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Description: |
xxii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Introduction : Why dcience vommunication? / Dan M. Kahan, Dietram A. Scheufele, Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Part 1: The science of communicating science. The need for a science of science communication : communicating science's values and norms / Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Overview of the science of science communication / Heather Akin, Dietram A. Scheufle -- On the sources of ordinary science knowledge and extraordinary science ignorance / Dan Kahan -- How changing media structures are affecting science news coverage / Mike S. Schäfer -- What the public thinks and knows about science : and why it matters / William Hallman -- Scientific controversies : can the science of science communication provide management guidance or only analysis? / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- A recap : the science of communicating science / Joseph Hilgard, Nan Li -- Part 2: Identifying and overcoming challenges to science featured in attacks on science. Science as broken versus science as "self-correcting" : how retractions and peer-review problems are exploited to attack science / Joseph Hilgard, Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Publication bias in science : what is it, why is it problematic, and how can it be addressed? / Andrew W. Brown, Tapan S. Mehta, David B. Allison -- Statistical biases in science communication : what we know about them and how they can be addressed / John P. A. Ioannidis -- Is there a hype problem in science? If so, how is it addressed? / Peter Weingart -- Is there a retraction problem? And, if so, what can we do about it? / Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky -- A recap : identifying and overcoming challenges to science featured in attacks on science / Joseph Hilgard -- Part 3: Science communication in action : failures and successes. A comparative study of communication about food safety before, during, and after the "mad cow" crisis / Matteo Ferrari -- Cross-national comparative communication and deliberation about the risks of nanotechnologies / Nick Pidgeon, Barbara Herr Harthorn, Terre Satterfield, Christina Demski -- Communications about biotechnologies and GMOs across Europe / Heinz Bonfadelli -- A tale of two vaccines : and their science communication environments / Dan Kahan, Ashley R. Landrum -- A recap : Science communication in action / Heather Akin -- Part 4: The role of elite intermediaries in communicating science. Science communication at scientific institutions / Tiffany Lohwater, Martin Storksdieck -- The role of scholarly presses and journals / Barbara Kline Pope, Elizabeth Marincola -- The role of governmental organizations in communicating about regulating science / Jeffrey Morris -- Science communication and museums' changing roles / Victoria Cain, Karen A. Rader -- The role of funding organizations : foundations / Elizabeth Good Christopherson -- Promoting popular understanding of science and health through social networks / Brian Southwell -- Designing public deliberation at the intersection of science and public policy / John Gastil -- Translating science into policy and legislation : evidence-informed policymaking / Jason Gallo -- A recap : The role of intermediaries in communicating science : a synthesis / Ashley R. Landrum -- Part 5: The role, power, and peril of media for the communication of science. The (changing) nature of scientist-media interactions : a cross-national analysis / Sara K. Yeo, Dominique Brossard -- New models of knowledge-based journalism / Matthew C. Nisbet, Declan Fahy -- Citizens making sense of science issues : supply and demand factors for science news and information in the digital age / Michael A. Xenos -- The changing popular images of science / David A. Kirby -- What do we know about the entertainment industry's portrayal of science? How does it affect public attitudes toward science? / James Shanahan -- How narrative functions in entertainment to communicate science / Martin Kaplan, Michael Dahlstrom -- Assumptions about science in satirical news and late-night comedy / Lauren Feldman -- A recap : The role, power, and peril of media for the communication of science / Nan Li, Robert B. Lull -- Part 6: Challenges in communicating science in a polarized environment. Countering false beliefs : an analysis of the evidence and recommendations of best practices for the retraction and correction of scientific misinformation / Man-pui Sally Chan, Christopher Jones, Dolores Albarracín -- Using frames to make scientific communication more effective / James N. Druckman, Arthur Lupia -- Philosophical impediments to citizens' use of science / Jonathan Baron -- Overcoming confirmation and blind spot bias when communicating science / Kate Kenski -- Understanding and overcoming selective exposure and judgment when communicating about science / Natalie Jomini Stroud -- Overcoming innumeracy and the use of heuristics when communicating science / Ellen Peters -- Overcoming biases in processing of time series data about climate / Bruce W. Hardy, Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Understanding and overcoming fear of the unnatural in discussion of GMOs / Robert B. Lull, Dietram A. Scheufele -- Protecting or polluting the science communication environment? : the case of childhood vaccines / Dan Kahan -- Overcoming false causal attribution : debunking the MMR-autism association / Nan Li, Natalie Jomini, Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Overcoming the challenges of communicating uncertainty across national contexts / Michael Siegrist, Christina Hartmann -- A recap : Heuristics, biases, values and other challenges to communicating science / Heather Akin and Ashley R. Landrum -- Conclusion : On the horizon : the changing science communication environment / Dietram A. Scheufele, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, and Dan Kahan. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: "The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing media environment in which misinformation can elicit belief without corrective context and likeminded individuals are prone to seek ideologically comforting information within their own self-constructed media enclaves. Drawing on the expertise of leading science communication scholars from six countries, The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication not only charts the media landscape - from news and entertainment to blogs and films - but also examines the powers and perils of human biases - from the disposition to seek confirming evidence to the inclination to overweight endpoints in a trend line. In the process, it draws together the best available social science on ways to communicate science while also minimizing the pernicious effects of human bias. The Handbook adds case studies exploring instances in which communication undercut or facilitated the access to scientific evidence. The range of topics addressed is wide, from genetically engineered organisms and nanotechnology to vaccination controversies and climate change. Also unique to this book is a focus on the complexities of involving the public in decision making about the uses of science, the regulations that should govern its application, and the ethical boundaries within which science should operate. The Handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers in the communication fields, particularly in science and health communication, as well as to scholars involved in research on scientific topics susceptible to distortion in partisan debate"--Provided by publisher's website. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Oxford handbook on the science of science communication. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] ISBN 9780190497637 (DLC) 2016052758 |