| Title |
: Scientists in the Media and Politicization of Science― The Case of BSE Controversy in 2008 |
| Date |
: 2011. 5. |
| Journal title |
: Discourse 201 |
| Author |
: Bak, Heeje |
| Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
| Abstract |
: The BSE controversy in 2008 demonstrated that Korean mass media constructed news stories reflecting their own political positions even when they reported on scientific knowledge, which has been known as the most objective knowledge. While news reports cited experts to deliver objective knowledge with authority, Korean media generated news from a specific position in the controversy by determining who they would use as information sources. That is, in the BSE reports, experts were used as supporters of a specific position in the controversy rather than as neutral information sources. At the same time, while scientific knowledge on BSE as an example of post-normal science has suffered from many uncertainties, experts also tended to express a specific position in the controversy as objective and indisputable knowledge rather than acknowledging uncertainties. That is, experts tended to speak for one side of the controversy as objective knowledge, while the media tended to cite selectively experts in a specific position. As the result, the media and experts failed to think over the uncertainties and limits of scientific knowledge reflexively and lead social discussion for consensus based upon them.
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