The public, the media and agricultural biotechnology /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Genetic engineering > Public opinion.; Mass media.; Biotechnology > Public opinion.; Communication.; Genetically modified foods > Public opinion.; Communication and Mass Media.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Attitudes.; Biotechnology.; Genetically engineered foods.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Public opinion.; Electronic books.
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This book examines public perception, public deliberation and media presentation of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified foods. Part I (chapters 1-7) is a review of some of the studies of public opinion about agricultural biotechnology, especially genetically modified organisms. Part...

Table of Contents:

• Perspectives on communication about agricultural biotechnology / D. Brossard and J. Shanahan
• Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnology in the UK : the case of GM foods / W. Poortinga and N. Pidgeon
• German reactions to genetic engineering in food production / H.P. Peters and M. Sawicka
• Mass media and public perceptions of red and green biotechnology : a case from Switzerland / H. Bonfadelli, U. Dahinden and M. Leonarz
• Genetically modified foods : U.S. public opinion research polls / W. Fink and M. Rodemeyer
• Biotechnology and consumer information / J. Kolodinsky
• What do Brazilians think about transgenics? / L. Massarani and I. de Castro Moreira
• Where do science debates come from? understanding attention cycles and framing / M.C. Nishet and M. Huge
• Opinion climates, spirals of silence, and biotechnology : public opinion as a heuristic for scientific decision-making / D.A. Scheufele
• The hostile media effect and opinions about agricultural biotechnology / A.C. Gunther and J.L. Liebhart
• Risk communication, risk beliefs, and democracy : the case of agricultural biotechnology / S. Dunwoody and R.J. Griffin
• The GEO-PIE project : case study of Web-based outreach at Cornell University, USA / T.C. Nesbitt
• Governing controversial technologies : consensus conferences as a communication tool / J. Medlock, R. Downey, and E. Einsiedel
• The Bt maize experience in the Philippines : a multi-stakeholder convergence / M.J. Navarro, M. Escaler, M.I. Ponce de Leon and S.P. Tababa
• Food aid crisis and communication about GM foods : experience from Southern Africa / L.E. Mumba
• Approval process and adoption of Bollgard cotton in India : a private company perspective / R. Barwale, M. Char, S. Deshpande, M.K. Sharma and U.B. Zehr.