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Science Communication
Volume 29(1), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Lopez, Jose Julian Notes on metaphors, notes as metaphors: The genome as musical spectacle 7-34
 
  This article is a contribution to the growing body of work that has emphasized the need to develop a theoretical framework capable of exploring metaphorical communication as a social rather than just as a cognitive process 
 
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metaphor
theory
semiotic theory
rhetoric
 
 
Steinke, Jocelyn, Lapinski, Maria Knight, Crocker, Nikki, Zietsman-Thomas, Aletta, Williams, Yaschica, Evergreen, Stephanie Higdon, and Kuchibhotla, Sarvani Assessing media influences on middle school-aged children's perceptions of women in science using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) 35-64
 
  Gender stereotypes in the mass media perpetuate traditional views of women that may influence children's perceptions of women in science, engineering, and technology 
 
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broadcasting and media
gender
children
cognition
 
 
Thurs, Daniel Patrick Tiny tech, transcendent tech: Nanotechnology, science fiction, and the limits of modern science talk 65-95
 
  Images derived from science fiction have been widely used to discuss the emerging science of nanotechnology 
 
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popular culture
science
rhetoric
 
 
Anderson, Alison, and Marhadour, Agnes Slick PR? The media politics of the prestige oil spill 96-115
 
  This article examines the different ways in which Spanish, French, and U.K 
 
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news
Europe
computer
technologies
ecology
broadcasting and media
 
 
Jacobson, Nora Social epistemology: Theory for the "fourth wave" of knowledge transfer and exchange research 116-127
 
  Knowledge transfer and exchange has become an increasingly important practice in the arena of publicly funded health and social research 
 
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theory
higher education