Science journalism is a previously neglected but rapidly growing area of scholarship in postgenomics medicine and socio-technical studies of knowledge-based innovations. Science journalism can help evaluate the quantity and quality of information flux between traditional scientific expert communities and the broader public, for example, in personalized medicine education. Newspapers can play a ...

While game criticism has been largely tied to the world of enthusiast press game reviews the emergence of the academic field of game studies and the maturing world of game journalism opens new opportunities to consider the future of the game critique. Today, the critical dialog around games can approach its subject from several vectors—social, psychological, historical, aesthetic, philosophical...

Data journalism includes three dimensions and requires three different types of journalism skills: computer assisted reporting, news applications development and data visualization. Computer assisted reporting represents an expertise in obtaining, analyzing and finding newsworthy angles in data. News reporters with this skill are able to discover interesting and relevant findings by analyzing d...

Sensationalism in medical reporting occurs when extravagant claims or interpretations about research findings are made. Sensationalism in medical reporting has been discussed extensively,1–9 and a few years ago one author predicted that “the tensions are likely to increase.”1 The conventional explanation for the problem is “miscommunication” resulting from the different styles of science and jo...

This article examines the effectiveness of using wikis for collaborative projects in college journalism classrooms, with the principles of andragogy as a framework. The use of wikis in two journalism courses at a large university in the American Midwest illustrates how wikis can encourage learners to become more selfdirected by engaging in online collaborative writing about how best to produce ...

Mainstream U.S. newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the press moved online. By the mid 2000s social media and web interactivity were common, and print news had not yet entered the profitability and jobs crisis-to-come. A study i...

Presenting relevant information via web-based user friendly interfaces makes the information more accessible to the general public. This is especially useful for sensor networks that monitor natural environments. Adequately communicating this type of information helps increase awareness about the limited availability of natural resources and promotes their better use with sustainable practices....

-The effort of this article is regarding to detect jamming attacks in wireless networks. The Jamming detection and techniques have been proposed in the journalism. They established results by the authors are often CA and JADE as most of the jamming regions are closely marked, and they do not help to clearly differentiate jamming mechanisms. We explore a different jamming attack by discovering t...

The increasing frequency of use of data and code in journalistic projects drives the need to develop guidelines or frameworks for how to responsibly and accountably employ algorithms and data in acts of journalism. One route to the accountable use of algorithms in journalistic work is to develop standards and expectations for transparency. In this paper we describe steps toward transparency wit...