`Popular' journals and community in American astronomy, 1882 - 1951

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Jun 2005

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 49 - 64 (2005).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Popularization, Sidereal Messenger, Popular Astronomy, William W. Payne, Carleton College, American Astronomical Society, Trade Journals

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Popularization fulfils several important roles beyond those recognized in the culturally-dominant view. Apart from its intended purpose of diffusing scientific knowledge among various audiences, popularization serves practitioners, especially when exercised in the format of a disciplinary `trade' journal.
`Trade' journals inform researchers about developments occurring in areas of knowledge production beyond their immediate specialties. Such journals offer routine assessments and reviews of current investigations, innovations, and issues facing researchers and educators alike. These outlets attract new recruits into the profession, through encouragement of research methods and the explication of lingering problems. Most importantly, they serve to shape, direct, and influence peer-level dialogues and decisions upon future courses of action, including the research process itself.
In an inversion of the culturally-dominant view of popularization, such trade journals comprise an essential, if little-recognized, component of disciplinary professionalization.

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