I couldn’t resist a quick comment on the UK media’s sudden interest in Big Computers, and my annoyance with the shallowness of reporting in the media when it comes to anything technical. I offer no solutions, just complaints.
Great post as usual Michael, and something that often has me looking like a "mad man" raising my voice at the television.
I can't see an easy solution to this problem either - though publications such as The Conversation provide a semblance of hope since they work with the author(s) of a study to communicate it in a way that would make sense to laypersons whilst still addressing the main concepts. These publications would need to find a way to break into the mainstream to properly counteract the hyped up articles - though, how this could be done from a pragmatic point of view is anyone's guess.
Thanks Kevin. Yes, The Conversation is a nice model of the media working closely with academics to produce meaningful content. But yes, not really a mainstream publication. Maybe they could syndicate their content to more mainstream publishers? Though I guess if that was possible to do practically and financially, then they would have already considered it.
Great post as usual Michael, and something that often has me looking like a "mad man" raising my voice at the television.
I can't see an easy solution to this problem either - though publications such as The Conversation provide a semblance of hope since they work with the author(s) of a study to communicate it in a way that would make sense to laypersons whilst still addressing the main concepts. These publications would need to find a way to break into the mainstream to properly counteract the hyped up articles - though, how this could be done from a pragmatic point of view is anyone's guess.
Thanks Kevin. Yes, The Conversation is a nice model of the media working closely with academics to produce meaningful content. But yes, not really a mainstream publication. Maybe they could syndicate their content to more mainstream publishers? Though I guess if that was possible to do practically and financially, then they would have already considered it.