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Social scientists meet the media / edited by Cheryl Haslam and Alan Bryman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Communication in the social sciences.
- Social sciences--Research.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-89183-0
- 1-134-89184-9
- 0-203-30923-5
- 1-280-33650-1
- 0-203-41859-X
- 9780203418598
- OCLC:
- 52150457
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