While
science, technology, innovation and invention are the main factors that have
led our society to where it is today, it is the link these issues have with media
that will contribute to the path our future will take.
For
years now, science and technology have been the reason life progresses at the
rapid speed it does. Science
publishing is not just an industry, it’s also the core factory for knowledge
transfer in the world (Wilbanks, 2011). While at
the time when print media was at its peek, it consequently had been the main
source of spreading such vital information, although it was a costly process.
Now it does not have the same power it did when it initially was used.
Thanks
to the speed and progression of technology, we are at a point in time where
media has the power to spread the use and relevance of science any where around
the world. One example of this is, as written about by Elizabeth Pisani (2011), is science
researchers sharing data between them in order to speed up the process of
finding cures for diseases. By sharing each others findings and working
together, researchers will not only have access to more material, but also good
quality data. Without new media, this accessibility and distribution of this
type of information would not be possible.
As a result, this change of the use
of technology is fundamental in understanding the shift in publishing today (Wilbanks,
2011). We are now at a point where networks of data can be accessed online and
for minimal or no cost. It is this cheap and accessible distribution of common
knowledge that has contributed to the current success of science and technology
in the world today.
open science
References:
Pisani, Elizabeth (2011) ‘Medical science will benefit from the research
of crowds’, The Guardian, January 11, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/11/medical-research-data-sharing >
Wilbanks, John (2011) ‘On Science
Publishing’, Seed, < http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_science_publishing >
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