For the first time in the practice of a scientific communication, I offer to transform a published article in presentation with much more illustrations and additional comments (including voice comments) to facilitate understanding of the ideas contained in a scientific paper. What is your opinion about?
The presentation: ProtoPhysiology and the origin of life (multimedia article) https://youtu.be/fSZ2h5-IJgI - 38 min
The presentation is the audio-video form of my paper: Matveev, V.V. (2017) Comparison of fundamental physical properties of the model cells (protocells) and the living cells reveals the need in protophysiology, International Journal of Astrobiology, 16(1), pp.97–104. doi: 10.1017/S1473550415000476; URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1473550415000476
How about this, relatively new approach in science communication?
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE, ONE PINT AT A TIME
"Pint of Science was born in 2012 when two Post-doctoral researchers Praveen Paul and Michael Motskin organised ‘Meet the Researchers’, an event that brought people affected by neurodegenerative diseases into their labs so that they could see the research being carried out there. The guests were fascinated by the visit, this event inspired them. They thought that, if people want to come to labs to meet scientists, why not bring scientists to people? This was the birth of Pint of Science...
Why is it such a success and why communicating science is so important?
The success of the festival rests on the very relaxed way of communicating science, where anyone has a place and people don’t think it’s very complicated or that you have to be smarter or have a higher degree to participate. Anyone can just sit in the pub during our events and enjoy the science talk which can be on anything (from atoms to galaxies and everything in between). Pint of Science works because the format is great but also because people want to hear more and more about science and not least science that happens around them in their cities..."
https://www.euroscientist.com/communicating-science-one-pint-at-a-time/
The idea is important, but it needs more development. It looks like a classical course.
To avoid this inconvenience , the presentation must faithfully reflect the article:
the text of the article must appear and the presentation must be more dynamical.
You could also try a translation using other languages (French, ...) to make it more comprehensible.
Dear Mohamed El Hafidi,
Many thanks for your comment. My multimedia article is only the first step. Of course, further improvements are possible.
Best wishes,
Vladimir
Dear Vladimir Matveev,
in my opinion, the best instrument of communication in science would be an Online Tool as a FUNCTIONAL SITE. Maybe I'm wrong, but most scientists who know and write in English, do not have the skills to freely understand live English speech. If any text in English can be easily translated (e.g. by using Google Translator), today there is no such translator from a voice that would translate qualitatively even into the text. Therefore, most researchers will still prefer to look at the printed version of the report. On the site you can place out all the ways for presenting the report and let everyone choose: watch, listen or read. For example, I choose to watch and read, for me it would be more understandable. Once again I want to note that maybe I'm wrong.
Thank you, Gennady. I agree with your opinion that oral English is difficult for perception for speakers of other languages. Now I'm preparing the same multimedia article in Russian.
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