Popularizing Biotechnology: The Influence of Issue Definition

Plein, L. Christopher

doi:10.1177/016224399101600403

Cited by 48 publications

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“…The researchers noted few differences between U.S. and European biotechnology media coverage (Gaskell et al 1999). Using a more qualitative method, Plein (1991) described the evolution of biotechnology as a political issue and said that coverage seemed to emphasize economic opportunity alongside efforts to discredit opposition views.…”

Section: Biotechnology and The Mediamentioning

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Media Attention and Exposure in Relation to Support for Agricultural Biotechnology

Besley

Shanahan

2005

Science Communication

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This article shows that attention to television news, science television, and entertainment television are all significantly related to a composite measure of agricultural biotechnology support after controlling for demographics as well as self-reported biotechnology awareness, trust in institutions, and perceived role of science. These findings contradict previous commentary that suggested that no measurable relationship exists between communication variables and biotechnology support. It is also hypothesized that some biotechnology support may be an outcome of heuristic processing by survey respondents.

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Section: Biotechnology and The Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Attention and Exposure in Relation to Support for Agricultural Biotechnology

Besley

Shanahan

2005

Science Communication

103

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“…News coverage has been dominated by industrial-commercial interests and scientists (Nisbet and Lewenstein 2002;Plein 1991;Priest 2001b). Other dominant sources have been government agencies as well as scientists, who were most often associated with frames of progress (Nisbet and Lewenstein 2002;Ten Eyck, Thompson, and Priest 2001).…”

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Localized Debates of Agricultural Biotechnology in Community Newspapers: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Media Frames and Sources

Crawley

2007

Science Communication

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This research is a quantitative content analysis of agricultural biotechnology coverage appearing in a collection of community newspapers in Northern California and Missouri between 1992 and 2004. It examines the similarities and differences in news media frames used to focus the debate at the local level, and evaluates the frequency and range of dominant political and social actors as news sources. Newspaper coverage in some community newspapers frames the story in more complex and diverse ways and includes a wider range of voices than has been reported in studies of coverage in the national, elite press. Oppositional viewpoints exist in some local newspapers, perhaps more so than in national news.

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“…This process was demonstrated early on in research on public communication about genetics (Plein, 1991). More recently, Philo and Happer (2013) have demonstrated similar proliferation-of-voices trends in climate change reporting, while also noting growing evidence (Painter, 2011 andPainter and Ashe, 2012) What is argued here , is that research needs to go significantly further to un-cover and to understand how balances/biases in media coverage of science result not only from journalistic practices and values, but that these practices/values are also skilfully manipulated/exploited by sources keen to promote their particular views.…”

Section: Accuracy In News Journalism Studiesmentioning

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The changing uses of accuracy in science communication

Hansen

2016

Public Underst Sci

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Tracing its historical trajectories, this article explores the preoccupation with accuracy in science communication research and explores the resurgence in the present century of concerns about accuracy, balance and impartiality in public communication of science. It is argued that many of the original insights from news and journalism research are still relevant and important if re-formulated in constructionist terms about voice, access and claimsmaking, and asking: in whose interest? Key to this is also the recognition of a radically changing -technologically, economically and professionally -media and communications environment, with implications for science journalism and a very different dynamic regarding the range and type of actors involved in discursively constructing opinions and information about controversial science and expertise. The article concludes with proposals for future emphases and directions in research broadly concerned with accuracy in science communication.

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Popularizing Biotechnology: The Influence of Issue Definition

Cited by 48 publications

References 5 publications

Media Attention and Exposure in Relation to Support for Agricultural Biotechnology

Media Attention and Exposure in Relation to Support for Agricultural Biotechnology

Localized Debates of Agricultural Biotechnology in Community Newspapers: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Media Frames and Sources

The changing uses of accuracy in science communication

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