Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review
Many urgent problems that societies currently face—from climate change to a global pandemic—require citizens to engage with scientific information as members of democratic societies as well as to solve problems in their personal lives. Most often, to solve their epistemic aims (aims directed at achi...
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| description | Many urgent problems that societies currently face—from climate change to a global pandemic—require citizens to engage with scientific information as members of democratic societies as well as to solve problems in their personal lives. Most often, to solve their epistemic aims (aims directed at achieving knowledge and understanding) regarding such socio-scientific issues, individuals search for information online, where there exists a multitude of possibly relevant and highly interconnected sources of different perspectives, sometimes providing conflicting information. The paper provides a review of the literature aimed at identifying (a) constraints and affordances that scientific knowledge and the online information environment entail and (b) individuals' cognitive and motivational processes that have been found to hinder, or conversely, support practices of engagement (such as critical information evaluation or two-sided dialogue). Doing this, a conceptual framework for understanding and fostering what we call online engagement with scientific information is introduced, which is conceived as consisting of individual engagement (engaging on one's own in the search, selection, evaluation, and integration of information) and dialogic engagement (engaging in discourse with others to interpret, articulate and critically examine scientific information). In turn, this paper identifies individual and contextual conditions for individuals' goal-directed and effortful online engagement with scientific information. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-119bb7630c5f4ad1bdf8ff3e5b1196ca2022-12-21T20:34:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-12-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.572744572744Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature ReviewFriederike Hendriks0Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus1Mark Felton2Kalypso Iordanou3Regina Jucks4Maria Zimmermann5Institute for Psychology in Education and Instruction, Department of Psychology and Sport Studies, University of Münster, Münster, GermanyInstitute of Educational Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, GermanyDepartment of Teacher Education, Lurie College of Education, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United StatesSchool of Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Larnaka, CyprusInstitute for Psychology in Education and Instruction, Department of Psychology and Sport Studies, University of Münster, Münster, GermanyInstitute of Educational Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, GermanyMany urgent problems that societies currently face—from climate change to a global pandemic—require citizens to engage with scientific information as members of democratic societies as well as to solve problems in their personal lives. Most often, to solve their epistemic aims (aims directed at achieving knowledge and understanding) regarding such socio-scientific issues, individuals search for information online, where there exists a multitude of possibly relevant and highly interconnected sources of different perspectives, sometimes providing conflicting information. The paper provides a review of the literature aimed at identifying (a) constraints and affordances that scientific knowledge and the online information environment entail and (b) individuals' cognitive and motivational processes that have been found to hinder, or conversely, support practices of engagement (such as critical information evaluation or two-sided dialogue). Doing this, a conceptual framework for understanding and fostering what we call online engagement with scientific information is introduced, which is conceived as consisting of individual engagement (engaging on one's own in the search, selection, evaluation, and integration of information) and dialogic engagement (engaging in discourse with others to interpret, articulate and critically examine scientific information). In turn, this paper identifies individual and contextual conditions for individuals' goal-directed and effortful online engagement with scientific information.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572744/fullepistemic cognitionargumentationscientific literacydigital literacymultiple documents literacyonline engagement with scientific information |
| spellingShingle | Friederike Hendriks Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus Mark Felton Kalypso Iordanou Regina Jucks Maria Zimmermann Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review Frontiers in Psychology epistemic cognition argumentation scientific literacy digital literacy multiple documents literacy online engagement with scientific information |
| title | Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review |
| title_full | Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review |
| title_fullStr | Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review |
| title_short | Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information—A Literature Review |
| title_sort | constraints and affordances of online engagement with scientific information a literature review |
| topic | epistemic cognition argumentation scientific literacy digital literacy multiple documents literacy online engagement with scientific information |
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