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Language, apart from its cultural and social dimension, has a scientific side that is connected not only to the study of 'grammar' in a more or less traditional sense, but also to disciplines like mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. This book explores developments in linguistic theory, looking in particular at the theory of generative grammar from the perspective of the natural sciences. It highlights the complex and dynamic nature of language, suggesting that a comprehensive and full understanding of such a species-specific property will only be achieved through interdisciplinary work.

Communication in science. --- Science --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Language.

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'The Science Communication Challenge' explores and discusses the whys - as distinct from the hows - of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs and making room for civilized and reasonable exchanges between different points of view. As civil societies and knowledge societies, modern democratic societies are confronted with the challenge of accommodating both the scientific logic of truth-seeking and the classical political logic of pluralism. The didactic science communication paradigm, however, is unsuited to dealing with substantial disagreement. Therefore, it is also unsuited to facilitate communication about the steadily increasing number of science-related political issues. Using insights from an array of academic fields, the book explores the possible origins of the didactic paradigm, connecting it to particular understandings of knowledge, politics and the public and to the widespread assumption of a science-versus-politics dichotomy. The book offers a critique of that assumption and suggests that science and politics be seen as substantially different activities, suited to dealing with different kinds of questions - and to different varieties of science communication.

Communication in science. --- Science --- Scientific method --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Methodology.

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Experts from MIT explore recent advances in cybersecurity, bringing together management, technical, and sociological perspectives.

COMPUTER NETWORKS--SECURITY MEASURES --- COMPUTER SECURITY --- Computer networks --- Internet --- Security measures. --- Computer network security --- Network security, Computer --- Security of computer networks --- Computer security --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Information Systems

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Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.

Science --- Communication in science --- Technical writing --- Engineering --- Scientific writing --- Technology --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Periodicals --- Publishing --- History --- Authorship --- Communication of technical information --- Communication in science. --- Natural sciences --- Economic schools

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"This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section covers topics important to instructors' everyday teaching as well as longer-term curricular development. Chapters address delivery of rhetorically informed instruction, communication from experts to the publics, writing assessment, online teaching, and communication-intensive pedagogies and curricula."--Provided by publisher.

Technical writing. --- Communication in science. --- Communication in medicine. --- Health communication --- Medical communication --- Medicine --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Science --- Engineering --- Scientific writing --- Technology --- Authorship --- Communication of technical information --- Comunicació científica --- Comunicació en medicina