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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 &
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
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."
"For scholars interested in science communication, the handbook is
a valuable tool for understanding both emerging and established
topics. For others, it is a sign that the science of science
communication has become an academic field in its own right." --
Kristian H. Nielsen, Metascience
"This handbook poses a fundamental question about psychology: Where
does psychology fit within interdisciplinary research today?
Science communication is not a field that has previously come under
the umbrella of psychology, but the material in this book, and the
way it is presented, will be of interest to a broad range of
psychologists." -- Phil Loring, The Psychologist
"The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication is a
comprehensive and much-needed resource for anyone concerned with
the faithful and effective communication of science. It ably
accomplishes the difficult feat of portraying the current state of
understanding on this very broad topic while simultaneously
presenting concise recommendations for future scholarship and
practice. Perhaps most importantly, the Handbook should put to rest
the
notion that there is insufficient knowledge available to improve
efforts to engage the many 'publics' on scientific topics."
--Jonathan F. Fanton, President, American Academy of Arts &
Sciences
"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." --Marcia K. McNutt, President, National Academy
of Sciences
"The volume advances an understanding of the public as capable of
recognising appropriate expertise, proficient at making the mental
shortcuts that are necessary in a media-saturated world, aware of
the need to consider wider cultural values in reaching decisions on
science-relevant issues and overwhelmingly supportive of science
and accepting of science-based advice. Many of the chapters show
how controversies around public policy tend not to be reducible
to
matters of science and note that scientists also rely on
heuristics, not just logical deliberation, when making decisions."
--Public Understanding of Science Blog
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