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Scientific communication. Is
the system by which
scientists and researchers create, distribute, use and preserve their work.
Science communication is a complex set of social and cultural practices.
Understanding it requires a collection of interdisciplinary theoretical
tools. The approach to this topic from history brings together these tools
while presenting examples from the past that have been well studied.
Three concepts are indispensable for understanding the phenomenon:
science, communication and culture.
Scientific communication is the basic mechanism for the existence and
development of science. It can be defined as the process of presenting,
distributing and receiving scientific information in society.
Scientific communication can be produced through informal
communication, which occurs more or less directly between researchers,
without being supported by any institutionalized means of scientific
communication, for example through pre-publications or workings
papers. And through formal communication, more stable, given by
institutionalized channels. Informal communication produces little
dissemination of information, although it is nevertheless useful.
However, it is formal communication, the basic way that science uses to
produce and disseminate information through predetermined channels.