Modest witnessing and managing the boundaries between science and the media: A case study of breakthrough and scandal

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 634-652

  Haran, Joan ^a   Kitzinger, Jenny ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloning; Discourses of science; Media and science; Media representation; Representation of science; Science and popular culture; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350666659     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662509338324     Document Type: Article

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