New Domains of the Science-Society Binomial: Open Science, Citizen Science and Informal Contexts of Public Engagement

Author Biographies

• Elsa Costa e Silva, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

  Elsa Costa e Silva is a professor of the political economy of communication and
  journalism at the University of Minho. Her research interests focus on the concentration
  of media ownership, media economics, regulation and science communication. She has
  published in several national and international journals. She was the coordinator of the
  Economics and Communication Policies Working Group of the Portuguese Association
  of Communication Sciences (Sopcom). She was a journalist at Diário de Notícias.

• Marta Entradas, Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Sociologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal/Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

  Marta Entradas is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at University
  Institute of Lisbon and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political
  Science. She is a former Marie Curie fellow at London School of Economics and
  Political Science (2016–2018), and fulbright scholar at Cornell University (2015–2016).
  In a current Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia-funded project (grant PTDC/COMOUT/
  30022/2017), she is leading a cross-national study examining public communication
  at central communication offices at research universities. She received her PhD
  in science and technology studies from University College London in 2011. She is the
  European Young Researcher Award 2016 winner (Euroscience). Her research interesses
  lie on science communication, public understanding and opinion about science and
  technology.

• Luisa Massarani, Instituto Nacional de Comunicação Pública da Ciência e Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Luisa Massarani is the coordinator of the National Institute for Public Communication of Science and Technology and a researcher at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz Brazil. She holds a PhD in management, education and diffusion in biosciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, post-doctoral studies at the University College London and Oregon State University, with a “productivity scholarship” from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development 1B and “scientist of our state” from the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro.