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Political implications of science popularisation strategies: Frontiers of Science

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, August 2015
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Title
Political implications of science popularisation strategies: Frontiers of Science
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, August 2015
DOI 10.1177/0963662515597186
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Authors

Maureen Burns

Abstract

This examination of the mediation strategies of a very popular factual science comic strip series from the 1960s and 1970s illustrates, in this case by highlighting the ways in which women were targeted as an audience, that science popularisations are always political. For that reason, they should not be evaluated merely in terms of scientific accuracy. I demonstrate tensions between the dissemination model of communication used in the distribution of science popularisations, on the one hand, with the advocacy of a dialogue model in their content, on the other.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Researcher 2 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 5%
Professor 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 43%
Psychology 2 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 November 2016.
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#7,408,178
of 22,821,814 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#633
of 1,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88,385
of 264,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#12
of 18 outputs
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