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For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues—both traditional and nonconventional—social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews, and detailed case studies, this remarkable volume clearly sets the standard for the field. It does nothing less than establish itself as the benchmark, one that will carry the field well into the next century.
Science and the Media
Science and the Media
“SCIENCE and the media” can mean many things. Most commonly in the scholarly literature, it has meant science journalism—that is, nonfiction portrayals of science in newspapers, magazines, books, and television news and documentary shows. (Radio is hardly ever mentioned.) Only rarely has the science and media literature moved beyond these formats to include other media in which nonfiction information about science can be presented, such as museums and plays; nor has scholarship on science and the media connected well with research on the portrayals of science in literature or dramatic film and television.
The distinctions between fiction and nonfiction, or between print and broadcast, may have meaning for scientists, journalists, writers—and academic researchers. But the goal of ...
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