Communicating Science to Diverse People
How can we effectively communicate science to a diverse public?
Whether it is communicating scientific findings on LabintheWild, Twitter, the subreddit r/science, or elsewhere on the web, it is difficult to effectively do so when the audience is so incredibly diverse. We have studied how people are communicating science, what the effects are on diverse audiences, and how we can improve science communication.
Publications
Spencer Williams, Joy Lee, Brett A. Halperin, Joshua M. Liao, Gary Hsieh and Katharina Reinecke, "Meta-Summaries Effective for Improving Awareness and Understanding of COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research", Nature's Scientific Reports (12,19987), 2022. PDF
Spencer Williams, Ridley Jones, Katharina Reinecke, and Gary Hsieh, "An HCI Research Agenda for Online Science Communication", Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), 2022. PDF
Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, and Noah Smith, "Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity", Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. PDF
Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, and Noah Smith, "Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis", Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020. PDF
Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, Noah Smith, and Katharina Reinecke, "Explain like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science", Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020. PDF
Ridley Jones, Lucas Franco Colusso, Katharina Reinecke, and Gary Hsieh, "r/science: Challenges and Opportunities in Online Science Communication", Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019. PDF
Eunice Jun, Blue Jo, Nigini Oliveira, and Katharina Reinecke, "Digestif: Promoting Science Communication in Online Experiments", Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2018. PDF
Eunice Jun, Morelle Arian, and Katharina Reinecke, "The Potential for Scientific Outreach and Learning in Mechanical Turk Experiments", ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, 2018. PDF