Open AccessThe Idea and Feasibility of Science Communication in Academic Social Networks
Author(s) -
Светлана Александровна Душина,
Viktor Kupriyanov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo fonda fundamentalʹnyh issledovanij. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki/vestnik rffi. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-8956
pISSN - 2587-6090
DOI - 10.22204/2587-8956-2020-100-03-81-91
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , restructuring , ideology , social network (sociolinguistics) , public relations , sociology , scientific communication , science communication , power (physics) , social science , computer science , political science , social media , world wide web , science education , politics , pedagogy , library science , physics , quantum mechanics , law
The paper includes general findings of the study with respect to the impact of academic social networks on the academicians’ professional practice. The authors consider academic social networks as the new means of communication that seek to overcome the limits of traditional means of communication, i.e. academic conferences, scholarly periodicals and books. The study shows that web-platforms, including academic social networks, challenge the superiority of journals in the system of science communications. Based on the results of the empirical study, the authors pay extra focus to studying communication processes via digital platforms. It shows that social networks, due to their specific nature, transform the scientific activity, i.e. change an academician’s motivation and values, encouraging the pursuit of high ratings, more content, citations, followers and page traffic. The authors consider social networks as a tool of open science ideology, concluding that promotion of social networks profiles is underlined by certain power interests aimed at restructuring science communication pursuant to the values of the neoliberal economy.