posted: April 17, 2008 - 8:21am by apryl
tags: conferences, FEST, science media, Scientific Communication, Web 2.0

I just wanted to share a little bit about the FEST conference as it is taking place in Trieste, Italy. If you are at the conference and have questions about SciVee, feel free to leave me a message or meet me after the roundtable on Friday. I will be giving a presentation about SciVee at 6:30 and taking questions afterwards.

For those who have not heard about FEST, it is an international science media fair, but you can learn more about it at: http://www.festrieste.it/eng_chisiamo.html.
The Italian version is at: http://www.festrieste.it/

At the roundtable “Science Communication in Europe” both Franco Del Campo and Michel Claessen, two European scientific journalists, mentioned a study where surveys were conducted questioning who would be the preferred source of scientific communication. A journalist who shares information about the science, or a scientist who communicates about their science? Results strongly showed that the preferred source was the scientist as the scientific communicator. I am interested in finding out more about this survey data, but I found this interesting and in support of what SciVee is providing for scientists. What do you think?

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