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Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Davis, P. (2018). Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science.

This paper focuses on how the personal epistemologies of scientists and science communicators shape their practices and interact with one another in the construction of popular science news. I present data from observations and interviews with scient... Read More about Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science.

Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Davis, P. (2018). Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication.

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... Read More about Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication.