Communicating the Social Sciences: A Specific Challenge?

Angela Cassidy

Communicating the Social Sciences: A Specific Challenge?

Angela Cassidy

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This chapter reviews developing debates around the public communication of the social sciences and humanities (PCSS). While drawing valid comparisons between PCSS and natural scientific communication is problematic, existing studies suggest that that these disciplines receive extensive media coverage, which differs markedly in how research findings and expert sources are discussed. This may be due to overlaps between the human subject matter of these disciplines, and the experiential knowledge of everyday life. PCST researchers need to address reflexively the public communication of their own work, in order to improve the advice given to others about how scientific communication works.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, 2nd Edition
Editors	Massimiano Bucchi, Brian Trench
Place of Publication	London ; New York
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	186-197
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9780415834612
Publication status	Published - 2014

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The (sexual) politics of evolution: Popular controversy in the late 20th-century United Kingdom
Cassidy, A., May 2007, In: History Of Psychology. 10, 2, p. 199-226 28 p.
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Evolutionary psychology as public science and boundary work
Cassidy, A., Apr 2006, In: PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE. 15, 2, p. 175-205 31 p.
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Popular evolutionary psychology in the UK: an unusual case of science in the media?
Cassidy, A., Apr 2005, In: PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE. 14, 2, p. 115-141 27 p.
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Communicating the Social Sciences: A Specific Challenge?

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The (sexual) politics of evolution: Popular controversy in the late 20th-century United Kingdom

Evolutionary psychology as public science and boundary work

Popular evolutionary psychology in the UK: an unusual case of science in the media?

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