1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819401303321

Titolo

Social scientists meet the media / / edited by Cheryl Haslam and Alan Bryman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-89183-0

1-134-89184-9

0-203-30923-5

1-280-33650-1

0-203-41859-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaslamCheryl <1960->

BrymanAlan

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects

Communication in the social sciences

Social sciences - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Social scientists meet the media; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part ISocial scientists; Chapter1 If you want publicity...call an estate agent?; Chapter 2The psychologist and the media: opportunities, challenges and dangers; Chapter 3The sociologist as media football: reminiscences and preliminary reflections; Chapter 4Media vs. reality?; Chapter 5The research dissemination minefield; Chapter 6Sex and dinosaurs; Chapter 7Pornography's piggy in the middle: pressure groups, the media and research

Chapter 8Tales of expertise and experience: sociological reasoning and popular representationChapter 9Media representations of psychology: denigration and popularization, or worthy dissemination of knowledge?; Chapter 10Contributing to broadcast news analysis and current affairs documentaries: challenges and pitfalls; Part II The media; Chapter 11Productive partners-the view from radio; Chapter 12Television's dangerous liaisons; Chapter 13 From science to



journalism; Social scientists and the media: an overview; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""Part chronicle, part analysis and part advice manual, Social Scientists Meets the Media combines the thoughts of academics and media people to produce a vivid and valuable series of accounts that will prove of service to all academics seeking a wider audience but wary of the terra incognita they face in finding one"" Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire UniversitySocial Scientists know they are in a dilemma: their work may fall prey to sensationalism, but at the same time they don't want to be overlooked. Social Scientists Meet the Media collects the experiences of academics who have s