Science journalism: the standardisation of information from the press to the internet

Olvera‐Lobo, María‐Dolores; López, Lourdes Bermelló

doi:10.22323/2.14030401

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“…Meanwhile, there has been a long standing criticism of the lack of complexity within science journalism writing. Accompanying this complaint have been calls for more contextualization of science news reporting (Dentzer, 2009; Olvera-Lobo and López-Pérez, 2015; Secko et al, 2013). Overall, complexity is exacerbated by the fact that present day journalists have to compete with new media practitioners such as bloggers and citizen journalists, who now produce first person accounts of news events and go as far as to assume some functions of mainstream journalism practice (Compton and Benedetti, 2010; Hermida, 2010; Urban and Schweiger, 2014).…”

Section: The Complexity Of News Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preaching to the choir? An analysis of newspaper readability vis-a-vis public literacy

Wasike

2016

Journalism

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This study examined the interplay among readability, literacy, story type, and demographics in regard to the complexity of local newspaper content. Literacy data were derived from the US Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey and readability data were derived from a content analysis of a random sample of 400 county level newspaper articles in Texas. Readability was measured dually by the Flesch–Kincaid grade reading level and the Flesch reading ease scale. On average, the news articles were written at an 11.63 grade level and a 47.78 ease level. With a 77 percent high school attainment level among residents in the population under study, these readability levels mean that the news articles were written at a level marginally comprehensible to a majority of potential readers. Additionally, business news was written at a 12.32 grade level making it even less comprehensible to a majority of potential readers. Hard news was the second most complex story type with an 11.98 grade level. Overall, residents age 65 and over had the lowest comprehension threshold, despite being the most likely to read newspapers on a daily basis. The author also discusses the implications to local news readability.

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Section: The Complexity Of News Contentmentioning

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Preaching to the choir? An analysis of newspaper readability vis-a-vis public literacy

Wasike

2016

Journalism

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“…Teniendo en consideración que las audiencias se muestran cada vez más deseosas de conocer los avances científicos (Harmatiy, 2021), periodistas y medios exploran las mejores plataformas parar acceder a esa información y generar un juicio crítico sobre temas de ciencia y tecnología (Olvera-Lobo y López-Pérez, 2015). El ecosistema digital se ha erigido así en una herramienta imprescindible para que ese conocimiento se disemine cada vez más a través de diversos canales (López Duque y Tejedor, 2020).…”

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Las redes sociales como vehículo del periodismo científico: 'Scoping Review'

Martin-Neira¹,

Trillo-Domínguez²,

Olvera‐Lobo³

2023

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The disinformation crisis that has resulted from the consolidation of the Internet and the explosion of social networks has highlighted the importance of scientific journalism to communicate rigorous, contrasted and quality content to society. In this context, both professionally and academically level, the focus is on the discipline and, increasingly, on the role of social networks as a vehicle for promoting scientific dissemination content. This study analyzes, using the scoping review technique, the articles published on science journalism and social networks in the last five years (2017 and 2021) in order to identify research topics and trends, concerns and challenges. The study reveals the influence that social networks are having on current science journalism, highlighting their role as a channel for dissemination and interaction with audiences and engagement with new audiences. In addition to the prominence given to health, environmental and data verification issues. It also warns of the challenge for professionals to improve their performance in order to achieve effective communication through innovative channels and generate visual and interactive content.

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“…One group consisted of students who held Master's degrees in Pre-school and Primary School Education, namely, future teachers, who can transmit their point of view or focus regarding these therapies (Doménech, De Pro Bueno & Solbes, 2016). The other consisted of students with journalism degrees, who are likely to become social communicators and, largely, disseminators of values and principles related to scientific knowledge (Brossard & Scheufele, 2013;Olvera-Lobo & López-Pérez, 2015;Stocking & Holstein, 2009). The students provided data and perceptions of great interest with regard to the aims of the study.…”

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Which has more influence on perception of pseudo-therapies: the media’s information, friends or acquaintances opinion, or educational background?

Moreno-Castro¹,

Domenech²,

Puig³

2019

Communication & Society

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This study analyses the discourses of Education and Journalism students in order to understand their perception of complementary and alternative therapies. Likewise, to know if educational background or friends or acquaintances opinion has a more considerable influence on their knowledge and use of these socially controversial techniques than the media. This study uses qualitative research methods based upon 12 discussion groups with 102 participants. Once transcriptions were completed, discourse analysis was conducted using linguistic corpus software (T-LAB. 9.1.). In the design of the research, these students were selected for their social involvement in their future careers, such as when they are going to address or analyse scientific controversies, both in classrooms and media, or evidence-based medicine. Also, to complement the results of the qualitative study, and thus obtain more robust conclusions, this work compares the data collected in discussion groups, with results of a survey (quantitative research) administered to 718 students of Education, Journalism, Medicine and Nursing. One hand, the focus groups revealed that the information channels through which students learned about these therapies were by word of mouth and through networks of family members, friends and acquaintances and their digital equivalents, social networks and blogs. In all the discussion groups, a lack of scientific knowledge was detected. Second hand, survey results showed that the Education and Nursing students presented a higher level of acceptance of alternative therapies compared with the Medicine and Journalism students, who were the most unaccepting.

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Science journalism: the standardisation of information from the press to the internet

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Preaching to the choir? An analysis of newspaper readability vis-a-vis public literacy

Preaching to the choir? An analysis of newspaper readability vis-a-vis public literacy

Las redes sociales como vehículo del periodismo científico: 'Scoping Review'

Which has more influence on perception of pseudo-therapies: the media’s information, friends or acquaintances opinion, or educational background?

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