Contesting Science by Appealing to Its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in the Daily Mail

Science Communication

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 383-410

  Jaspal, Rusi ^a   Nerlich, Brigitte ^a   Koteyko, Nelya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; communication; critical discourse analysis; public understanding; skepticism; social media; social psychology; social representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877347182     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547012459274     Document Type: Article

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