Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication

Davis, Pryce

Abstract

In this paper I study scientists, reporters, and news readers as they produce and/or interpret scientific texts. Imagining all of these actors as science learners allows me to compare across their individual understandings to follow ideas through the pathways of science communication. I provide a case study of how one scientist’s understandings causes difficulties for a reporter and two news readers. This case problematizes popular assumptions about the causes of public misunderstandings of science.

Citation

Davis, P. Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication. Presented at 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)

• Conference Name: 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)
• End Date: Jun 27, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Feb 12, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 24, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 24, 2018
• Journal: Proceedings of the 13th International Conferences of the Learning Sciences
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/941840
• Contract Date: Jun 7, 2018