Is It Worth Doing Science Online? A Reflexive View on the Online Surveys

Andrey V. Rezaev () and Anastasia A. Ivanova ()
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Andrey V. Rezaev: St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Anastasia A. Ivanova: St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation

No 017AR, Proceedings of the 14th International RAIS Conference, August 19-20, 2019 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies

Abstract: The paper addresses the issues and challenges scientific communication is facing in current scholarly practices both within a specific scientific community and public at large. First, the paper presents methodological groundings for studying communication of results as a particular mechanism of operating with discourse. Such methodological framework focuses on the process of ‘black-boxing’ of scientific results. Further, the authors illustrate a way such results go from a hypothesis to a scholarly output, and call for actions. On the basis of the Online Surveys organized and conducted by the American-Russian Research Laboratory at St Petersburg State University (www.tandem.spbu.ru) for a specific field research in 2017-2018, the authors demonstrate gradual detextualization and generalization of results, which are inherent to the specific way of scientific persuasion. Finally, the authors outline the paths of the current transformation of scientific knowledge production and dissemination which calls for further research problematization.

Keywords: scientific communication; black-boxing; generalization; knowledge distribution; online surveys (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2019-08
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Published in Proceedings of the 14th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, August 19-20,2019, pages 105-108

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