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Publication details [#61853]

Ruhrmann, Georg, Michaela Maier, Jutta Milde, Senja Post, Lars Günther and Berend Barkela. 2016. Communicating scientific evidence: scientists’, journalists’ and audiences’ expectations and evaluations regarding the representation of scientific uncertainty. Communications 41 (3).
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Though scientists and journalists broadly consent that scientific uncertainty should be indicated in their communication, the fomer trust uncertainties not to be misapplied or dramatized, whilst the latter want to foster critical audience reflection on scientific findings. Audiences though consider media coverage on scientific uncertainty of less concern. They plainly await fact-oriented news on technology use in daily life.