Week 1
T/F We can debate in class.
False
It took 10 seconds of exposure to capture a photo.
This term refers to the amount of information media can include.
Carrying capacity
What are the 4 models of science communication?
Lay expertise knowledge
Public engagement model
Deficit model
Contextual model (heuristic model).
What recent outbreak has caused more outcry by the anti-vaccine community?
Measles
What is the cause and effect of the 8 Myths of Public Understanding conducted by the Pew Research Center?
Allows scientists to gain a public understanding so it will remove the misperceptions and miscommunications.
______________ triggered the environmental movement.
Industrialism
This term refers to information flowing through channels and how the information reaches the masses.
Gatekeepers
What phenomenon is occurring when news outlets are objective in regards to covering science news?
Balance as biased
What river caught on fire and sparked the environmental movement?
Cuyahoga in Cleveland, Ohio.
What movement is aimed at bridging the gap between the public and the scientific community, in addition to aiding in greater transparency and trust between the two groups?
The public Understanding of Science Movement
This is the belief that all nature is interconnected. It also placed an emphasis on the harmony between people and nature.
Transendentalism
What were the 2 main contributions of Eadward Muybridge to science and the motion picture industry.
Capturing motion for the first time (horse galloping on track).
The "Kill Shot" with a tiger and a buffalo
Which reading discussed survey results that showed that scientists consider the public ignorant?
“Do scientists understand the public?” by Chris Mooney
On the rise of nature literature, outdoor and adventure authors wrote about the following.
Hunting and fishing
Past experiences
Tips and tricks
The 2nd myth about the Public Understanding of Science says that is is the public's responsibility to learn scientific information of policy concern. In reality, it is who's responsibility to do what?
Scientists are responsible to communicate their findings well.
____________ did not want to use resources to preserve the state of nature. _____________ wanted to use resources in a sustainable way.
Preservationists
Conservationists
These five factors can affect news coverage.
Individual level
Routines
Organizational
Extramedia
Social System
List a criticism of the contextual model.
The model still assumes that sending people a message can change their attitudes.
What are three individual factors that affect science/environmental coverage?
Cognitive heuristics - knowledge
Values of the reporter
What did Warren Weaver call attention to in regard to the AAA's concern regarding the effects that greater public engagement among scientists would have on their commitment to science?
The broader external problem of the relationship of science to society.
These 4 groups emerged in the United States during the 1940's for the purpose of communicating science to the public.
Scientific organizations
Commercial publishers
Government
Science writers
These are the four broad categories of online actor connected to the production of journalism.
Elite nations
Elite people
Personification of an event that was witnessed of an action
Negative news is more likely to be covered than positive news
What are the two aspects of the deficit model?
Public skepticism towards modern science and technology is caused primarily by a lack of adequate knowledge about science.
By providing sufficient information about modern science and technology to overcome this lack of knowledge — or 'knowledge deficit' — the public will change its mind and decide that both science and the technology that emerges from it are 'good things'.
Name the media outlets presenting information about climate change with a less balanced approach.
CNN and the New York Times