Review by Choice Review
"Post-academic science" is influenced, now more than ever, by commercial, political, and social forces. This collection of chapters comprises an excellent overall analysis from the UK perspective for those who communicate and discuss empirical science--practitioners as well as researchers and teaching faculty. Examples from the global community ensure broad applicability. The work focuses on practices, with particularly interesting sections on popularizing science and practicing public engagement, showing how science news now permeates the overall culture and influences it. From the exploration of the fraught history of peer review to balanced presentations of current practices even as they change and develop with new information and communication technologies, the book shows how scientists have worked together over time and space constraints to develop consensus and produce new, authoritative knowledge through communal judgment. Contributors address information resources from print to online multimedia and provide ample references for further study and enlightenment in this dynamic field. This clear, cogent, well-organized work is a companion volume to Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age (2009), also edited by Holliman et al. (all, Open Univ.). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. S. E. Wiegand Saint Mary's College
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Review by Choice Review