Issue salience and media framing over 30 years

Martin W. Bauer; Jan M. Gutteling

doi:10.4324/9781849773867-16

Issue salience and media framing over 30 years

Martin W. Bauer
, Jan M. Gutteling

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Abstract

Media coverage of modern biotechnology is the focus of this chapter.1 The mass media are an important player and arena in the development of a new technology (Bauer, 2002a). They create the symbolic environment that fuels technological optimism and pessimism, as it may be, and thus contribute to a public sphere of technological controversies. Are the mass media an extension of interested actors, and therefore a mere epiphenomenon of the establishment, or are they making a contribution sui generis to technological debates? We will address this key issue by splitting it into three separate questions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Genomics & Society, legal, ethical & social dimensions
Editors	George Gaskell, Martin W. Bauer
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Earthscan
Pages	113-130
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781849773867
ISBN (Print)	978-1-84407-113
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849773867-16
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2013

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