Stem-Cell Spin: Covering the Hwang Affair in<i>Science</i>and<i>Nature</i>

Kjærgaard, Rikke Schmidt

doi:10.1080/09505431.2010.549822

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“…This definition and variants of it have been applied in studies of media coverage of scientific controversies and emerging technologies, such as biotechnology (Durant et al, 1998; Kohring and Matthes, 2002; Nisbet and Lewenstein, 2002), nanotechnology (Anderson et al, 2005; Donk et al, 2012; Kjærgaard, 2010), and genetics (Kjærgaard, 2011; Nisbet et al, 2003; Reis, 2008).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, a focus on the usability of frames as journalistic tools enabling the audience to comprehend complexities has emerged (Matthes, 2009; Scheufele and Tewksbury, 2007). Kjærgaard (2011), for example, defined framing as a ‘journalistic tool for making some aspects of a story more salient in people’s minds than others by employing specific narratives’ (p. 353). I follow this outline but replace narratives with Scheufele and Tewksbury’s (2007) idea of frames playing on existing cognitive schemas.…”

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The science grapevine: Influence of blog information on the online media coverage of the 2010 arsenic-based life study

Vestergaard

2016

Journalism

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Informal chatter has always been part of the scientific community, but with the emergence of online blogs these casual debates have become public. Here, I present a case study of how blog information influenced the online news frames during the December 2010 coverage of the arsenic-based life study. The results show how media frames were homogeneous and transformed abruptly from a positive ‘Gee Whiz’ frame towards a critical frame and lastly to a meta media frame over the course of a few days. From beginning to end, the blogosphere heavily influenced the news content, use of sources and spread of information between news outlets. Such rapid and uncontrollable influence of blogosphere information on online news coverage can be explained theoretically as an example of science grapevine communication.

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