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There is an increasing need for scholars and scientists to not only conduct research that has a significant impact on society but also to communicate that research widely. Such research outreach also contributes to engaging wide, diverse audiences. As such, the discursive practices have become more and more complex, multimodal, and multimedia-based for scholars and scientists. Scientific communication is currently shared to a great extent with peers in technology-mediated contexts, which allows formal scientific publications to be opened to public viewing. Alongside this so-called “primary output” (Puschmann 2015), new ways, modes, and discourses are being used to bring science closer to a lay audience and promote citizen participation. The affordances of existing and emergent platforms are fostering a change in audience roles, and with it, the erosion of boundaries between scientific communities and the general public, entailing the dissemination of scientific information and knowledge beyond the former (Trench 2008). We are thus witnessing the development of discursive practices which may be referred to as instances of “parascientific communication”. These practices transcend previously well-delimited communities and spheres of communication. Parascientific genres are evolving based on authoritative or expert knowledge (communicated through conventional, sanctioned scientific genres) but not subjected to the filters of internal, formal science communication (Kelly and Miller 2016). This Special Issue seeks to gain a better understanding of the purposes and specific features of these new scientific communication practices.

Research & information: general --- preprints --- open science --- science communication --- social media --- Total SciComm --- COVID-19 --- health communication --- user-generated content --- reader comments --- vaccines --- vaccine denial --- conspiracy theories --- digital news articles --- citizens' agentive power --- parascientific genres --- pseudoscience --- COVID-19 information --- knowledge communication --- knowledge-building processes --- multimodality --- social media engagement --- discourse analysis --- digital humanities --- textometry --- authority --- legitimacy --- blog posts --- dialogicity --- identity --- personal vs. institutional blogs --- graphical abstracts --- genre hybridity --- stylisation --- interpretive complexity --- visual literacy --- preprints --- open science --- science communication --- social media --- Total SciComm --- COVID-19 --- health communication --- user-generated content --- reader comments --- vaccines --- vaccine denial --- conspiracy theories --- digital news articles --- citizens' agentive power --- parascientific genres --- pseudoscience --- COVID-19 information --- knowledge communication --- knowledge-building processes --- multimodality --- social media engagement --- discourse analysis --- digital humanities --- textometry --- authority --- legitimacy --- blog posts --- dialogicity --- identity --- personal vs. institutional blogs --- graphical abstracts --- genre hybridity --- stylisation --- interpretive complexity --- visual literacy

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There is an increasing need for scholars and scientists to not only conduct research that has a significant impact on society but also to communicate that research widely. Such research outreach also contributes to engaging wide, diverse audiences. As such, the discursive practices have become more and more complex, multimodal, and multimedia-based for scholars and scientists. Scientific communication is currently shared to a great extent with peers in technology-mediated contexts, which allows formal scientific publications to be opened to public viewing. Alongside this so-called “primary output” (Puschmann 2015), new ways, modes, and discourses are being used to bring science closer to a lay audience and promote citizen participation. The affordances of existing and emergent platforms are fostering a change in audience roles, and with it, the erosion of boundaries between scientific communities and the general public, entailing the dissemination of scientific information and knowledge beyond the former (Trench 2008). We are thus witnessing the development of discursive practices which may be referred to as instances of “parascientific communication”. These practices transcend previously well-delimited communities and spheres of communication. Parascientific genres are evolving based on authoritative or expert knowledge (communicated through conventional, sanctioned scientific genres) but not subjected to the filters of internal, formal science communication (Kelly and Miller 2016). This Special Issue seeks to gain a better understanding of the purposes and specific features of these new scientific communication practices.

preprints --- open science --- science communication --- social media --- Total SciComm --- COVID-19 --- health communication --- user-generated content --- reader comments --- vaccines --- vaccine denial --- conspiracy theories --- digital news articles --- citizens’ agentive power --- parascientific genres --- pseudoscience --- COVID-19 information --- knowledge communication --- knowledge-building processes --- multimodality --- social media engagement --- discourse analysis --- digital humanities --- textometry --- authority --- legitimacy --- blog posts --- dialogicity --- identity --- personal vs. institutional blogs --- graphical abstracts --- genre hybridity --- stylisation --- interpretive complexity --- visual literacy --- n/a --- citizens' agentive power

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This Special Issue includes articles which discuss the longstanding recognition of diverse connections between spirituality and addiction, as well as emerging discussions regarding the spiritual dimensions of addiction treatments. The overall focus is on the overlaps between the journey into addiction and the spiritual journey, informed by the insight of Carl Jung that addictive craving and the seeking of ultimate meaning may be intimately connected. The multiplicity of forms which addiction can assume in contemporary society are the scope of the issue. The overall purpose of the Special Issue is to extend the range of manifestations of addiction which are part of a discussion relating to the soul of recovery. Through this extended agenda of forms of addiction, the Special Issue supplements existing literature on the subject of spirituality and addiction.

addiction --- addiction treatment --- Buddhism --- mindfulness --- ontological addiction --- recovery --- Twelve-Step Program --- climate change --- addictions --- eating disorders --- existential psychology --- healing --- Internal Family Systems --- nonduality --- psychotherapy --- transpersonal psychotherapy --- Alcoholics Anonymous --- religiousness --- involvement in self-help groups --- meaning in life --- spiritual experiences --- mediator variable --- workaholism --- workplace spirituality --- worker profiles --- Portuguese employees --- ego --- unique personhood --- ontology --- epistemology --- contemplative traditions --- Western Enlightenment --- developmental psychology --- transcendental reductionism --- Fourth Turning in Buddhism --- Bible journaling --- biblical spirituality --- drug addiction --- journaling addiction --- addiction recovery --- multimodality --- multimodal analysis --- religious beliefs --- religious attitudes --- optimism --- pessimism --- players of games of chance --- spiritual addiction --- faith --- truth --- hope --- reason --- religion --- love --- reality --- collective moral crisis --- n/a

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This reprint focuses on the transcatheter treatment of the main structural heart diseases covering the latest innovations and hot topics on this subject. All the technological developments witnessed in recent decades have made structural heart disease interventions a growing field and have contributed to offering patients less invasive, more effective, and safe alternative approaches.

Medicine --- Cardiovascular medicine --- cerebral protection device --- transcatheter aortic valve replacement --- stroke --- cerebrovascular events --- bovine aortic arch --- TAVR --- percutaneous access --- vascular complications --- surgical cut-down --- transfemoral approach --- aortic stenosis --- transcatheter aortic valve implantation --- valvular heart disease --- congestion --- plasma volume --- risk stratification --- TAVI --- SAVR --- young --- balloon aortic valvuloplasty --- bridge therapy --- destination therapy --- heart failure --- transradial coronaro-angiography --- single-catheter technique --- coronary artery disease --- futility --- transfemoral --- transcatheter --- aortic valve --- vascular --- complications --- BASILICA --- coronary artery obstruction --- structural heart intervention --- transcatheter mitral valve replacement --- mitral regurgitation --- transoesophageal echocardiography --- cardiac computed tomography --- TAVI degeneration --- SAVR after TAVI --- long-term outcome of TAVI --- tricuspid regurgitation --- atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation --- transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions --- echocardiography --- three-dimensional echocardiography --- multimodality imaging --- sizing --- planning --- MDCT --- 3D echocardiography --- MRI --- n/a