A brief overview of what distinguishes science and online journalism from traditional journalism, and what characteristics of the internet are particularly useful when dealing with the distinguishing characteristics of science journalism. Contextualizing with embedded information is put forward as one application of web technology that is particularly valuable in science journalism, and two implementations are briefly described.
7. Non-Linear An example of non-linear in print, which has implied structure, but could be read in any order. Online, readers will pop over to other sites to check facts, look up words, etc. whether you like it or not. Diagram from September 27, 2004 issue of Time. By Joe Lertola and Ed Gabel. http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/grfx_new/chrt_hurricane.html
8. Interactive You can do interactive content in print, but it works much better online. And again, whether you build it in or not, readers will interact with your work by commenting on it elsewhere, looking for more information elsewhere, etc. Build it in yourself and they’ll do this with you, rather than in spite of you.
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10. Information often available injournals, which are increasingly accessible to the public
12. Global beatFor more characteristics, or to suggest your own:http://newsciencemedia.wetpaint.com/page/What%27s+characteristic+about+science+media%3F
13. Online Science Writing New Media There are lots of peopleworking on finding newmedia tools that willaddress essential issues faced in mainstream online journalism. But there are Issues/characteristics that are far more important to science journalism than traditional journalism and thus may be neglected by those people. That’s where we should be focusing our attention. Journalism Science Writing
20. Allows a reader-driven experience, providing more depth in those areas the reader chooses to explore
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22. D. I. Y. MJ project: PCOS and metformin The problem? To do this, I had to hack some existing javascript, and then insert the following html codethroughout the website: <span class="refFact" onmouseover="javascript:showRef(‘exampleReference)"> This is a reference in the body of the text.</span> <div class="refPopup" id=“exampleReference> <p><a href="http://www.examplereference.com”target="_blank"> Paper name. Example Journal. 2006 May;12(5):526-31.</a> </p> </div>
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Relevant to New Media + Journalism:-multimedia – most of this can go on your television or radio-no limits on size/length, but greater need for curation-non-linear-interactive
There is implied structure, but you could read most of this information in any order. That’s non-linear. You can put a linear story on the web, but your reader will not necessarily read it that way.This diagram appeared in the September 27, 2004 issue of Time magazine. This graphic was a collaboration between JoeLertola and Ed Gabel. In this diagram Gabel created the illustration of the airplane as well as designing the layout of the graphic. Lertola created the illustration of the hurricane.http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/grfx_new/chrt_hurricane.html
You can do interactive in print – the choose your own adventure books were interactive.Now, though, we can do this much more effectively with web technology, which is inherently interactive.
Characteristics, not etymology.-the darker centers are the most central characteristics – and they do not entirely overlap. So the most essential characteristics of science journalism may be only somewhat important aspects of journalism.-the crescent-shaped area is still science journalism. It simply represents characteristics of science journalism not shared by general journalism
Putting it all together…We have “Science New Media” (or whatever you prefer to call it!)But let’s shrink that down even more to make it manageable. So, what is essential to science writing – an important issue or challenge – that can be enabled by new media?