Munzi Silvana, Giovanetti Manuela
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal.
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Symbiosis. 2021;84(3):285-293. doi: 10.1007/s13199-021-00780-6. Epub 2021 May 21.
While restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have strongly limited and affected the work of scientists and communicators, the pandemic has also encouraged the development of new ways of networking and public engagement. People have had to resort to virtual events, with a subsequent proliferation of webinars, online meetings, and digital resources. In this situation we have had to find new ways of measuring the impact of these activities. Using the activities of the Italian Lichen Society (Società Lichenologica Italiana, SLI), Google Trends and colleagues' contributions, we evaluated the performances and impacts of virtual tools on lichenological literacy. We compared the relative success of virtual and in-person events and the effort required; we evaluated followers' appreciation of various categories of posts on SLI Facebook page; and designed a questionnaire to collate information on individual experiences of in-person and virtual events linked to lichens. As expected, online events generally required less effort to put together and deploy than in-person events and engaged more people, especially when recorded and made available online for a long time. Using online searches for the word "lichens" we found an association with national events, and there was a notable increase in membership of SLI over the last 10 years, demonstrating an increasing interest by people in lichens. Without excluding the positive effects of in-person experiences, we believe that online events offer a powerful tool to help increase interest in, and knowledge about lichens. This interest may help to mitigate the impact of anthropogenic activities on this sensitive component of the ecosystem and help human-lichen relationships.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13199-021-00780-6.
虽然新冠疫情所带来的限制极大地限制并影响了科学家和传播者的工作，但疫情也推动了新的网络交流和公众参与方式的发展。人们不得不借助虚拟活动，随后网络研讨会、在线会议和数字资源大量涌现。在这种情况下，我们必须找到衡量这些活动影响的新方法。利用意大利地衣学会（Società Lichenologica Italiana，SLI）的活动、谷歌趋势以及同事们的贡献，我们评估了虚拟工具在地衣学素养方面的表现和影响。我们比较了虚拟活动和线下活动的相对成效以及所需的努力；我们评估了关注者对SLI脸书页面各类帖子的喜爱程度；并设计了一份问卷，以整理与地衣相关的线下和虚拟活动个人体验的信息。不出所料，与线下活动相比，在线活动通常筹备和开展起来所需的精力更少，而且参与的人更多，尤其是当活动被录制并长期在线提供时。通过对“地衣”一词的在线搜索，我们发现其与全国性活动有关联，并且在过去10年中SLI成员显著增加，这表明人们对地衣的兴趣日益浓厚。在不排除线下体验积极影响的情况下，我们认为在线活动提供了一个强大的工具，有助于提高人们对地衣的兴趣和了解。这种兴趣可能有助于减轻人为活动对生态系统这一敏感组成部分的影响，并促进人与地衣的关系。
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