Science Cafés in the internet era

In this paper, we analyse some experiments of extending the practice of the science cafés, a well know participatory methodology of science communication, with the help of the possibilities offered by Internet. We describe the use of a web platform to disseminate the events and the use of YouTube for streaming and podcasting, with a comparison between costs and benefits. We have experimented and analysed several scenarios, from the streaming of traditional science cafés to the dissemination of the results of European projects.