The ESMH kick-off event : Communicating Science via Social Media June 27, 2018
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On the occasion of the presentation of the activities of the newborn European Science-Media Hub (ESMH), the lively discussion covered different aspects of science communications in the digital world.
Dr Cary Funk, Director of Science and Society Research, PEW Research Center : “Media has changed a lot in the last decade. The existence of social media means there are more content providers out there and many citizens get news from the social media”
Mico Tatalovic, Chairman of the Association of British Science Writers : “There is a crisis in science journalism, caused by the media business models being undermined by the rise of the online world…Society will always need science journalists, don’t let us go extinct!”
Nicholas Woërl, Physicist at the Nano Energy Technology Center (NETZ), Center of Nanointegration (CENIDE) at the University of Duisburg-Essen : “We need real scientists as credible role models for science communication…The role of science communication is to make quality information discovered”
Michael Peters, CEO Euronews : “With the arrival of new ways of communication we have to deal with an infobesity of news, which makes it difficult to ‘select’ messages”