The landscape of contemporary media presents challenges and opportunities for science writers and communicators.These issues have not yet been fully understood.This paper presents the findings of collaborative work co...The landscape of contemporary media presents challenges and opportunities for science writers and communicators.These issues have not yet been fully understood.This paper presents the findings of collaborative work conducted to identify the growth in numbers of social media communicators who are writing about science for the Canadian public.We used emerging media research tools,including Altmetrics,and traditional survey tools.Our goal was to help Canada's professional member associations—Science Writers and Communicators of Canada(SWCC)and the Association des Communicateurs Scientifiques du Québec(ACS)—map the changing science communication landscape in Canada.Using an online survey tool,we compared survey responses from social media science communicators we identified to those of professional science communication members of SWCC and the ACS.We found that Canadian social media science communicators were younger,were paid less(or not at all)for their science communication activities,and had been communicating science for fewer years than other science communicators.They were more likely to have a science background(rather than communication,journalism or education)and were less likely to be members of professional associations.They tended to communicate with one another through their own informal networks.These findings provide professional science communication organizations in Canada with an empirical base from which to develop training,support and outreach activities aimed at improving the quality of public engagement with science in Canada.展开更多
Pu Songling(1640–1715)is one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the supernatural,yet he is neither a representative of the supernatural horror,that dominated the genre in the West in the wake of early 19^(th)ce...Pu Songling(1640–1715)is one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the supernatural,yet he is neither a representative of the supernatural horror,that dominated the genre in the West in the wake of early 19^(th)century Romanticism,nora representative of the supernatural love,that dominated in the late 19^(th)century Victorian period.Whereas Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus(1818),which questions Man's control over nature in an era of rapid revolutionary changes,and Bram Stoker's Dracula(1897),which questions the complex nature of human relationships and feelings in times of rigid moral control,Pu Songling's tales question the notions of authority within the rigid power structures of the Empire.By relying on the analytical tools provided by narratology,this article analyzes the interactions of the main characters of Pu Songling's stories with the surreal spatial-temporal world they encounter.展开更多
基金supported by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant (892-2017-2019) held by Juan Pablo Alperin at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Michelle Riedlinger at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) and Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC)
文摘The landscape of contemporary media presents challenges and opportunities for science writers and communicators.These issues have not yet been fully understood.This paper presents the findings of collaborative work conducted to identify the growth in numbers of social media communicators who are writing about science for the Canadian public.We used emerging media research tools,including Altmetrics,and traditional survey tools.Our goal was to help Canada's professional member associations—Science Writers and Communicators of Canada(SWCC)and the Association des Communicateurs Scientifiques du Québec(ACS)—map the changing science communication landscape in Canada.Using an online survey tool,we compared survey responses from social media science communicators we identified to those of professional science communication members of SWCC and the ACS.We found that Canadian social media science communicators were younger,were paid less(or not at all)for their science communication activities,and had been communicating science for fewer years than other science communicators.They were more likely to have a science background(rather than communication,journalism or education)and were less likely to be members of professional associations.They tended to communicate with one another through their own informal networks.These findings provide professional science communication organizations in Canada with an empirical base from which to develop training,support and outreach activities aimed at improving the quality of public engagement with science in Canada.
文摘Pu Songling(1640–1715)is one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the supernatural,yet he is neither a representative of the supernatural horror,that dominated the genre in the West in the wake of early 19^(th)century Romanticism,nora representative of the supernatural love,that dominated in the late 19^(th)century Victorian period.Whereas Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus(1818),which questions Man's control over nature in an era of rapid revolutionary changes,and Bram Stoker's Dracula(1897),which questions the complex nature of human relationships and feelings in times of rigid moral control,Pu Songling's tales question the notions of authority within the rigid power structures of the Empire.By relying on the analytical tools provided by narratology,this article analyzes the interactions of the main characters of Pu Songling's stories with the surreal spatial-temporal world they encounter.
