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    2. Constructing and reconstructing scientific ignorance: ignorance claims in science and journalism

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Stocking, S. Holly (author) and Holstein, Lisa W. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1993-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18312
    Journal Title:
    Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization
    Journal Title Details:
    15(2) : 186-210
    Notes:
    Authors follow the notion that ignorance is not simply the absence of knowledge, but rather has its own configurations. They use examples to illustrate how interest groups and news media "appropriate and emphasize those ignorance claims that advance and protect their own particular concerns." Examples include Alar pesticide and tobacco.

    4. Environmental issues: pesticides

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    1992
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21515
    Notes:
    Pages 175-188 in Robert A. Logan, Environmental Issues for the'90s: a Handbook for Journalists. The Media Institute, Washington, D.C. 337 pages.

    5. Greens and greenbacks

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smith, Emily T. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21146
    Notes:
    Pages 157-169 in Craig L. LaMay and Everette E. Dennis, Media and the environment. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 266 pages.

    9. News media and technological risks: the case of pesticides after "Silent Spring"

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gunter, Valerie J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA: Midwest Sociological Society.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11799
    Journal Title:
    Sociological Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    46 : 671-698
    Notes:
    Online via UI electronic subscription., This article reports on a study of the relative weight of attention given by the New York Times newspaper to alarming or reassuring messages about pesticides in the immediate aftermath of Silent Spring. Three models of media coverage are examined: conflict theory, sensationalism, and problem frame. Analysis revealed a complicated pattern of coverage which first highlighted, then downplayed, risk.