NARRATIVE/ SCIENCE

"Weaving stories, explaining science – scientists and journalists on the air"

Coordinatore	KING'S COLLEGE LONDON    more  Organization address address: Strand city: LONDON postcode: WC2R 2LS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paul Cognome: Labbett Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7848 8184
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	231˙283 €
EC contributo	231˙283 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-11-01   -   2015-10-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KING'S COLLEGE LONDON  Organization address address: Strand city: LONDON postcode: WC2R 2LS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paul Cognome: Labbett Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7848 8184	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	231˙283.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The communication of scientific results in the mainstream media takes place in a highly contested terrain, reflecting conflicting professional norms, cultural values and levels of scientific understanding between scientists and journalists. Yet rather than focusing on this highly documented “science-media” gap we explore the interaction between scientists and journalists and its role in shaping science news. Specifically, this study will focus on the narrative strategies they exploit making abstract and technical issues concrete. Reflecting prevalent explanatory and argumentative norms, the skilful use of narrative elements is widely promoted in explaining science to general audiences. Integrating objective explanations with a plot, a leading character, and dramatic mystery is seen as supporting the communication of scientific discoveries and in exposing the contexts in which these were made. Exploiting recently developed content, discourse and conversation analysis interviews with scientists will be examined for the types of stories narrated, scientists and hosts’ roles in shaping the stories produced and their explanatory and argumentative roles regarding the scientific topic reported. The study will be based on a well-defined corpus of interviews with scientists drawn from key agenda-setting the current affair talk shows broadcasted in Israel and Britain. While news broadcasts serve as a primary source concerning development in science and technology science reporting in these format won little scholarly attention. Seeking to capture the interactional communicative events by which scientists and journalists co-author narratives and explanations should offer novel insights concerning their respective roles in shaping science news more broadly. This study’s focus on scientific explanations in the news media could strongly inform science communication policies and practices currently discussed and implemented.'