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

4 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2019

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Andrey V. Rezaev

Saint Petersburg State University

Anastasia A. Ivanova

Saint Petersburg State University

Date Written: August 20, 2019

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

Suggested Citation

Rezaev, Andrey V. and Ivanova, Anastasia A., Is It Worth Doing Science Online? A Reflexive View on the Online Surveys (August 20, 2019). RAIS Conference Proceedings - The 14th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3459628 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3459628

Andrey V. Rezaev (Contact Author)

Saint Petersburg State University ( email )

7-9, Universitetskaya nab.
Saint Petersburg, 199034
Russia

Anastasia A. Ivanova

Saint Petersburg State University ( email )

7-9, Universitetskaya nab.
Saint Petersburg, 199034
Russia

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