From Peer Review to Crowd Review

Kategorie: Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften·Naturwissenschaften·Politik  ·  Kommentare: 3

(auf internationationaler Konferenz -- deshalb heute mal auf Englisch)

Let me share a few points with you that I had the opportunity, today, to make during a presentation and panel at the EU "Media for Science Forum 2010" about public "science debates" like the one during the Obama campaign: In the run-up to the US presidential elections, researchers analysed 171 TV interviews with the candidates, amounting to 2975 questions. Only 6 of those dealt with "climate change" (and 3 with "UFO"s). This was one of major „reasons why" it came to the "science debate" -- generating more than 800 Million page impressions - with dozens of further debates mushrooming in all areas of technology. (see Shawn Lawrence Ottos's keynote presentation at the 2009 Nobel Conference: http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=71 (min. 25-26)).
Is this just an American phenomenon? Which relevance does science have in European politics, European media, and in the general public? An analysis of prime-time news in European TV shows:

• an increase in number and airtime of science-related stories (by the factor 4 since 1989), but also


• only 45 Sci-Tech topics among the 2676 news stories analyzed within two weeks (less than 2% compared to e.g. to 9,7% with crime topics).

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Autor: Alexander Gerber· 12.05.10 · 21:58 Uhr· 3 Kommentare