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Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

Paperback • 1999 • English • 1. edition

Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

By Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers

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This work, by the editors of "Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News", explores scientific uncertainty and media coverage of it in such major public issues as AISA, biotechnology, dioxin, global warming, and nature vs. nurture. It examines the interrelations of the major actors in constructing and explaining uncertainty: scientists, journalists, scholars, and the larger public. Part 1 examines participants in the scientific uncertainty arena and how the major actors react to, cope...Show more

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ISBN

9780805827286

Publisher

L. Erlbaum Associates

Published year

1999

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

Format

Paperback

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