Biotechnology in the Japanese media: Comparative analysis of newspaper articles on genetic engineering in Japan and Europe

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-23

  Hibino, Aiko ^a,b   Nagata, Motohiko ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Collective symbolic coping; Cross cultural comparison; Media analysis; Media framing of biotechnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644984880     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2006.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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