Insights on Science Journalism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mellor, Felicity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, this collection critically examines the features characterising science journalism, paying special attention to the points of tension that science journalists navigate in their work today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040003824
• Artikelnr.: 69854461

Autorenporträt

Felicity Mellor is Director of Science Communication Unit at Imperial College London, UK, where she oversees the Unit's long-running masters programmes in science communication. Her research focuses on science journalism and the ideological dimensions of media discourse about science. Her publications include two co-edited books: The Silences of Science and Science and its Publics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction: Beating the bounds of science journalism
Felicity Mellor
Part 1:
1. "Making democracy safe": The development of US science journalism in the
1920s
Susan E. Swanberg and Felicity Mellor
2. The expanding role of science journalism: BBC radio in post-war Britain
Jared Robert Keller
3. Constructing identity, protecting independence: Science journalists'
associations
Jane Gregory
Part 2:
4. Copy and paste: Churnalism in science journalism
Lars Guenther, Justin T. Schröder and Anna Tratter
5.
Irene Broer
6. The over-reliance on foreign science news in developing countries:
Causes, consequences and solutions
An Nguyen and Minh Tran
7.
Alexandra Borissova Saleh
Part 3:
8. Partial to being impartial? Debates about balance in science journalism
Felicity Mellor
9. Making science trend: the style of popular science magazines
10. Ethical compromise in narrative science journalism: The Immortal Life
of Henrietta Lacks
Lauren Kilian
Conclusion: A conversation with the future
Felicity Mellor
Index