Science popularization in the era of short video can not be carried out by scientific researchers alone
2022-03-08
How long did you brush the short video today? Recently, some CPPCC members proposed to use new media to promote knowledge popularization and cultural dissemination, and encourage experts and scholars in various fields to carry out popular science on short video platforms. Some deputies to the National People's Congress also suggested to encourage and support professionals to spread popular science knowledge and strengthen the supervision of the platform on popular science communication. Today, there are 880 million short video users in China, which seems to have become a booming traffic pool. The delegates and committee members all turn their attention to the short video, also because there is a large amount of daily activity here, but there are too many and miscellaneous messages. Some videos are dressed in the cloak of science and are prone to "research disclosure" and "data show". In fact, they are selling goods in the name of science. Some accounts seem authoritative and professional, but they just piece together other people's content, misinterpret and exaggerate, and mislead the audience. Of course, in recent years, more and more researchers are accepting and embracing the identity of "science blogger". After all, where there is traffic, science popularization workers should expand their territory. To spread sound well, you have to use a good horn. However, most of these science popularization personnel "generate electricity for love", have no team and investment, and sometimes worry about being misunderstood as "not doing business" by their predecessors or peers. Short video pursues the characteristics of "short, flat and fast", which is also in contradiction with the rigorous scientific research content. In order to generate popular funds by popular science in the field of short video, which is unfamiliar to researchers, it is actually very necessary to study and try. Therefore, making good use of short videos to popularize science needs many efforts. As the representative members said, we should have a mechanism to encourage researchers to show their faces on the platform and remove obstacles for them to embrace the short video platform; The platform should also tilt the flow of relevant content and actively push high-quality popular science content to potential audiences. The platform itself also has to set an access threshold for the so-called popular science bloggers, strengthen the formal review of knowledge accounts, and evaluate and grasp the content. Relevant departments can also create conditions to support and encourage scientific research institutes, popular science institutions and short video platforms to reach cooperation, and let professional "think tanks" check the popular science content. In fact, it is not necessary for scientific researchers to take part in science popularization in person. They can also try to "match" the scientific research team and professional short video team, learn from each other's strengths and make up for their weaknesses, and raise the banner of Science in the short video position. (Xinhua News Agency)
Edit:Li Ling Responsible editor:Chen Jie
Source:Science and Technology Daily
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