Science in Society Journal first issue published

The first issue of Volume 1 of The International Journal of Science in Society has now been published.

Volume 1, Number 1 contains:

• On the Philosophy of Open Science by Michael A. Peters.
• Performances of Value Strategy and Growth Strategy: Why They Receive Attention from Proponents of Standard Asset Pricing Theory by Liza Marwati Mohd Yusoff, M. Fazilah Abdul Samad and Noor Azlinna Azizan.
• Landscape Reclamation: Science, Art or Business? by Karel Grezl and John Rodger.
• Talking with Barmaids: The Importance of Science Communication in Today’s Changing World by Jean S Fleming.
• Teaching Contemporary Science from the Local Community: Are Nigeria Science Teachers Comfortable and Current with this? by Bimbola D. Oludipe.
• Empirically Examining Research Questions in the Social Sciences: Statistical Research Methods in Comparative International Sociology by Jonathan H. Westover.

• Glucosamine and Arthritis: Linking Internet Information about Glucosamine and Arthritis with Individual Uptake of this Information by Jane Elizabeth Hiscock.
• A Possible Science: Topologies of Interest in Corporeal Cultural Flows by Lisa McDonald.
• Public Response to a Student Study of the Feasibility of Nuclear Power: Distrust of Science in a Postmodern World by Wil Holden and Ann-Lise Norman.
• Maha-Cheewalai-Esarn: An Autonomous Thai University of Life by Prathurng Hongsranagon.
• The Aspiration to be Good is Bad: The ‘Impact Factor’ Hurts both Science and Society by Yehudah L. Werner.
• Children’s Drawings about Environmental Phenomena: The Use of Visual Codes by Vasilia Christidou, Vassilia Hatzinikita and Anastasia Dimitriou.
• Joyful Interdisciplinary Experimenting: Donna Haraway’s Feminist Materialised Refigurations by Lic phil I Ruth Anna Burch.
• The Great Scientific Domains and Society: A Metascience Perspective from the Domain of Computing by Paul S. Rosenbloom.
• Similarity Discovery with Social Ontologies by Shmuel Rotenstreich and George Dimitoglou.
• Information Technology and the Construction of Moral Reasoning, Empathy, and Affect: Crossing Time, Space, and Attitudes in Virtual Reality by William James Stover, Mali A. Mann and Marina Mankaryous.