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Course literature

The course literature will be given on the first session or you are welcome to pick up your copies before course start in Marie's office, Osquldas väg 10, floor 3.

The teachers will also give handouts on each session. The handouts will be posted under each session as well as in a separate page called handouts.

Course literature

Articles for Critical Reading

Extra material

“Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism”

If reporters wrote stories the way some scientists seem to want, few people would read science coverage

“Scientists should not be allowed to copy-check stories about their work”

Extensive copy-checking by scientists before publication does not serve journalism, science or readers

 

Administratör Marie Androv Broms skapade sidan 28 juni 2012

Marie Androv Broms redigerade 28 juni 2012

The course literature will be given on the first session or you are welcome to pick up your copies before course start in Marie's office, Osquldas väg 10, floor 3. ¶

The teachers will also give handouts on each session. The handouts will be posted under each session as well as in a separate page called handouts. ¶

Course literature A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers , Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Richard Dawkins¶

Marie Androv Broms redigerade 4 oktober 2012

The course literature will be given on the first session or you are welcome to pick up your copies before course start in Marie's office, Osquldas väg 10, floor 3. ¶ The teachers will also give handouts on each session. The handouts will be posted under each session as well as in a separate page called handouts. ¶ Course literature A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers , Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Richard Dawkins

The teachers will also give handouts on each session. The handouts will be posted under each session as well as in a separate page called handouts.¶

Course literature A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers , Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz HenigThe Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Richard Dawkins¶

Articles for Critical Reading E.O Wilson is both a biologist and a highly regarded research communicator. In this New York Times article, he discusses how evolutionary pressures have shaped human minds to deal with good and evil.¶

 “Evolution and Our Inner Conflict”¶

Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good? Are we built to pledge our lives to a group, even to the risk of death, or the opposite, built to place ourselves and our families above all else? Scientific evidence, a good part of it accumulated during the past 20 years, suggests that we are all of these things simultaneously. ¶

Dan Falk is a Canadian science journalist and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. In this piece for the U.S.-based online magazine Slate, he takes a topic once the premise of low-brow science fiction and gives it serious treatment, with informed comment from renowned researchers.¶

“Could the Internet Ever ‘Wake Up’”?¶

And would that be such a bad thing?¶

In the world of sci-fi movie geekdom, Aug. 29, 1997, was a turning point for humanity: On that day, according to the Terminator films, the network of U.S. defense computers known as Skynet became self-aware—and soon launched an all-out genocidal war against Homo sapiens.¶

Fortunately, that date came and went with no such robo-apocalypse. But the 1990s did bring us the World Wide Web, which is now far larger and more “connected” than any nation’s defense network. Could the Internet “wake up”? And if so, what sorts of thoughts would it think? And would it be friend or foe? ¶

“A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the cold”¶

Alexander Masters in The Daily Telegraph (UK)¶

Sitting in a refrigerator in a Swedish laboratory is what promises to be a cheap and effective cancer treatment. So why are the trials to bring it to market not going ahead?¶

Finally, an article of my own published on kth.se. In our discussion, I will outline how a journalist for a commercial publication will treat the topic and the researcher differently than an in-house reporter does. Early in your career, you are more likely to encounter this type of coverage.¶

 “A Man of Magnetism”¶

For a young researcher still in the early stages of a highly promising career in modern physics, Stefano Bonetti might seem a bit hung up on some very old ideas. Ask him to explain his work and he’ll first want to tell you about Zeno of Elea, the fifth-century BCE Italian philosopher who stumped Aristotle himself with the paradox of how a flying arrow could simultaneously be in motion and occupy a fixed point in space.¶

You might also find these articles from The Guardian (UK) interesting for their discussion of the rules and conventions that journalists follow in science reporting. The author is Ananyo Bhattacharya, chief online editor of Nature.¶

“Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism”¶

If reporters wrote stories the way some scientists seem to want, few people would read science coverage¶

“Scientists should not be allowed to copy-check stories about their work”¶

Extensive copy-checking by scientists before publication does not serve journalism, science or readers¶

 

Administratör kommenterade 5 oktober 2012

Hello all,

Here are my slides from the Oct 4 session "Critical Reading & Elevator Pitch." Feel free to contact me if there's anything you'd like to discuss as you work on your pitch for the media training session on Oct 18.

Kevin

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Administratör kommenterade 9 oktober 2012

Hello Everyone,

I’d like to make a slight change to the assignment in which you will prepare an elevator pitch for the media training session Oct. 18. Marie and I talked it over after the class on Thursday and we felt it was perhaps complicating the issue to have you deliver pitches for different audiences. Instead, it would make more sense for all the pitches to be delivered as if you were speaking to a science reporter.

Perhaps we’ll have time to discuss other audiences such as fellow researchers, funding agencies or the general public, but for the moment it’s better to keep it simple.

Again, please get in touch if you have any questions.

Best,

Kevin

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