Will Mason‐Wilkes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6458836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Mason‐Wilkes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason‐Wilkes |
| SIGNATURE | WILKES W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8648-6205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“It’s Like Listening to a Really Nice Sermon”
Popular culture in the United Kingdom often presents science as well aligned with forms of nonreligion, particularly atheism. Publics’ self-perceptions and socio-cultural understandings are shaped by popular culture and media representations. To explore the impacts of science media on UK atheists and other non-religious people, qualitative semi-structured interviews (n = 11) were conducted to understand science media engagement, how diverse repre…
Dark citizen science
Citizen science is often celebrated. We interrogate this position through exploration of socio-technoscientific phenomena that mirror citizen science yet are disaligned with its ideals. We term this ‘Dark Citizen Science’. We identify five conceptual dimensions of citizen science – purpose, process, perceptibility, power and public effect . Dark citizen science mirrors traditional citizen science in purpose and process but diverges in perceptibil…
Emphasizing uncertainty, celebrating community and valuing values
Specific pieces of science communication shape publics’ more general impression of science, whether intentionally or not. This, in turn, affects how publics interact with science, acts as citizens in techno-scientific societies, and ultimately has implications for the role of science as an institution in democratic societies. Representations of science that downplay scientific uncertainty, elide the role of the scientific community, and de-emphas…
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the 1970s social analysts have seen communication between scientists not solely as information exchange (the algorithmical model), but as a process of socialization into overlapping and mutually embedded scientific domains (the enculturational model). Under the algorithmical model, the impact of the Covid-19 shutdown on travel would be easily remedied by replacing face-to-face communication with online platforms. Conferences and similar gat…
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the 1970s social analysts have seen communication between scientists not solely as information exchange (the algorithmical model), but as a process of socialization into overlapping and mutually embedded scientific domains (the enculturational model). Under the algorithmical model, the impact of the Covid-19 shutdown on travel would be easily remedied by replacing face-to-face communication with online platforms. Conferences and similar gat…
Emphasizing uncertainty, celebrating community and valuing values
Specific pieces of science communication shape publics’ more general impression of science, whether intentionally or not. This, in turn, affects how publics interact with science, acts as citizens in techno-scientific societies, and ultimately has implications for the role of science as an institution in democratic societies. Representations of science that downplay scientific uncertainty, elide the role of the scientific community, and de-emphas…
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the 1970s social analysts have seen communication between scientists not solely as information exchange (the algorithmical model), but as a process of socialization into overlapping and mutually embedded scientific domains (the enculturational model). Under the algorithmical model, the impact of the Covid-19 shutdown on travel would be easily remedied by replacing face-to-face communication with online platforms. Conferences and similar gat…
Dark citizen science
Citizen science is often celebrated. We interrogate this position through exploration of socio-technoscientific phenomena that mirror citizen science yet are disaligned with its ideals. We term this ‘Dark Citizen Science’. We identify five conceptual dimensions of citizen science – purpose, process, perceptibility, power and public effect . Dark citizen science mirrors traditional citizen science in purpose and process but diverges in perceptibil…
“It’s Like Listening to a Really Nice Sermon”
Popular culture in the United Kingdom often presents science as well aligned with forms of nonreligion, particularly atheism. Publics’ self-perceptions and socio-cultural understandings are shaped by popular culture and media representations. To explore the impacts of science media on UK atheists and other non-religious people, qualitative semi-structured interviews (n = 11) were conducted to understand science media engagement, how diverse repre…
Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Science communication (3 works) · Science education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Citizen science (2 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 works)