Communicating science in times of crisis : the COVID-19 pandemic /
"For science communication to function competently, it needs to understand the attitudes and beliefs currently at play among its audiences. Among the currents of the contemporary noosphere are the fake news, conspiracy theories, and various forms of information distortion, both innocent and mal...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "For science communication to function competently, it needs to understand the attitudes and beliefs currently at play among its audiences. Among the currents of the contemporary noosphere are the fake news, conspiracy theories, and various forms of information distortion, both innocent and malign by design. This chapter examines various conceptual approaches to defining these forms of information distortion, develops a typology to incorporate many of the relevant key features and dimensions, and selectively reviews several lines of theoretical perspectives that elucidate the nature of such information and its credibility with audiences. The implications of developing better theoretical understandings of such dismisinformation are elaborated"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 432 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119751809 1119751802 9781119751786 1119751780 9781119751793 1119751799 |