22. Blogs, big physics and breaking news

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How are blogs changing the way science news develops and is reported? The commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will offer a telling case study over the next few years. Who will be first with news of the fabled Higgs Boson, and how will we know if they're right?

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Thursday, July 2, 2009 11:30 - 13:00
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2009-07-04 11:27

It's perhaps fitting that as CERN was the site where the World Wide Web had its own big bang that this session should consider the impact that the web, in particular Web 2.0, has been having on CERN's most famous gadget, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The panellists considered how corporate and independent science blogs might be shuffling into place alongside traditional news media in terms of reliability of the information posted there, often anonymously, and whether blogs can be trusted as a news source and appropriately evaluated.

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