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Science Miscommunication: Impacting Digital Citizenship with Information Literacy Samuel R. Putnam, Engineering Librarian Marston Science Library at the University of Florida

Catalyst Synthesis Methods Lessons Learned

What brought you here? Catalyst for action

What role does science play? Synthesis of ideas

What is Science Communication? Science communication (SciCom) is defined as the use of appropriate skills, media, activities, and dialogue to produce one or more of the following personal responses to science (the AEIOU vowel analogy): Awareness, Enjoyment, Interest, Opinion-forming, and Understanding. T. W. Burns, D. J. O’Connor, and S. M. Stocklmayer, “Science Communication: A Contemporary Definition,” Public Underst. Sci. , vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 183 – 202, Apr. 2003.

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What are you doing? Our methods

Good Bad Science Science Science

Predatory open-access journals

Retractions

Media Misinformatio n

Link to the source

Interview the author

Consult the field

Authority

What did you do wrong? Lesson learned from the field

1.Marketing is hard, especially when it’s not your library.

2. Web presence is important, but keep it simple.

3. Allow time for venting, but always be constructive.

Samuel Putnam Engineering Librarian Marston Science Library University of Florida srputnam@ufl.edu @samuel_putnam https://medium.com/@samuel_putnam/ guides.uflib.ufl.edu/fnse 3 4