Science on TV: Forms and reception of science programmes on French television

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-253

  De Cheveigné, Suzanne ^a   Véron, Eliséo ^b  

^a Universite Paris Dauphine   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

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EID: 25144479649     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/5/3/004     Document Type: Article

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29. For brevity, we sometimes 'personify' the attitude. It must be remembered though that a given person could have different attitudes to other objects, that we are describing readings of a set television texts, not people.
30. The interviewee was right: the sequence in the PET camera was pre-taped and presented as though it were live, with the reporter in the hospital 'answering' François de Closets. No-one else made the remark.
31. French and, we believe, international reporters were taken in by a false massacre in Timisoara.
32. Si 'le discours des scientifiques s'éloigne', il doit 'ramener le débat'.
33. Science et Vie Junior is the version for children (from about age 10 upwards) of Science et Vie, a popular science magazine.
34. Where the two partners have equivalent status, as opposed to a complementary exchange such as the pupil-teacher relation. See Bateson, G., 1973, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (London: Paladin Granada). Bateson considered true exchanges, but the same distinction can me applied to the relation between enunciator and addressee in the media.
35. See Véron, E., 1984, Quand lire c'est faire: l'énonciation dans le discours de la presse écrite, Sémiotique II (Paris: IREP) pp.33-56,
36. and Véron, E., 1985, L'analyse du contrat de lecture: une nouvelle méthode pour les études de positionnements de supports presse. Les Médias. Expériences, recherches actuelles, applications (Paris: IREP), pp.203-230;
37. de Cheveigné, S., and Véron, E., 1994, The Nobel on first page: the Nobel physics prizes in French newspapers. Public Understanding of Science, 3, 135.