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

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 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 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.