Faire parler la science. Entretien croisé avec Jihane Benamar, Delphine Cavallo, Lisa George et Amélie Vairelles (chargées de communication scientifique)

Abstract

As part of the “Humanities and social sciences at work” cycle, this interview gives the floor to four communication managers who work or have worked in social science laboratories and, for one of them, in exact sciences. At a time of increasing individualization of careers and widespread competition for skills, the conversations with these skilled science public speakers open up many relevant questions, beyond the strictly communicational field: What do digital social networks (DSN) do to the research professions, and to communicators? What do higher education and research institutions do with them? What uses do they recommend for researchers and research support professions? How can we understand certain paradoxical injunctions (regarding Twitter, for instance)? Tracing the careers and activities of these colleagues allows us not only to question the role of scientific communication and mediation in the light of the DSN, but also to describe the effects that the transformation of certain communication tools has on professional practices and ethics.

Keywords

• social network
• Twitter
• scholarly communication
• scientific administration
• scientific occupation