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

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 ca...

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Main Author: Davis, Pryce
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52279/
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description 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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spelling nottingham-522792020-05-04T19:42:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52279/ Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication Davis, Pryce 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. 2018-06-24 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Davis, Pryce (2018) Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication. In: 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 23-27 June 2018, London, UK.
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Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
title Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
title_full Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
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title_full_unstemmed Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
title_short Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
title_sort transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication
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