Separated by common methods? Researchers and journalists doing expertise

NewsMate: Expertise Management for Journalists

The paper describes the design of a system that is informed by an empirical study of radio journalists. When reporting news it is important to frame the problem and give an appropriate background so that an understandable and representative picture is provided. To frame the problem, or rather to shape how something is going to be reported, is done in continuous discussion among the journalists....

Joining the conversation: newspaper journalists' views on working with researchers.

For health researchers who seek more research use in policy making to improve health and healthcare, working with the news media may represent an opportunity, given the media's pivotal role in public policy agenda-setting. Much literature on science and health journalism assumes a normative stance, focusing on improving the accuracy of news coverage. In this study, we investigated journalists' ...

Do researchers know what they are doing?

Character, Common-sense, and Expertise

Gilbert Harman has argued that the common-sense characterological psychology employed in virtue ethics is rooted not in unbiased observation of close acquaintances, but rather in the “fundamental attribution error”. If this is right, then philosophers cannot rely on their intuitions for insight into characterological psychology, and it might even be that there is no such thing as character. Thi...

Impediments to Systems Thinking: Communities Separated by a Common Language

Systems-thinking requires participants to view problems, and their solutions, within the context of the overall system. When this involves participants from diverse professional communities, several barriers to effective communication can arise. As in all human communities, shorthand representations, such as specialized jargon, that aid in efficient and precise communications have developed. Th...