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Discussions about science always bring to mind a certain kind of detachment from the mainstream. The need of specific talent and skill set has ensured that the public views it as an elitist institution and fails to recognize its value. We witness a massive gap in communication between this ‘elitist’ culture and the general public. While this is not something new, from a historical point of view, since this divide was much more prominent in earlier times, mostly due to the lack of sufficient technology for communication. But current advancements have given us an unique situation where the traditional authorities on information, namely the press and the government, is being slowly getting bogged down by the emerging social platforms that have …show more content…

Public forums can become the hubs of potential grant money if a particular idea is presented in a good way. Already websites such as ResearchGate have sprung up that cater specifically to academia. It is a forum where one can present one’s research and papers. It offers profile pages where a scientist can present and discuss one’s work openly. Academia.edu is another great website designed for sharing academic papers. According to Nature magazine nearly 3 million papers have been uploaded to academi.edu and about 14 million have been uploaded to ResearchGate (). These are staggering numbers considering the fact that the vast majority of these papers would have never been made available to the public if it hadn’t been for these websites. These numbers also suggest that while the presence of scientists online is not what one would hope, they are making an effort to get out the shell and have been doing so for quite some time now. Even in 2006, some scientists felt the need to increase their social media presence to shed some light on environmental debates. They used blogs to communicate these debates (). This was one of the earliest instances of scientists providing credible source of information online. Scientists may have realized that internet scope is truly global and its effects nearly immediate, especially if something go ‘viral’. Besides this there have been two other major projects that have taken it upon themselves to change the public perception of science and scientist – hashtag #iamscience and ‘This is What a Scientist Looks Like’ (http://lookslikescience.tumblr.com/)(holly). These initiatives are meant to destroy the lab coat wearing stereotype of scientists and make his image more accessible to the

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