The fifteen chapters in this volume deal with science, medicine, technology, disaster, and hazard coverage by the media from the perspectives of sociology, psychology, philosophy, and journalism. Written for the active reader who is concerned about the issues and willing to begin the work necessary to bring about change, the volume suggests ways in which journalists, policy makers, and citizens can work to correct some of the more pervasive problems of media coverage of science. In her foreword, Dorothy Nelkin examines the images of science and technology that are conveyed through the...
The fifteen chapters in this volume deal with science, medicine, technology, disaster, and hazard coverage by the media from the perspectives of so...
The Moral Media is designed to provide readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. It serves as a beginning on which other scholars - and professionals who are concerned with quality of ethical decision making in the media - can build. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the thinking of other professionals. the DIT and place it within the larger history of three fields:...
The Moral Media is designed to provide readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. It serves a...
This bio-bibliography, devoted to the life and career of a United States Senator, is one of a few works of its kind. The book is divided into two sections. It begins with a biographical sketch, the first complete study to be published. The second section is an annotated bibliography of works by and about Morse and citations for his more significant Congressional speeches.
This bio-bibliography, devoted to the life and career of a United States Senator, is one of a few works of its kind. The book is divided into two s...
This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the press reported about Bhopal and examines journalism's subsequent influence on public perceptions about technological safety. . . . It is an excellent addition to university collections in science writing, journalism criticism, and mass media research and should be useful to undergraduates at all levels. "Choice"
More than two years after the Bhopal disaster, fatalities and illnesses in this central Indian city continue to be reported by U.S....
This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the pr...
