Public Understanding of Science - Volume: 26, Number: 1 (January 2017)

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Public Understanding of Science - Volume: 26, Number: 1 (January 2017)
Invited Essays

Contemporary understanding of riots: Classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach
Clifford Stott, John Drury
A framework for visual communication at Nature
Kelly Krause
Articles

The influence of science popularizers on the public’s view of religion and science: An experimental assessment
Christopher P. Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund
Mundane science use in a practice theoretical perspective: Different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public communication initiatives build on scientific claims
Bente Halkier
UK science press officers, professional vision and the generation of expectations
Gabrielle Samuel, Clare WilliamsJohn Gardner
Understanding public perceptions of biotechnology through the “Integrative Worldview Framework”
Annick De Witt, Patricia Osseweijer, Robin Pierce
Framing ‘fracking’: Exploring public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom
Laurence Williams, Phil Macnaghten, Richard Davies, Sarah Curtis
Discourse over a contested technology on Twitter: A case study of hydraulic fracturing
Jill E. Hopke, Molly Simis
Commentaries

Response to “Discourse over a contested technology on Twitter: A case study of hydraulic fracturing”—Word choice as political speech
Emily Grubert
Response to ‘Word choice as political speech’: Hydraulic fracturing is a partisan issue
Jill E. Hopke, Molly Simis