March 2026 online meeting - Reading group

As promised, this month's zoom meeting is a reading group. We'd like 3 or 4 volunteers to each read one of the papers suggested below (or suggest something else you'd prefer to read) and then informally report back to the group in the zoom session. 

Which one do you think is most interesting?  Volunteer to read that paper and feedback so that you make sure we discuss it as a group!

• Kessler, S. H., Mahl, D., Schäfer, M. S., & Volk, S. C. (2025). All Eyez on AI: A Roadmap for Science Communication Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Science Communication, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.24020401 

  • Literature review of research on AI in science communication.

     

• Lewenstein, B. V. (2015). Identifying what matters: Science education, science communication, and democracy. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(2), 253–262. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21201 

  • This is a comment piece from a special issue about bridging science education and science communication.

     

• Reijnierse, W. G., Brugman, B., & Droog, E. (2025). The differential effects of metaphor on comprehensibility and comprehension of environmental concepts. Journal of Science Communication, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.22323/150520250702095506 

  • An empirical approach to testing a technique we widely use in maths communication

     

• Wilkinson, C., Milani, E., Ridgway, A., & Weitkamp, E. (2023). Motivations and deterrents in contemporary science communication: a questionnaire survey of actors in seven European countries. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 13(2), 131–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2022.2139165 

  • A commonly cited work.

     

• Zimmerman, I., Baram-Tsabari, A., & Tal, T. (2024). Science communication objectives and actual practices of science news websites as a showcase for gaps between theory and practice. Journal of Science Communication, 23(01). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.23010205 

  • An analysis of 4 science news websites with respect to the three models of science communication: dissemination, dialogue and participation. 

     

All these papers should be freely available - we hope everyone can read all the papers that interest them and take part in the discussion.  Please get in touch if you have any problems accessing them. 

To join this event you need to join the Network.