Science as Ideology [microform]: the Problem of Science and the Media Reconsidered
- ISBN-10
- 0315460563
- ISBN-13
- 9780315460560
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University
- Author
- Christopher Dornan
Description
"This study seeks to undertake an analysis of the topic of 'science and the media' as it has been constituted in academic discourse since the end of the Second World War. It finds that concern has polarized in two distinct camps: The larger, participant in the traditional project of North American media studies, blames the press for what it perceives as a widespread and deleterious "scientific illiteracy" on the part of the laity. The more recent, indebted to critical developments in social theory, philosophy of science, and the study of mass communication, works to expose the assumptions on which press coverage of science has been based and the interests which have benefited."--
