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9781780931968

Science, News, and the Public Tackling the 'Red Shift' in Science Communication

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  • ISBN13:

    9781780931968

  • ISBN10:

    1780931964

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2017-08-10
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

As the rate of scientific discoveries and developments accelerates, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and relate these events to our everyday lives. The day-to-day activities of science now lie obscured behind an ever-thickening screen of corporate, civil and military secrecy, whilst the news media – the only major space left for public engagement in science development – represent it in a way that tends to drive people away from science rather than attract them to its issues and debates.

This book explores this shift in science news communication. It demonstrates that journalism needs to change the way it deals with science – altering its traditional mindsets and abandoning its much discredited techniques – if it is to maintain or regain its role as a principal force that encourages discussion and understanding of science in the public sphere.

Author Biography

An Nguyen is Senior Lecturer and Journalism Leader in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. A former science journalist from Vietnam, he specializes in online journalism, news audiences, science journalism, citizen journalism, and journalism professionalism. He is currently writing Statistics for Journalism (2012) and working on a UKIERI-funded research project on the effect of climate change communication on young people in India.

Steve McIlwain is a recently retired Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A biologist by education, he had a successful journalism career in Australia for twenty years, culminating as News Editor at The Sun in Brisbane. Since joining academe in 1987, he has spent most of his research time on science journalism and its connection to the public.

Shelley Thompson is Lecturer in the Corporate and Marketing Communications Academic Group in The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. Her research centers on media framing of social and political issues, especially emerging/controversial science. Thompson is a former US journalist who worked at a variety of publications covering finance and securities regulation, politics, education, crime, and health at the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Eagle-Tribune in its New Hampshire bureau.

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