Knowledge broker, trust broker, value broker

The roles of the Science Media Center during the Covid-19 pandemic

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ID6170340
AutoresIrene Broer (0000-0002-9995-4749, Hans-Bredow-Institute), Louisa Pröschel (0000-0002-6913-4205, Hans-Bredow-Institute)
Ano2022
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas101-118
Data de publicação2022-06-29
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Communication Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1424-4896 • E-ISSN: 2296-4150
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24434/j.scoms.2022.01.3070
OpenAlexW4283715252
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas42

In the communicative figuration of science communication (Hepp & Hasebrink, 2017), a variety of actors, practices and orientations contribute to the mediation of scientific knowledge and expertise. By curating scientific content for a journalistic audience, Science Media Centers (SMCs) can take up a powerful intermediary position. In this paper, we apply a figurational framework to understand what roles SMCs can take in science communication. Building on ethnographic material gathered during January and October 2020, we analyze through which practices, communicative relations, mission and normative assumptions SMC Germany has shaped its position in science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doing so, we follow the “cultural turn” in science communication research. Building on the concept of brokerage, we conclude that SMC Germany has taken on roles as a knowledge broker by providing journalists with curated scientific content, a trust broker by facilitating relationships between journalists and scientists, and a value broker by promoting the status of scientific expertise in the social knowledge order

Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Mediation · Normative · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Position (finance · Public relations · Science communication · Science education · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Public Relations and Crisis Communication