Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.

List of contents

• Introduction: Why Science Communication?


• Editors - Dan Kahan, Dietram Scheufele, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson


• Part I: The Science of Communicating science


• 1. The Need for a Science of Science Communication: Communicating Science's Values and Norms


• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center - University of Pennsylvania


• 2. Overview of the Science of Science Communication


• Heather Akin - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Dietram Scheufele - John E. Ross Professor of Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor - University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Morgridge Institute for Research


• 3. On the Sources of Ordinary Science Knowledge and Extraordinary Science Ignorance


• Dan Kahan - Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology - Yale University


• 4. How Changing Media Structures Are Affecting Science News Coverage


• Mike S. Schäfer - Professor of Science Communication - University of Zürich, Switzerland


• 5. What the Public Thinks and Knows about Science: And Why It Matters


• William Hallman - Professor of Human Ecology - Rutgers University


• 6. Scientific Controversies: Can the Science of Science Communication Provide Management Guidance or only Analysis?


• Bruce Lewenstein - Professor of Science Communication - Cornell University


• 7. A Recap: The Science of Communicating Science


• Joseph Hilgard - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Nan Li - Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and Communications - Texas Tech University


• part II: IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO SCIENCE FEATURED in Attacks on science


• 8. Science as "Broken" vs. Science as "Self-Correcting": How Retractions and Peer-Review Problems are Exploited to Attack Science


• Joseph Hilgard - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center - University of Pennsylvania


• 9. Publication Bias in Science: What is it, Why is it Problematic, and How Can It Be Addressed?


• Andrew Brown - Scientist, Nutrition and Obesity Research Center and Office of Energetics - University of Alabama at Birmingham


• Tapan Mehta - Assistant Professor in Health Services Administration and Associate Scientist, Nutrition Obesity Research Center - University of Alabama at Birmingham


• David Allison - Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean for Science, and Director, Office of Energetics - University of Alabama at Birmingham


• 10. Statistical Biases in Science Communication: What We Know About Them and How They Can Be Addressed


• John Ioannidis - C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, and Director, Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) - Stanford University


• 11. Is there a Hype Problem in Science? If So, How is it Addressed?


• Peter Weingart - Professor Emeritus and former Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research - University of Bielefeld, Germany


• 12. Is there a Retraction Problem? And, If So, What Do We Know About How It Is and Can Be Addressed?


• Adam Marcus - Co-Founder - Retraction Watch; Managing Editor - Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News and Anesthesiology News


• Ivan Oransky - Co-Founder - Retraction Watch; Vice President and Global Editorial Director - MedPage Today


• 13. A Recap: Identifying and Overcoming Challenges to Science Featured in Attacks on Science


• Joseph Hilgard - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• PART III: SCIENCE COMUNICATION IN ACTION: FAILURES and SUCCESSES


• 14. A Comparative Study of Communication about Food Safety Before, During and After the "Mad Cow" Crisis


• Matteo Ferrari - Assistant Professor of Private Law - University of Trento, Italy


• 15. Cross-National Comparative Communication and Deliberation about the Risks of Nanotechnologies


• Nick Pidgeon - Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director, Understanding Risk Research Group - Cardiff University, Wales


• Barbara Herr Harthorn - Professor of Anthropology, Director, NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society, and group leader, NSF/EPA UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology - University of California, Santa Barbara


• Terre Satterfield -Professor of Culture, Risk and the Environment and Director, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability - University of British Columbia, Canada


• Christina Demski - Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology and Research Associate, Understanding Risk Research Group - Cardiff University, Wales


• 16. Communications about Biotechnologies and GMOs across Europe


• Heinz Bonfadelli - Professor Emeritus - University of Zürich, Switzerland


• 17. A Tale of Two Vaccines - and their Science Communication Environments


• Dan Kahan - Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology - Yale University


• Asheley Landrum - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• 18. A Recap: Science Communication in Action


• Heather Akin - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• PART IV: THE ROLES OF ELITE INTERMEDIARIES IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE


• 19. Science Communication at Scientific Institutions


• Tiffany Lohwater - Director of Meetings and Public Engagement - American Association for the Advancement of Science


• Martin Storksdieck - Professor and Director, Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning - Oregon State University


• 20. The Role of Scholarly Presses and Journals


• Barbara Kline Pope - Executive Director for Communications - The National Academies; Executive Director - National Academies Press


• Elizabeth Marincola - Chief Executive Officer - Public Library of Science (PLOS)


• 21. The Role of Governmental Organizations in Communicating About Regulating Science


• Jeffery Morris - National Program Director for Nanotechnology - Environmental Protection Agency


• 22. Science Communication and Museums' Changing Roles


• Victoria Cain - Assistant Professor of History - Northeastern University


• Karen Rader - Associate Professor of History - Virginia Commonwealth University


• 23. The Role of Funding Organizations: Foundations


• Elizabeth Good Christopherson - President and Chief Executive Officer - Rita Allen Foundation


• 24. Promoting Popular Understanding of Science and Health through Social Networks


• Brian Southwell - Director, Center for Communication Science - RTI International; Adjunct Professor (Energy Initiative) - Duke University; Research Professor (Media and Journalism) and Adjunct Associate Professor (Health Behavior) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


• 25. Designing Public Deliberation at the Intersection of Science and Public Policy


• John Gastil - Head and Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science - Pennsylvania State University


• 26. Translating Science into Policy and Legislation: Evidence-informed Policy Making


• Jason Gallo - Science and Technology Policy Analyst - Science and Technology Policy Institute


