Texas State University, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2022 May;31(4):473-488. doi: 10.1177/09636625211057231. Epub 2022 Jan 13.
This study examines science communication within Ask Me Anything sessions hosted by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists on Reddit. In addition to considering a unique social media platform, our work makes an important contribution in revealing the limitations of a traditional approach to studying science communication and modeling an alternative. First, using an "assembled" approach, we qualitatively explore themes in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists' posts and consider how they reflect the goals of "deficit" and "dialogue" models. Second, using a "disassembling" approach, inspired by Davies and Horst and actor-network theory, we more deeply examine our experiences studying the Ask Me Anything sessions. We then demonstrate how this alternative approach identifies "hidden" human and non-human actants that may have shaped science communication as "mediators." We use these insights to reject the common assumption that science communication on social media occurs solely and directly between scientists and publics.
这项研究考察了美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）科学家在 Reddit 上主持的问答（Ask Me Anything，AMA）会议中的科学传播。除了考虑一个独特的社交媒体平台外，我们的工作还在揭示研究科学传播的传统方法的局限性和建立替代方法方面做出了重要贡献。首先，我们使用“组装”方法，从质化的角度探讨了 NOAA 科学家帖子中的主题，并考虑了它们如何反映“缺陷”和“对话”模型的目标。其次，受戴维斯和霍斯特以及行动者网络理论的启发，我们使用“分解”方法更深入地研究了我们研究 AMA 会议的经验。然后，我们展示了这种替代方法如何识别可能作为“中介”塑造科学传播的“隐藏”的人和非人的行动者。我们利用这些见解来拒绝一种常见的假设，即社交媒体上的科学传播仅在科学家和公众之间直接发生。
