Is an understanding of science important, and what are the issues involved in
communicating it? Science in Public uniquely draws together the broad range of theory and …

This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations and technologies,
concentrating on nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology. The focus is on …

The presentation of science in the mass media is one of the most important questions facing
social scientists who analyse science. Accordingly, media coverage of science has been a …

Science communication is said to have changed in the past decades. It is widely assumed
that science is no longer merely transported and translated by the mass media to a passive …

This survey article discusses a recently proposed perspective on the science–media
interface the concept of medialization. The medialization approach assumes that there is …

The public communication of science is an activity within constraints. It takes place in an
evolving cultural, economic, and political environment; and it is in that context that science …

In recent years, a Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged in public discourse as a narrative of
exceptional societal disruption. At the core of this conceptual construct, led by the World …

This paper aims to explore the potential suitability of the press as a teaching resource for
raising scientific literacy for citizenship within science education. Our methodology is based …

A content analysis of scientific news coverage in Dutch newspapers was conducted and
supplemented with interviews with ten news editors and science journalists. In a total of …

Diesem Buch liegt eine Dissertation zugrunde, die im Kontext des Forschungsprojektes
„Mediale Diskurse liber Humangenomforschung in Deutschland und den USA im Vergleich" …