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- Lundin, Susanne
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Creating identity with biotechnology: the xenotransplanted body as the norm
- 2002
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 11:4, s. 333-345
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of todays great issues is how an advanced medical technology like xenotransplantation should be applied. It is well known that medicine brings not only potential but also risk. On the cultural level, xenotransplantations are equally complicated; they arouse thoughts about whether our outlook on humanity will be influenced now that modern techniques can correct our defective bodies. The article asks whether xenotransplantation creates new cultural meanings. That is, how do newly emerging ideas of a technologically created normality raise a set of moral questions about nature and culture, mind and body? The discussion is based on interview studies with patients suffering from diabetes and Parkinsons disease. The former have been given porcine islets, while the others have had human fetal cells transplanted into the brain; the latter are also potential recipients of xenotransplants. This empirical material becomes the basis for discussing how diseases can lead to a crisis in which it is essential - on a concrete, everyday level - to find strategies for dealing with the consequences. In this process of identity and normalization, advanced biomedicine is an important factor.
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- Ancillotti, Mirko, 1981-, et al.
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Uncritical and unbalanced coverage of synthetic biology in the Nordic press
- 2017
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : Sage Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 26:2, s. 235-250
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Synthetic biology will probably have a high impact on a variety of fields, such as healthcare, environment, biofuels, agriculture, and so on. A driving theme in European research policy is the importance of maintaining public legitimacy and support. Media can influence public attitudes and are therefore an important object of study. Through qualitative content analysis, this study investigates the press coverage of synthetic biology in the major Nordic countries between 2009 and 2014. The press coverage was found to be event-driven and there were striking similarities between countries when it comes to framing, language use, and treated themes. Reporters showed a marked dependence on their sources, mainly scientists and stakeholders, who thus drives the media agenda. The media portrayal was very positive, with an optimistic look at future benefits and very little discussion of possible risks.
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- Asplund, Therese
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Natural versus anthropogenic climate change: Swedish farmers joint construction of climate perceptions
- 2016
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 25:5, s. 560-575
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions, this study offers an audience-specific departure point. This article analyses how Swedish farmers perceive climate change and how they jointly shape their understandings. The agricultural sector is of special interest because it both contributes to and is directly affected by climate change. Through focus group discussions with Swedish farmers, this study finds that (1) farmers relate to and understand climate change through their own experiences, (2) climate change is understood either as a natural process subject to little or no human influence or as anthropogenic and (3) various communication tools contribute to the formation of natural and anthropogenic climate change frames. The article ends by discussing frame resonance and frame clash in public understanding of climate change and by comparing potential similarities and differences in how various segments of the public make sense of climate change.
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-
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How does background affect attitudes to socioscientific issues in Taiwan?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : Sage. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 20:6, s. 722-732
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based upon the goal of scientific literacy and the importance of socioscientific issues (SSIs), the purpose of this study was to investigate the Taiwanese public’s awareness of, inclinations to buy/use, and their attitudes towards three attributes of SSIs including genetically modified food (GM food), organic food, and DDT and malaria (DDT). Data from a total of 865 participants across ten populations (six different educational levels and four different vocations) were validated and analyzed. The results revealed that the awareness regarding GM food and DDT increased with the levels of education. The inclinations to buy/use and the attitudes towards the three SSIs, were not related to levels of education, vocation or gender, but were related to attributes of the SSIs. The implications for education and policy development are discussed.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961
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Green metacycles of attention: Reassessing the attention cycles of environmental news reporting 1961–2010
- 2013
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 22:4, s. 495-512
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the longitudinal development of environmental news reporting in Swedish television over an extended period of time, 1961–2010. It returns to Anthony Downs’s (1972) seminal article on issue attention cycles when analyzing the cyclic nature of environmental news reporting and advances the issue attention cycle framework by introducing the concept of metacycles as it explores the trajectory of environmental news reporting. Metacycles refers to the major fluctuations in attention to the entire domain of environmental issues over time, while issue cycles refer to the oscillation in attention pertaining to single issues. The article analyzes the pattern of the metacycles, and investigates how cycles of attention to individual issues contribute to the shaping of the environmental metacycles in the news.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach
- 2021
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 30:5, s. 535-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. With the rapid growth of social media, YouTube has become an influential social media platform providing publics with expert health knowledge. This article explores how antimicrobial resistance is communicated on YouTube. Drawing on qualitative media analyses of the most viewed YouTube videos 2016–2020, we identify seven different genres and two main storytelling approaches, personalized and fictionalized storytelling, used to make sense of antimicrobial resistance and its complexities. The study contributes new knowledge about YouTube as a platform for health communication and the types of videos about antimicrobial resistance that gets most traffic. This is useful, not the least for public health experts working to improve communication strategies that target hard-to-reach media publics.
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- Engdahl, Emma, 1969-, et al.
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Risk, communication and trust : towards an emotional understanding of trust
- 2014
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : Sage Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 23:6, s. 703-717
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The experience of public distrust towards science-based risk assessments and regulatory proposals have resulted in proposals for context-sensitive risk communication, transparency in decision processes, public inclusion in regulatory work and new contracts between science and citizens. This is the point of departure for this study; however, rather than focusing on strategies to achieve public trust, this study focuses on the very meaning of trust, that is, its prerequisites and character. By drawing on recent discussions in science and technology studies and social psychology, a perspective is elaborated upon that concerns the relational and emotional characteristics of trust. It is argued that trust is a modality of action motivated by the ego’s emotional apprehension of a certain form of double-confidence, that is, the ego’s confidence in the outer world or the future actions of the alter ego and the ego’s confidence in its own understanding and judgment of the outer world or the alter ego. This means that trust does not develop through information and the uptake of knowledge but through active involvement and sense-making.
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- Glogger, Isabella, 1981, et al.
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Bridging the gap: Introducing a socio-cultural dimension to explain beliefs about man-made threats
- 2022
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 31:8, s. 1063-1078
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The belief gap hypothesis focuses on why individuals differ in beliefs about the causes and consequences of issues despite expert consensus. Offering ideological rationalization and media use as an explanation for diverting beliefs, it, so far, has focused on ideological priors that describe traditional socio-economic cleavages—even if scientific and environmental issues go beyond monetary questions. In this study, we aim to counter this shortcoming by introducing a socio-cultural dimension of ideology to research on the belief gap hypothesis. Comparing two issues of man-made threats—climate change and antimicrobial resistance—and emphasizing more strongly the role of media use for belief gaps, we find that a socio-cultural dimension of ideology serves as a better predictor for diverting beliefs about climate change but not for antimicrobial resistance. In contrast to left-leaning media, using right-leaning media outlets widens climate change belief gaps.
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- Gunnarsson, Lena, 1978-, et al.
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On the verge between the scientific and the alternative : Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device
- 2023
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Ingår i: Public Understanding of Science. - : Sage Publications. - 0963-6625 .- 1361-6609. ; 32:2, s. 175-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article intervenes in discussions on lay knowledge production about health in the Internet era, through the case of a group of women claiming that their use of copper intrauterine devices has led to systemic side effects. Based on online group interviews and written essays, we examine how women embracing these knowledge claims navigate various sources of information, focusing on the role of scientificity in these epistemic negotiations. The women were found to be involved in an active, scientifically oriented process of knowledge formation, which we refer to as a collective labour of scientific patchworking. Meanwhile, due to a perceived lack of scientifically based expertise on their condition, the women reported having little choice but turn to resources with weaker scientific foothold. We argue that the tendency to portray these women’s claims as unscientific simplifies the nature of lay knowledge production, potentially deepening divides between medical authorities and the public.
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