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22. The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gustafson, Abel (author), Rice, Ronald E. (author), and Yale University University of California Santa Barbara
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-30
- Published:
- United States: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D11240
- Journal Title:
- Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(6) : 679-706
- Notes:
- 28 pages, via online journal, While uncertainty is central to science, many fear negative effects of communicating scientific uncertainties to the public, though research results about such effects are inconsistent. Therefore, we test the effects of four distinct uncertainty frame types (deficient, technical, scientific, consensus) on three outcomes (belief, credibility, behavioral intentions) across three science issues (climate change, GMO food labeling, machinery hazards) with an experiment using a national sample (N = 2,247) approximating U.S. census levels of age, education, and gender. We find portraying scientific findings using uncertainty frames usually does not have significant effects, with an occasional exception being small negative effects of consensus uncertainty.
23. The experience of consensus: Video as an effective medium to communicate scientific agreement on climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Goldberg, Matthew H. (author), Van der Linden, Sander (author), Ballew, Matthew T. (author), Rosenthal, Seth A. (author), Gustafson, Abel (author), Leiserowitz, Anthony (author), and Yale University University of Cambridge
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-01
- Published:
- United States: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11064
- Journal Title:
- Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(5) : 659-673
- Notes:
- 14 pages, via online journal, Research on the gateway belief model indicates that communicating the scientific consensus on global warming acts as a “gateway” to other beliefs and support for action. We test whether a video conveying the scientific consensus on global warming is more effective than a text transcript with the same information. Results show that the video was significantly more effective than the transcript in increasing people’s perception of scientific agreement. Structural equation models indicate indirect increases in the beliefs that global warming is happening and is human-caused, and in worry about global warming, which in turn predict increased global warming issue priority.
24. The “Silent Springs” of Rachel Carson: mass media and the origins of modern environmentalism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kroll, Gary (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10597
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (1): 403–420
- Notes:
- 18 pages., via online journal., This essay explores the different meanings of the 1960s’ pesticide controversy as conveyed by the multiple representations of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962). I argue that to understand the impact of Carson’s work on a heterogeneous audience in the early ’60s, we must move beyond an examination of the book, Silent Spring, to consider its other media manifestations, as a serialization for The New Yorker and as a television expose for “CBS Reports.” ´ Each conveyed a unique message stylized for the audience of that particular media. This analysis demonstrates the problems and opportunities for scholars attempting to gauge the influence of a book on the public understanding of science. This argument also suggests that to understand the transition of environmentalism from a grass-roots movement to near universal consensus, we need to examine carefully the role of media in shaping divergent messages for different audiences—a phenomenon that assisted in transforming local environmental issues into a matter of national concern.
25. Uncritical and unbalanced coverage of synthetic biology in the Nordic press
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ancillotti, Mirko (author), Holmberg, Niklas (author), Lindfelt, Mikael (author), and Eriksson, Stefan (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10594
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(2), 235–250.
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., Synthetic biology will probably have a high impact on a variety of fields, such as healthcare, environment, biofuels, agriculture, and so on. A driving theme in European research policy is the importance of maintaining public legitimacy and support. Media can influence public attitudes and are therefore an important object of study. Through qualitative content analysis, this study investigates the press coverage of synthetic biology in the major Nordic countries between 2009 and 2014. The press coverage was found to be event-driven and there were striking similarities between countries when it comes to framing, language use, and treated themes. Reporters showed a marked dependence on their sources, mainly scientists and stakeholders, who thus drives the media agenda. The media portrayal was very positive, with an optimistic look at future benefits and very little discussion of possible risks.
26. What do people want from their community forests? results of a public attitude survey in Missouri, U.S
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Treiman, Thomas (author) and Gartner, Justine (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-09
- Published:
- International Society of Arboriculture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11487
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Arboriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(5) 243-250
- Notes:
- 8 pages., via online journal., A self-administered survey of randomly selected recipients in 44 Missouri, U.S., communities found that most Missourians were very concerned about the quality of natural resources and having trees on streets and in parks. Respondents felt that Missouri was not doing well at making sure fewer trees are lost during development and at managing stormwater runoff. Residents in communities with a population of 50,000 or more, in the St. Louis and Kansas City suburbs, and in the cities of St. Louis and Kansas City show strong support for a ballot issue establishing a tree fund supported by a tax of US$5 or less. Missourians in communities with a population greater than 5,000 showed support for protecting or replacing trees during development through passage of a tree preservation ordinance. They lack basic knowledge of their community's tree program and could not correctly say whether their community was certified by The National Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree City USA. They are most likely to seek information on trees from their local garden center. The results of the survey, together with recent surveys of community forestry officials and street tree inventories, are used to make recommendations to state agencies charged with managing community forests.
27. Wind, power, and the situatedness of community engagement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kim, Hyomin (author), Cho, Seung Hee (author), and Song, Sungsoo (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10591
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(1): 38–52
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Jeju, an island in Korea, became a place to site wind turbines with an unusually high level of public acceptance. Based on interviews, media analyses, and policy research, we found that the collective memory of socio-economic deprivation enabled community engagement to matter to residents, the provincial government, and environmental activists. It was within socio-historically contextualized processes of articulating the vision of a “good” society that an actual form of community engagement, however inadequate it might appear to some, became relevant to stakeholders in a particular locality. We emphasize that community engagement in renewable energy governance does not have one but multiple and situated ways of mattering depending on local contexts.
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