ISBN:
9780415081900
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (242 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Scientists Meet the Media
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
""Part chronicle, part analysis and part advice manual, Social Scientists Meets the Media combines the thoughts of academics and media people to produce a vivid and valuable series of accounts that will prove of service to all academics seeking a wider audience but wary of the terra incognita they face in finding one"" Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire UniversitySocial Scientists know they are in a dilemma: their work may fall prey to sensationalism, but at the same time they don't want to be overlooked. Social Scientists Meet the Media collects the experiences of academics who have sought to publ
Description / Table of Contents:
Social scientists meet the media; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part ISocial scientists; Chapter1 If you want publicity…call an estate agent?; Chapter 2The psychologist and the media: opportunities, challenges and dangers; Chapter 3The sociologist as media football: reminiscences and preliminary reflections; Chapter 4Media vs. reality?; Chapter 5The research dissemination minefield; Chapter 6Sex and dinosaurs; Chapter 7Pornography's piggy in the middle: pressure groups, the media and research
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8Tales of expertise and experience: sociological reasoning and popular representationChapter 9Media representations of psychology: denigration and popularization, or worthy dissemination of knowledge?; Chapter 10Contributing to broadcast news analysis and current affairs documentaries: challenges and pitfalls; Part II The media; Chapter 11Productive partners-the view from radio; Chapter 12Television's dangerous liaisons; Chapter 13 From science to journalism; Social scientists and the media: an overview; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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