Until the peer review system stops being broken by pay-to-read studies, I see no other option. And remember- to anybody outside of your special field of study, any assumptions at all will look like sloppy science based more on emotion than data.
If your research is in a special field of study, in fact a sub field, what makes you think people not interested in that sub-field would consider your work news worthy? I mean people interested in your general field of work might not even find it news worthy.
News is about how something impacts people. It's like the difference between science and engineering. Science is how things work in the world. Engineering is how we use those rules to human ends.
Two points though,
First reporting is about the audience for which your writing. The more learned the audience (i.e. one that may be interested in your field of study) the more complicated the explanations can be.
Second, science isn't the only complicated endeavour in the world, yet somehow you read articles about politics, law, economics and finance everyday. They just don't try and explain the wonky bits.
John Locke in his SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT talked of four rights of man, life, liberty, health, and property. In section 27 in the chapter titled Of Property it states:
Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.
Basically, You made it, you own it! Lockes concepts of basic human rights were further put forward in two American documents, The Declaration of Liberty and The Bill of Rights the later reinforcing the notion of a basic right to property in the Fifth Amendment.
It is the inalienable right of man to have property from which a right to profit from his labour comes.
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Until the peer review system stops being broken by pay-to-read studies, I see no other option. And remember- to anybody outside of your special field of study, any assumptions at all will look like sloppy science based more on emotion than data.
If your research is in a special field of study, in fact a sub field, what makes you think people not interested in that sub-field would consider your work news worthy? I mean people interested in your general field of work might not even find it news worthy.
News is about how something impacts people. It's like the difference between science and engineering. Science is how things work in the world. Engineering is how we use those rules to human ends.
Two points though,
First reporting is about the audience for which your writing. The more learned the audience (i.e. one that may be interested in your field of study) the more complicated the explanations can be.
Second, science isn't the only complicated endeavour in the world, yet somehow you read articles about politics, law, economics and finance everyday. They just don't try and explain the wonky bits.
Yeah, learned that one the hard way!