Topical Seminar on Scientific Communication Held on April 9
11.04.2024
New topical seminar revolved around media communication on science, health and education, a discussion beautifully launched by Dr. Gifty Appiah-Adjei from University of Education, Winneba and Dr. Maria Anikina from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The latest topical seminar meeting brought to the fore the prospects and challenges of media communication on science, health and education. Dr. Gifty Appiah-Adjei from University of Education, Winneba, shared the floor with our faculty’s Dr. Maria Anikina to exchange the experience of Ghanaian and Russian newsrooms.
Dr. Appiah-Adjei focused specifically on how AI tools are used to boost scientific coverage in Ghana, a discussion that finds grounding in her in-depth interviews with journalists and editors. As found out by the scholar, AI tools appear to be mostly used in Ghanaian newsrooms to enhance journalism routines, such as transcription, research and fact-checking. Moreover, conscious attempts are made to address algorithm bias and skills gap through human-in-the-loop approach and education of staff, yet a number of challenges, such as poor internet access, require efforts from authorities.
Dr. Maria Anikina adopted a broader lens to conceptualize scientific communication, drawing on her three-step study on mediatized and non-mediatized science, as well as university communication in Russia. According to her research, rather than scholars or science popularisers, Russian media coverage of science is mostly done by journalists, who heavily lean on press releases and science centres’ reports in their news production. As for the educational realm that is tightly linked with science in Russia, communication strategies of leading Russian universities are marked by active application of digital capabilities and a diverse and rewarding use of social networks, though there is room for improvement in the area of navigation and feedback opportunities.
Thanks to the speakers for pinpointing the importance of mass knowledge promotion!
New topical seminar revolved around media communication on science, health and education, a discussion beautifully launched by Dr. Gifty Appiah-Adjei from University of Education, Winneba and Dr. Maria Anikina from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The latest topical seminar meeting brought to the fore the prospects and challenges of media communication on science, health and education. Dr. Gifty Appiah-Adjei from University of Education, Winneba, shared the floor with our faculty’s Dr. Maria Anikina to exchange the experience of Ghanaian and Russian newsrooms.
Dr. Appiah-Adjei focused specifically on how AI tools are used to boost scientific coverage in Ghana, a discussion that finds grounding in her in-depth interviews with journalists and editors. As found out by the scholar, AI tools appear to be mostly used in Ghanaian newsrooms to enhance journalism routines, such as transcription, research and fact-checking. Moreover, conscious attempts are made to address algorithm bias and skills gap through human-in-the-loop approach and education of staff, yet a number of challenges, such as poor internet access, require efforts from authorities.
Dr. Maria Anikina adopted a broader lens to conceptualize scientific communication, drawing on her three-step study on mediatized and non-mediatized science, as well as university communication in Russia. According to her research, rather than scholars or science popularisers, Russian media coverage of science is mostly done by journalists, who heavily lean on press releases and science centres’ reports in their news production. As for the educational realm that is tightly linked with science in Russia, communication strategies of leading Russian universities are marked by active application of digital capabilities and a diverse and rewarding use of social networks, though there is room for improvement in the area of navigation and feedback opportunities.
Thanks to the speakers for pinpointing the importance of mass knowledge promotion!