Public Understanding of Science Special Issue: Scientific Uncertainty in the Media November 2016; Vol. 25, No. 8

Public Understanding of Science
Special Issue: Scientific Uncertainty in the Media
November 2016; Vol. 25, No. 8
Introduction
Scientific uncertainty in media content: Introduction to this special issue
Hans Peter Peters and Sharon Dunwoody

Articles
Constructing (un-)certainty: An exploration of journalistic decision-making in the reporting of neuroscience
Markus Lehmkuhl and Hans Peter Peters

Scientific evidence and mass media: Investigating the journalistic intention to represent scientific uncertainty
Lars Guenther and Georg Ruhrmann

Stakeholders’ rationales for representing uncertainties of biotechnological research
Senja Post and Michaela Maier

Rhetorical functions of a ‘language of uncertainty’ in the mass media
Anne Simmerling and Nina Janich

The influence of weight-of-evidence strategies on audience perceptions of (un)certainty when media cover contested science
Patrice Ann Kohl, Soo Yun Kim, Yilang Peng, Heather Akin, Eun Jeong Koh, Allison Howell, and Sharon Dunwoody

Evoking vigilance: Would you (dis)trust a scientist who discusses ethical implications of research in a science blog?
Friederike Hendriks, Dorothe Kienhues, and Rainer Bromme

Commentary
Scientific uncertainty in media content: Some reflections on this special issue
Robert J. Griffin

Review Essays
New texts in science communication
Jonathan Roberts

New media and social networks
Yves Laberge

Book Reviews
Book Review: The editor as catalyst and activist
Ullica Segerstrale

Book review: Peter Washer, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society
Declan Fahy

Book Review: Alessandro Delfanti, Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
Krishna Ravi Srinivas

Book Review: Sabine Höhler, Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
Jon Turney

Book Review: Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen and Nina Lager Vestberg (eds), Media and the ecological crisis
Liisa Antilla Kellems