Precision and rhetoric in media reporting about contamination in farmed salmon

Science Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-513

  Amberg, Shannon M ^a   Hall, Troy E ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

information precision; public understanding of science; risk communication; science communication; science journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651112941     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547009357599     Document Type: Article

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