Citizen dialogue and participation are currently a trend in SciComm, at universities or in cities. But do they really exchange with citizens?
Not everything is participation
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Accessible social media
Another nice tip is about hyperlinks. Often, we use “click here”. If our audience can find out more. But these two words don’t explain, what your audience should except behind the link.
The role of agencies in Public Engagement
Mainly academics are present in the public engagement field. – hardly any practitioners with experience in media. So a perspective from the outside is missing.
The potential of Public Engagement
Public engagement is still not very widespread in the university landscape in Germany because there is a lack of a fundamental understanding of public engagement. What constitutes a fundamental understanding of public engagement? And why it is currently more important to properly understand the potential of public engagement – more important than just knowing participatory formats.
Checklist for the engagement with the public
It doesn’t matter if you as scientist communicate for the first time or since a while a checklist is always good. Cause communicating and engaging with the public is a complex task and so many things must be considered. That’s why we would like to introduce a toolkit by QUEST that we found quite useful.
A codex for Public Engagement
Public engagement is not established as a field in Germany – in contrast to English. Therefore, practitioners often do not understand it in the same way. In order to change this and for everyone to pursue similar goals, a codex is needed.
AI produced SciComm videos
Do you like to communicate your research and want to try out the video format? But prefer not to stand in front of the camera. How about letting an AI do the talking? We present how it works.
Digitally more visible
Our find for those who are new or a bit more advanced in digital science communication is Susanne Geu’s blog with some helpful tips.
Understanding problem between Science and Media
Media and science need to know each other’s methods. Why and which approaches might help is what the article is about.
SciComm & Public Engagement networks
A network for exchange has many advantages. The Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science created one for international networking not only among researchers, but also among experts from other fields. The WissKon network of NaWik is especially for communicating scientists.