Figure 8.1 The percentage of people aged 16+ responding to the question about which were their most frequent sources of information about science. The data has been taken from PAS 2011.

Figure 8.3 The number of lab lit novels published by both scientists and non-scientists. Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature, Rohn, J. More lab in the library, 465:552, copyright 2010.

Figure 8.4 Scientific method framework for citizen science.

Figure 8.5 Scientific method framework for patient user involvement in research.

Figure 8.6 The lifecycle of a blog. Sources include other blogs, news services, journal articles, popular media and the personal knowledge of the blogger. For science blogs, posts are often based on recent science announcements and more rarely articles. Sometimes science bloggers blog about their own research. Reprinted from Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, Wilkins, J., The roles, reasons and restrictions of science blogs, 411–413, Copyright 2008, with permission from Elsevier.