Yes... Especialy if the society is well educated and know well about your topic

في بعض الاحيان يحدث العكس.

وتاريخ العلم يبرهن على ذلك.

بصفة عامة أحيانا تكون علاقات القوة السياسية والثقافية والاقتصادية والدينية. مقاومة للتفكير النظري الحر والابداعي.

Sometimes the opposite happens.

The history of science proves this.

In general, political, cultural, economic and religious power relations maybe resistant to the free and creative theoretical thinking

Yes it can.

Yes, if social communication is taking place between specialists, well educated parties. Or, a very smart specialist may extract scientific theory by deeply analyzing social communication in general.

this link is useful

sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/.../BehavioralChangeTheories/BehavioralChang...

regards

"Can social communication help to innovate and develop scientific theory?" -- You ask,

I think that that is the case.

1) Exchange of perpectives and viewpoints is often a way of teaching and learning. For example, If I get feeback from my colleages I can change or ameliorate my initial perspective.

2) Such an exchange of perspectices is particularly important if it takes places between experts in the same domain or even in different domain of knowledge.

3) Social commnication and exchange of knowldege often lies at the heart of a better knowlegede of the unknown and the propostion of new hypotheses and even theories.

Kind regards,

Orlando

Social communication and other communications contribute only to the exchange of information, revision and liquidation, and help in receiving criticism and analysis, all of which contribute to the innovation and development of scientific theories

Any communication can only help in the endeavor of innovation and scientific theory development. But make certain that the communication exchanged is among knowledgeable persons so that the researcher is not misled down the wrong path. With so much unreliable information present on the web this is an important issue to consider.

Obviously more minds working on a theme will get you newer ideas & innovation

Yes, it help to develop the scientific theory. The discussion through communication is very much helpful for it.

Social communication and other communications contribute only to the exchange of information, revision and filttering, and help in receiving criticism and analysis, all of which contribute to the innovation and development of scientific theories

I think it depends... In cases of environmental sciences problems it may be much more useful while in cases like nano scale models, gravitational waves etc. it may not help you (except peer group discussion).

In the former case, it is the requirement. Like India has a good debate/idea on biological conservation and human animal conflict, and Ukraine has good development on efficient irrigation systems. So social communication can be win win for both parts if it happens on such topics...