• 27. A Recap: The Role of Intermediaries in Communicating Science: A Synthesis


• Asheley Landrum - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• part V: The Role, Power, and Peril of media for the communication of Science


• 28. The (Changing) Nature of Scientist-Media Interactions: A Cross National Analysis


• Sara Yeo - Assistant Professor of Communication - University of Utah


• Dominique Brossard - Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication - University of Wisconsin-Madison


• 29. New Models of Knowledge-Based Journalism


• Matthew Nisbet - Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs - Northeastern University


• Declan Fahy - Professor of Communication - Dublin City University


• 30. Citizens Making Sense of Science Issues: Supply and Demand Factors for Science News and Information in the Digital Age


• Michael Xenos - CAPs Professor and Department Chair, Department of Communication Arts - University of Wisconsin-Madison


• 31. The Changing Popular Images of Science


• David Kirby - Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Studies - University of Manchester, England


• 32. What Do We Know About the Entertainment Industry's Portrayal of Science? How Does It Affect Public Attitudes Toward Science?


• James Shanahan - Professor and Dean, Media School - Indiana University


• 33. How Narrative Functions in Entertainment to Communicate Science


• Martin Kaplan - Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society and Director, Norman Lear Center - University of Southern California


• Michael Dahlstrom - Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication Iowa State University


• 34. Assumptions about Science in Satirical News and Late Night Comedy


• Lauren Feldman - Associate Professor of Communication and Information - Rutgers University


• 35. A Recap: The Role, Power, and Peril of Media for the Communication of Science


• Nan Li - Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and Communications - Texas Tech University


• Robert Lull - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Part VI: Challenges in Communicating Science in a Polarized EnvironmenT


• 36. Countering False Beliefs: An Analysis of the Evidence and Recommendations of Best Practices for the Retraction and Correction of Scientific Misinformation


• Man-pui Sally Chan - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


• Christopher Jones - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-16) - University of Pennsylvania


• Dolores Albarracin - Professor of Psychology and Business - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


• 37. Using Frames to Make Scientific Communication More Effective


• James Druckman - Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty


• Fellow, Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University


• Arthur Lupia - Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science - University of Michigan


• 38. Philosophical Impediments to Citizens' Use of Science


• Jonathan Baron - Professor of Psychology - University of Pennsylvania.


• 39. Overcoming Confirmation and Blind Spot Bias When Communicating Science


• Kate Kenski - Associate Professor of Communication and Government and Public Policy - University of Arizona


• 40. Understanding and Overcoming Selective Exposure and Judgement When Communicating About Science


• Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud - Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Director of Research, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life - University of Texas at Austin


• 41. Overcoming Innumeracy and the Use of Heuristics When Communicating Science


• Ellen Peters - Professor of Psychology and Director, Behavioral Decision Making Initiative - Ohio State University


• 42. Overcoming Biases in Processing of Time Series Data about Climate


• Bruce Hardy - Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication - Temple University


• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center - University of Pennsylvania


• 43. Understanding and Overcoming Fear of the Unnatural in Discussion of GMOs


• Robert Lull - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Dietram Scheufele - John E. Ross Professor of Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor - University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Morgridge Institute for Research


• 44. Protecting or Polluting the Science Communication Environment? The Case of Childhood Vaccines


• Dan Kahan - Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology - Yale University


• 45. Overcoming False Causal Attribution: Debunking the MMR-Autism Association


• Nan Li - Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and Communications - Texas Tech University


• Talia Stroud - Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Director of Research, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life - University of Texas at Austin


• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication - Annenberg School for Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center - University of Pennsylvania


• 46. Overcoming the Challenges of Communicating Uncertainty Across National Contexts


• Michael Siegrist - Professor of Consumer Behavior and Head of Institute for Environmental Decisions - ETH Zürich, Switzerland


• Christina Hartmann - Professor of Consumer Behavior, Department of Health Sciences and Technology - ETH Zürich, Switzerland


• 47. A Recap: Heuristics, Biases, Values and Other Challenges to Communicating Science


• Heather Akin - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Asheley Landrum - Annenberg Public Policy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Science of Science of Communication - University of Pennsylvania


• Conclusion: On the Horizon: The Changing Science Communication Environment


• Editors - Dietram Scheufele, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, and Dan Kahan


• Index

About the author

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center. The author of four award winning Oxford University Press books on political and press communications, she is co-founder of FactCheck.org, which researches the veracity of claims made by political players. Its SciCheck feature was launched in 2015 to expose the misuse of scientific evidence in political discourse.

Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School. He is a member of the Cultural Cognition Project, an interdisciplinary team of scholars who use empirical methods to examine the impact of group values on perceptions of risk and science communication.

Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. His research deals with the interface of media, policy, and public opinion. Scheufele has co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences, and vice-chaired the recent Academies' consensus report on "Communicating science effectively: A research agenda."

Summary

On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.

Additional text

Familiarity with the discoveries, norms, and ways of knowing of science should not be limited to scientists. By applying the scientific method itself to scientific communication, Jamieson, Kahan, and Scheufele improve the effectiveness with which researchers disseminate their findings and demystify science for broad audiences.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kathleen Hall (Elizabeth Ware Packard Pr Jamieson
• Assisted by: Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Editor), Jamieson Kathleen Hall (Editor), Dan Kahan (Editor), Kahan Dan M. (Editor), Dietram A. Scheufele (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780190497620
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049762-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Oxford Library of Psychology; Oxford Library of Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Science, Psychology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Social, group or collective psychology