Science and the Internet

Alan Gross is a professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and its extensive revision, Starring the Text. With his long-term collaborator Joseph Harmon, he has written Communicating Science, The Scientific Literature, The Craft of Scientific Communication, and Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning. Jonathan Buehl is an associate professor and director of Business and Technical Writing in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His research interests include the rhetoric of science, visual rhetoric, research methodology, and digital media studies. He is the author of Assembling Arguments: Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse (forthcoming, University of South Carolina Press) and essays (published or forthcoming) in College Composition and Communication and Technical Communication Quarterly.

• CHAPTER 1. Revolution or Evolution? Casing the Impact of Digital Media on the Rhetoric of Science Jonathan BuehlCHAPTER 2. Learning to “Share Your Science”: The Open Notebook as Textual Object and Dynamic Rhetorical Space Chad WickmanCHAPTER 3. The Scientific Journal: Making It New? Joseph E. HarmonCHAPTER 4. Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight in the Sciences Alan G. GrossCHAPTER 5. The Online Research Article and the Ecological Basis of New Digital Genres Christian F. CasperCHAPTER 6. The Chemistry Liveblogging Event: The Web Refigures Peer Review Michelle SidlerCHAPTER 7. Controversies on the Web: The Case of Adult Human Neurogenesis Jeanne FahnestockCHAPTER 8. Radiolab and Parasites: Podcasting Horror and Wonder to Foster Interest in ScienceSarah WardlawCHAPTER 9. Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk Charles Kostelnick and John KostelnickCHAPTER 10. Meltdowns in the Media: Visualization of Radiation Risk from The Printed Page to the InternetJames WynnCHAPTER 11. Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the Internet Ashley R. Kelly and Carolyn R. MillerCHAPTER 12. Why People Care About Chickens and Other Lessons About Rhetoric, Public Science, and Informal Learning Environments Stacey Pigg, William Hart-Davidson, Jeff Grabill, and Kirsten EllenbogenCHAPTER 13. Afterword: Social Changes in Science Communication: Rattling the Information Chain Charles BazermanEditors’ Biographies Contributors Index