Science as Collective Sensemaking

Science as Collective Sensemaking

What is Science?

Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction - Cosmik Labs

Incorporating science social media into the scientific process

Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation

Effective science communication is challenging when scientific messages are informed by a continually updating evidence base and must often compete against misinformation. We argue that we need a new program of science communication as collective intelligence—a collaborative approach, supported by technology. This would have four key advantages over the typical model where scientists communicate as individuals: scientific messages would be informed by (a) a wider base of aggregated knowledge, (b) contributions from a diverse scientific community, (c) participatory input from stakeholders, and (d) better responsiveness to ongoing changes in the state of knowledge.

Sensemaking and Science Publishing | Ronen Tamari

Sensemaking as a new framework for understanding why science publishing/peer review is broken, and how to fix it

Sensemaking Networks Part 3: building partnerships and prototypes - Cosmik Labs

Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media

Involuntary collaboration: a strategy for decentralized science

How your best co-worker, might be someone you’ll never meet

The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other

The need for an integrated social constructivist approach towards the study of science and technology is outlined. Within such a programme both scientific facts and technological artefacts are to be understood as social constructs. Literature on the sociology of science, the science-technology relationship, and technology studies is reviewed. The empirical programme of relativism within the sociology of scientific knowledge and a recent study of the social construction of technological artefacts are combined to produce the new approach. The concepts of `interpretative flexibility' and `closure mechanism', and the notion of `social group' are developed and illustrated by reference to a study of solar physics and a study of the development of the bicycle. The paper concludes by setting out some of the terrain to be explored in future studies.

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it

Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

Science Needs Scientists

And Scientists Need Science

Reality Blind - Vol. 1

Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures

Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Science Must Decentralize

Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat