PUBLIC OUTREACH : Beyond the Ivory Towers of Academia
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PUBLIC OUTREACH
Beyond theIvory Towersof Academia
Let them knowwhat you think
Jose Luis Vivero
What is myscience for?
Why do I need tocommunicate ?
Why and what to communicate?
• Why do we do science?
• The more they know, the better?
• Transdisciplinary is about leaving the tower
• Publishing in high-ranked journals is not theend of the story
• The best story-teller is yourself
• Web-based technologies are useful
• It requires time and vocabulary
Non-academic audience
• Short pieces
• Straightforward language
• No mild scientifically-cautious statements
• Links to further reading
• Examples of everyday life, practicalities
• Catchy titles: we compete with billions of news
BIOGOV TwitterAccount
• Why do we post?
• What do weexpect to gain?
• How, when & what to post?
• Targetted tweets
• TOOLS: Hotsuit, Tweetdeck
Standard affiliation for all Biomot members
• Example SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2277123
• Universite catholique de Louvain, Center for Philosophy of Law
• http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2255447
• Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre de Philosphie du Droit
Options to improve your outreach• SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2255447
• Academia: https://uclouvain.academia.edu/JoseLuisVivero?notification_code=dneAVMRs
• Slideshare (12 uploads): http://fr.slideshare.net/joseluisviveropol/food-as-a-commons-reframing-the-narrative-of-the-food-system
• Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/
• Twitter (source of information & academic distribution). You need tofollow key people/institutions and to elaborate a list of relevant accounts
• Facebook: restricted to friends
• Issuu or Scribd: http://issuu.com/joseluisvivero/docs
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCwgvtrM68
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jose-luis-vivero
• Blogs: Wordpress or Blogger
TOTAL: 66,500 views
Food as a commons
A BIOGOV Working paper Series?
Self-governed peer-reviewed Protocol?
• Inter-disciplinarity & research convergence• Voluntary but with deadlines