Therefore, American media, having the ability to greatly promote a public interest in scientific literacy, must take responsibility to report only accurate scientific information in order to diminish the possibility of promoting unsubstantiated science and misleading the public.
With the media becoming a profuse vehicle for education, interests in the sciences have grown in the public. However, current coverage on scientific information today is largely obfuscated in the media. That is, today, information displayed through the media readily conflates into normative preconceptions of the public that may or may not be in its most accurate form. The step between translating scientific journals to the public undoubtedly creates susceptibility for misrepresentation of the information presented in scientific studies and journals. According to Hans Peter Peters, a social scientist at the Research Center Jülich, Germany, “the conceptualization of …show more content…
It is clear that preconceptions of the public from the media standpoint directs the way scientific information is presented. Contrary to the belief that the public would lose interest in information that is less defined, according to the study conducted by the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany, when participants were exposed to information containing both certain and uncertain aspects of nanotechnology, scientists” observed no effect of uncertainty presentation on interest in science but a positive effect of certain scientific evidence” (Retzbach, Maier 447). In this way, the prevailing preoccupations of the media are inaccurate as the information they distribute to the public. The media, having its abilities to incite scientific interests, have nothing to lose when deciding to construct scientific content. Rather, the media should place greater trust in the public, and rightfully incarnate the values of
With the media becoming a profuse vehicle for education, interests in the sciences have grown in the public. However, current coverage on scientific information today is largely obfuscated in the media. That is, today, information displayed through the media readily conflates into normative preconceptions of the public that may or may not be in its most accurate form. The step between translating scientific journals to the public undoubtedly creates susceptibility for misrepresentation of the information presented in scientific studies and journals. According to Hans Peter Peters, a social scientist at the Research Center Jülich, Germany, “the conceptualization of …show more content…
It is clear that preconceptions of the public from the media standpoint directs the way scientific information is presented. Contrary to the belief that the public would lose interest in information that is less defined, according to the study conducted by the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany, when participants were exposed to information containing both certain and uncertain aspects of nanotechnology, scientists” observed no effect of uncertainty presentation on interest in science but a positive effect of certain scientific evidence” (Retzbach, Maier 447). In this way, the prevailing preoccupations of the media are inaccurate as the information they distribute to the public. The media, having its abilities to incite scientific interests, have nothing to lose when deciding to construct scientific content. Rather, the media should place greater trust in the public, and rightfully incarnate the values of