The science journalist online: Shifting roles and emerging practices

Journalism

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 778-793

  Fahy, Declan ^a   Nisbet, Matthew C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

digital science reporting; roles of science journalists; science journalism online

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052735923     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884911412697     Document Type: Review

References (48)

1. Allan S Online News: Journalism and the Internet. Maidenhead: Open University Press ; 2006 :
2. AufderheidePClarkJNisbetMCDessauerCDonnellyK (2009) Best Practices in Digital Journalism. Report to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by the Center for Social Media at American University, Washington, DC. Available at: http://www.cpb.org/publicmedia2.0/docs/ ScanAnalysisBestPracticesDigitalJournalism2009.pdf
3. Barlow A The Rise of the Blogosphere. Westport, CT: Praeger ; 2007 :
4. BrainardC (2010a) Close encounters of the media kind. Columbia Journalism Review Online1 December. Available at: http://www.cjr.org/the-observatory/ close-encounters-of-the-media.php?page=all
5. Brumfiel G. Supplanting the old media?. Nature. 2009 ; 458: 274-278
6. Buckingham D The Making of Citizens: Young People, News and Politics. New York: Routledge ; 2000 :
7. Creswell JW Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions. London: SAGE ; 1998 :
8. Davidson K The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science. Doel RE Söderqvist T, ed. New York: Routledge ; 2006: 15-30.
9. Deuze M. The web and its journalisms: Considering the consequences of different types of news media online. New Media & Society. 2003 ; 5 (2). 203-230
10. Deuze M. What is journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered. Journalism. 2005 ; 6 (4). 442-464
11. Deuze M. The people formerly known as the employers. Journalism. 2009 ; 10 (3). 315-318
12. Einsiedel E Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology. Bucchi M Trench B, ed. London: Routledge ; 2008: 173-184.
13. Fahy D. The Irish punditocracy as contrarian voice: Opinion coverage of the Irish workplace smoking ban. Irish Communications Review. 2009 ; 11: 50-62
14. Flyvbjerg B Qualitative Research Practice. Seale C Gobo G Gubrium JF Silverman D, ed. London: SAGE ; 2004: 420-434.
15. Franklin J Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication: Between News and Public Relations. Bauer M Bucchi M, ed. New York: Routledge ; 2006: 143-157.
16. Hansen A Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age. Holliman R Thomas J Smidt S Scanlon E Whitelegg E, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2009: 105-127.
17. Kiernan V. Diffusion of news about research. Science Communication. 2003 ; 25 (1). 3-13
18. Knight Commission (2009) Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. Available at: http://www.knightcomm.org/read-the-report-and- comment/
19. KrumenakerL (2010) Recession hits science writers. National Association of Science Writers Sciencewriters Magazine, 28 August. Available at: http://www.nasw.org/sciencewriters-recession-hits-science-writers
20. Kuhn T The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1996 ) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edn.London: University of Chicago Press. London: University of Chicago Press ; 1996 :
21. Lewenstein BV. The meaning of 'public understanding of science' in the United States after World War II. Public Understanding of Science. 1992 ; 1: 45-68
22. LewisC (2010) New Journalism Eco-system Thrives. Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University, Washington DC. Available at: http:// investigativereportingworkshop.org/ilab/story/ecosystem/
23. McCombs ME The Press. Overholser G Jamieson KH, ed. New York: Oxford University Press ; 2005: 156-168.
24. Matheson D. Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: Some trends in online journalism. New Media & Society. 2004 ; 6 (4). 443-68
25. Mitchelstein E, Boczkowski PJ. Between tradition and change: A review of recent research on online news production. Journalism. 2009 ; 10 (5). 562-586
26. Murcott T. Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood. Nature. 2009 ; 459: 1054-5
27. NASA (2010) NASA sets news conference on astrobiology discovery; Science journal has embargoed details until 2 p.m. EST on Dec 2. 29 November. Available at: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ-M10-167-Astrobiology.html
28. Response required. Nature. 2010 ; 468: 867
29. NaughtonJ (2006) Blogging and the Emerging Media Ecosystem. Background Paper for invited seminar to Reuters Fellowship, University of Oxford, 8 November 2006. Available at: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf
30. Nelkin D Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology. 1995 ) Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology, 2nd edn.New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company ; 1995 :
31. Nisbet MC Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Schlosberg D Dryzek J Norgaard R, ed. London: Oxford University Press ;
32. Nisbet MC, Scheufele DA. What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions. American Journal of Botany. 2009 ; 96 (10). 1767-1778
33. Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism (2010a) Understanding the Participatory News Consumer, 1 March. Available at: http://www.journalism.org/ analysis-report/understanding-participatory-news-consumer
34. Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism (2010b) New Media, Old Media, 23 May. Available at: http://www.journalism.org/analysis-report/new-media-old- media
35. Radford T Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication: Between News and Public Relations. Bauer M Bucchi M, ed. New York: Routledge ; 2006: 95-101.
36. RedfieldR (2010) Arsenic-associated bacteria (NASA's claims). RRResearch blog, 4 December. Available at: http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic- associated-bacteria-nasas.html
37. Reese SD, Rutigliano L, Hyun K, Jeong J. Mapping the blogosphere: Professional and citizen-based media in the global news arena. Journalism. 2007 ; 8 (3). 235-261
38. Rensberger B. Science journalism: Too close for comfort. Nature. 2009 ; 459: 1055-1056
39. Rubin HJ, Rubin IS Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. 2005 ) Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data, 2nd edn.Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE ; 2005 :
40. Saukko P Doing Research in Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches. London: SAGE ; 2003 :
41. Science and the Media Expert Group (2010) Science and the Media: Securing the Future. Report for the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, January. Available at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tna/+/http:// www.bis.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Science-and-the-Media-Securing-Future. pdf/
42. Steensen S. The shaping of an online feature journalist. Journalism. 2009 ; 10 (5). 702-718
43. Trench B Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication: Between News and Public Relations. Bauer M Bucchi M, ed. New York: Routledge ; 2007: 133-141.
44. Trench B Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age: Implications for Public Engagement and Popular Media. Holliman R Whitelegg E Scanlon E Smidt S Thomas J, ed. London: Oxford University Press ; 2009: 166-179.
45. Wolfe-SimonL (2010) Response to questions concerning the Science article: A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus. Felisa blog, 16 December. Available at: http://ironlisa.com/gfaj/GFAJquestions-Response- 16Dec2010.pdf
46. Wolfe-SimonFSwitzer BlumJKulpTRGordonGWHoeftSEPett- RidgeJStolzJFWebbSMWeberPKDaviesPCAnbarADOremlandRS (2010a) A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus. Science, 2 December. Available at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/01/science.1197258.full.pdf
47. Wolfe-SimonFSwitzer BlumJKulpTR. (2010b) Wolfe-Simon et al. Comment. Felisa blog, 8 December. Available at: http://www.ironlisa.com/gfaj/
48. ZimmerC (2010) This paper should not have been published. Slate, 7 December. Available at: http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/