Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication

P Davis - 2018 - repository.isls.org
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In this paper I study scientists, reporters, and news readers as they produce and/or interpret
scientific texts. Imagining all of these actors as science learners allows me to compare
across their individual understandings to follow ideas through the pathways of science
communication. I provide a case study of how one scientist's understandings causes
difficulties for a reporter and two news readers. This case problematizes popular
assumptions about the causes of public misunderstandings of science.
In this paper I study scientists, reporters, and news readers as they produce and/or interpret scientific texts. Imagining all of these actors as science learners allows me to compare across their individual understandings to follow ideas through the pathways of science communication. I provide a case study of how one scientist's understandings causes difficulties for a reporter and two news readers. This case problematizes popular assumptions about the causes of public misunderstandings of science.
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