Twitter como objeto de investigación en comunicación de la ciencia

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https://doi.org/10.14198/MEDCOM000006

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Twitter, comunicación de la ciencia, periodismo científico, divulgación, redes sociales, análisis de redes

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El servicio de microblogging Twitter, utilizado a la vez como red de información y como red social, es un objeto de investigación emergente con gran potencial para explorar la difusión de la ciencia, pero sobre el que existe cierto desorden teórico. Es por ello que en este artículo se documentan, en primer lugar, una serie de resultados relevantes en estudios de comunicación que se centran en el ecosistema Twitter. En segundo lugar, se sitúa el foco en el ámbito de la comunicación de la ciencia, para el que se exponen trabajos ilustrativos con el fin proporcionar una perspectiva de conjunto sobre los distintos propósitos, enfoques y metodologías utilizadas, en vistas a servir de marco conceptual para trabajos futuros. Además, como resultado de esta compilación, se esclarecen las principales funciones que desempeña Twitter como herramienta de comunicación científica, que dependiendo de los actores involucrados y sus objetivos aparentes se configuran de manera específica e incluso empíricamente observable. Se plantea asimismo una distinción entre dos aproximaciones de investigación; una centrada en la información —los temas científicos de interés público— y otra en los agentes difusores —científicos, periodistas e instituciones—. Por último, se sugieren algunas direcciones de investigación específicas para ulteriores estudios.

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Denia, E. (2021). Twitter como objeto de investigación en comunicación de la ciencia. Revista Mediterránea De Comunicación, 12(1), 289–301. https://doi.org/10.14198/MEDCOM000006

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