Comments on: Tweeting and talking about science communication http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/tweeting-and-talking-about-sci.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 16:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ambiguity http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/tweeting-and-talking-about-sci.html#comment-1324191 Ambiguity Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=139753#comment-1324191 <blockquote>talk about communicating science to the public, how we screw it up, and how we can do it better. You can follow along at the #scio12 hashtag.</blockquote>At the risk of sounding a wee bit grumpy, I think twitter is a good example of getting it wrong. Far as I can tell, intelligent discourse about complex topics can't easily be fit into 140 characters. I know McLuhan is a bit out of vogue now, but I think the time of twitter is perhaps a good time to dust off the old volumes...

talk about communicating science to the public, how we screw it up, and how we can do it better. You can follow along at the #scio12 hashtag.

At the risk of sounding a wee bit grumpy, I think twitter is a good example of getting it wrong. Far as I can tell, intelligent discourse about complex topics can’t easily be fit into 140 characters.

I know McLuhan is a bit out of vogue now, but I think the time of twitter is perhaps a good time to dust off the old volumes…

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