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Taiwanese life scientists less "medialized" than their Western colleagues.
Taiwanese life scientists less "medialized" than their Western colleagues.
The article presents results from surveys of life scientists in Taiwan (n = 270) and in Germany (n = 326).Fewer Taiwanese than German researchers have frequent contact with the media and they rate theirexperiences with journalists less positively. Furthermore, they are less prepared to adapt to jour...
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Personal Name(s): | Lo, Yin-Yueh |
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Peters, Hans Peter | |
Contributing Institute: |
Ethik in den Neurowissenschaften; INM-8 |
Published in: | Public understanding of science, 24 (2015) 1, S. 6-22 |
Imprint: |
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Sage
2015
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PubMed ID: |
24368762 |
DOI: |
10.1177/0963662513513863 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Theory, modelling and simulation |
Link: |
OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513513863 in citations.
The article presents results from surveys of life scientists in Taiwan (n = 270) and in Germany (n = 326).Fewer Taiwanese than German researchers have frequent contact with the media and they rate theirexperiences with journalists less positively. Furthermore, they are less prepared to adapt to journalisticexpectations and to a greater extent than German researchers they expect journalists to consider scientificcriteria in their reporting. These findings are interpreted in Weingart’s “medialization of science” frameworkas indicators of lower medialization of science in Taiwan than in Germany. However, Taiwanese scientistsare more willing than German scientists to accept journalistic simplification at the expense of accuracy.This is explained as an adaptation to the media system and to the perceived scientific literacy of the mediaaudience. We hypothesize that cultural differences regarding the relative priority of relational vs. rationalcommunication goals may also contribute to more tolerance of journalistic simplification in Taiwan |