The risks of managing an online personality and science communication as a public broadcaster.
Darren Osborne, editor of ABC Science news, leads a group of ABC science journalists in a discussion about their varied experiences with social media and the risks.
Darren Osborne (moderator)
Science journalist
Natasha Mitchell
ABC presenter of All In The Mind
Bernie Hobbs
ABC Science broadcaster
Sara Philips
Editor of ABC Environment.
The risks of managing an online personality and science communication as a public broadcaster.
Darren Osborne, editor of ABC Science news, leads a group of ABC science journalists in a discussion about their varied experiences with social media and the risks.
Darren Osborne (moderator)
Science journalist
Natasha Mitchell
ABC presenter of All In The Mind
Bernie Hobbs
ABC Science broadcaster
Sara Philips
Editor of ABC Environment.
Keeping the message intact.
Social technologies provide access to so much information, but how can science communicators ensure they are both getting through the noise without dumbing down the message, and how can they take best advantage of having their messages rebroadcast without them being re-interpreted incorrectly? What is considered best practise within science communication?
'Pepsigate' - the implosion of Science Blogs following the launch of a paid blog by Pepsi.
What happens when a major brand decides to take commercial interest in the publication of blogs about it's products?
Wilson da Silva (host)
Editor-in-Chief of COSMOS
Peter Griffin
Founding manager of the New Zealand Science Media Centre and the founder of Sciblogs
Matt Levinson
Journalist and science communicator
Becky Crew
Online editor at COSMOS and winner of Australia's National Science Week Big Blog Theory
Darren Osborne
ABC Science News editor
On the 27th April 2011 media140 hosted a one day science event in the Brisbane Powerhouse bringing together scientists, educators and communicators from the US, Europe and Australia.
The one-day conference explored the benefits of social technologies on effective science and risk communication, looking at the challenges of engaging the public on issues such as climate change, health, nanotechnology, cloning and other sensitive public interest themes.
Find out about media140 at http://www.media140.com
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