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mPETS: Mediated Public Engagement with Technology and Science

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This research team investigates how scientists interact with the public through Information Technologies using the Social Informatics perspective. The current studies examine social media use and generative AI to facilitate the interaction between scientists and the public. The topics of science include climate change, health, and AI. The team name, mPETS, stands for mediated Public Engagement with Technology & Science. Ph.D. students from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering (Luddy) as well as other schools in Indiana University Bloomington are involved in research with Dr. Noriko Hara.

COVID-19

This project examines and identifies research-based strategies to help scientists improve two-way online science communication using social media to better inform, engage, and inspire the broader population to strengthen support of America’s global leadership in science.

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“Thin ice”: Climate Change Public Engagement with Scientists on Twitter during COP26

This study investigates the patterns of communications between climate scientists and the lay public on Twitter. Considering that the discussion on climate change is increasingly associated with political and social issues, we aim to identify the communication strategies of a sample of scientists and their effects on the lay public’s responses.

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Investigating the Interactions between Climate Change Organizations and the Public on Twitter

This paper addresses the use of social media, specifically Twitter, by climate change organizations and their interactions with the public.

 

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Decoding Generative AI Dialogues: Twitter Discourse Analysis Among Scientists and the Public

This project analyzes how the scientists and the public discuss the topic of generative AI on Twitter to identify what kinds of discourse genres (Kling, 1994) in which they engage and what roles they play in sharing knowledge about generative AI (Hara & Sanfilippo, 2016; 2017).

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