Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations / edited by Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi. - New York : Routledge, c2007. - vii, 286 p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 7 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introduction and a guidance for the reader
MARTIN W. BAUER AND MASSIMIANO BUCCHI
PARTI
The changing scenarios of science communication
2 Insects or neutrons? Science news values in interwar Britain
JEFF HUGHES
3 The rise and fall of science communication in late nineteenth
century Italy
PAOLA GOVONI
4 From journalism to corporate communication in post-war
Britain
MARTIN W BAUER AND JANE GREGORY
5 Big science, little news: Science coverage in the Italian daily
press, 1946-1997
MASSIMIANO BUCCHI AND RENATO G. MAZZOLINI
6 Growing, but foreign source dependent: Science coverage in
Latin America
LUISA MASSARANI, BRUNO BUYS, LUIS HENRIQUE AMORIM, AND FERNANDA
VENEU
7 The latest boom in popular science books
JONTURNEY
PART II
Science writing: Practitioners' perspectives
8 Scheherazade: Telling stories, not educating people
TIM RADFORD
9 The sex appeal of scientific news
LUCA CARRA
10 Science stories that cannot be told
SYLVIE COYAUD
11 Science reporting as negotiation
CHIARA PALMERINI
12 Why journalists report science as they do
BJORN FJ/ESTAD
13 How the Internet changed science journalism
BRIAN TRENCH
14 The end of science journalism
JON FRANKLIN
PART III
Public relations for science: Practitioners' perspectives
15 The Royal Society and the debate on climate change
BOB WARD
16 PR for the physics of matter: Tops...and flops
MANUELA ARATA
17 Communication by scientists or stars?
BRONWYN TERRILL
18 A PR strategy without a PR office?
CLAUDIO A. PANTAROTTO AND ARMANDA JORI
19 Public engagement of science in the private sector: A new
form of PR?
JANE GREGORY, JON AGAR, SIMON LOCK, AND SUSIE HARRIS
20 The strength of PR and the weakness of science journalism
WINFRIED GOPFERT
21 The use of scientific expertise for political PR: The 'Donana
and 'Prestige' cases in Spain
CARLOS ELIAS
PART IV
International commentary
22 United States: Focus on the audience
SHARON DUN WOODY
23 Australia: Co-ordination and professionalisation
TOSS GASCOIGNE
24 South Africa: Building capacity
MARINA JOUBERT
25 South Korea: The scandal of Professor Hwang Woo-Sok
HAK-SOO KIM
26 Japan: A boom in science news
KENJI MAKINO

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