Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era by Nguyen, An

Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780931968)

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Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era by Nguyen, An

Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era

$29.95
Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era by Nguyen, An

Science, News and the Public: Journalism for Science Democratisation in the Post-Truth Era

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Science, News and the Public explores the adverse ways in which scientific activities are reported in news media.

As the rate of scientific discoveries and developments accelerate, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and relate these events to our everyday lives. The daily activities of science are obscured behind an ever-thickening screen of corporate, civil and military secrecy, whilst the news media - the only major space left for public engagement in science development - represent it in a way that tends to drive people away from science rather than attract them to its issues and debates.

This book explores the shift in science news communication, demonstrating that journalism needs to change the way it deals with science - altering its traditional mindsets and abandoning its much-discredited techniques - if it is to maintain or regain its role as a principal force that encourages discussion and understanding of science in the public sphere.

Author: An Nguyen, Stephen McIlwaine
ISBN-10: 1780931964
ISBN-13: 9781780931968
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2025
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
By An Nguyen
By An Nguyen
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An Nguyen is Senior Lecturer and Journalism Leader in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. A former science journalist from Vietnam, he specializes in online journalism, news audiences, science journalism, citizen journalism, and journalism professionalism. He is currently writing Statistics for Journalism (2012) and working on a UKIERI-funded research project on the effect of climate change communication on young people in India.

Steve McIlwain is a recently retired Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A biologist by education, he had a successful journalism career in Australia for twenty years, culminating as News Editor at The Sun in Brisbane. Since joining academe in 1987, he has spent most of his research time on science journalism and its connection to the public.

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