Open AccessScience Communication in the Post‐Expert Digital Age
Author(s) -
Luers Amy,
Kroodsma David
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo240003
Subject(s) - popular science , carry (investment) , computer science , psychology , epistemology , data science , science education , mathematics education , philosophy , finance , economics
Recently, Popular Science disabled its online comments. In explaining this decision, the magazine cited research that showed that online comments, especially uncivil ones, strongly influence readers, often leading to misleading or incorrect interpretations of the articles. Popular Science wrote, “If you carry out those results to their logical end…you start to see why we feel compelled to hit the ‘off’ switch” [ Labarre, 2013].