[PCST] CFP: The future of science journalism: knowledge and power

[Alessandro Delfanti]

Call for articles for a special issue on "The future of science  
journalism: knowledge and power"
JCOM, Journal of Science Communication

Deadline extended to: April 20, 2011

Since its inception, the Internet has quickly become a crucial factor  
in shaping the ecosystem of information. Today, science journalism  
finds itself in the middle of a deep cultural, economic and political  
change in which technological evolution has a prominent role. In  
particular, old forms of journalism are threatened in the new  
information ecosystem, and a re-definition of the social and  
professional role of information producers is needed in order to avoid  
a loss of the journalism’s democratic, social and cultural function.  
Indeed, the Web is the theatre where knowledge and power are being  
re-distributed among different actors and social groups, and new forms  
of expertise need to be integrated in the scientific information system.

A future special issue of the Journal of Science Communication will  
discuss these transformations.

More info at: http://jcom.sissa.it/call-journalism-2011


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