perks and pitfalls and we are still tryng to orient ourselves. W e start with a short interview with Inna Kouper (Indiana University). Inna's blog: http://inkouper.blogspot.it/ Inna Kouper wrote an article for the February 2004 issue of JCOM, the open access journal on science communication, titled: "Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities" and with this abstract: " D igital information an d communication technologies (ICTs) are novelty tools that can be use d to facilitate broa d er involvement of citizens in the d iscussions about science. The same tools can be use d to reinforce the tra d itional top- d own mo d el of science communication. Empirical investigations of particular technologies can help to un d erstan d how these tools are use d in the d iss