Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors *Revised 29 Sep 2014 to include previous film award won by Suraaj Aulakh. Anyone with a mobile phone can shoot a science video and put it on YouTube, just like anyone with a computer can write a science blog. There’s a difference, however, between just creating content, and […]
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Creative credit: media use across the web
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia subject editors When we started thinking about this post, Lisa noted that there’s been a lot of chatter about credit for photographers and artists in blog posts, such as the ongoing discussion about Canadian-based I Fucking Love Science and its inconsistent practice of not acknowledging sources. Not only that, […]
The multimedia is the multifaceted message
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors ‘Multimedia’ almost sounds like a quaint term from the time before the Internet, when you might do a slide presentation accompanied by music on your ghetto blaster. These days, however, many things seem to fit the multimedia moniker. Most of the Science Borealis subject categories are defined by […]
Combing for Truth, Justice, and the Canadian Way
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Communication, Education and Outreach co-editors Most of what you hear and read about science tends to focus on the process of scientific discovery itself. These are the topics that grab headlines, such as last week’s announcement that the Edmontosaurus dinosaur had a fleshy comb atop its head, not unlike that […]