Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02376
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Pages 73-96 in Louise Phillips, Anabella Carvalho and Julie Doyle (eds.), Citizen voices: performing public participation in science and environmental communication. Intellect, Bristol, UK. 231 pages.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19621
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Pages 23-41 in Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds.), Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. 277 pages.
Analyzed the content of four major U.S. newspapers, 1992 through 2001, in terms of their coverage of conflicts of interest in science. Types of conflict of interest: financial, professional and personal. Examples include the relationship between research institutions and the tobacco industry.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29915
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Pages 35-49 in Richard Holliman, Jeff Thomas, Sam Smidt, Eileen Scanlon and Elizabeth Whitelegg (eds.), Practising science communication in the information age: theorizing professional practices. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 238 pages.
