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Dear all, Just a reminder about our next seminar which is this Wednesday 30th May. We are very pleased to have Felicity Mellor (Imperial College London, Science Communication Unit) talking about her work on, and analysis of, the recent impartiality review of the BBC's science programming. Details of the seminar are below. All welcome. If you'd like to join the email list then please contact Simon Lock. We look forward to seeing you there. Professor Martin Bauer, Dr Simon Lock, Dr Jane Gregory Date, Time and Location: Wednesday 30th May 2012 16.15-18:00 Venue: St Clement's, S314, LSE http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm Speaker: Felicity Mellor (Imperial College London) Title: Off balance? The impartiality review of the BBC’s science coverage. Abstract: In 2010, the BBC Trust commissioned a review of the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s science coverage. This seminar will examine how the notion impartiality applies to science journalism by drawing on the results of a content analysis conducted as part of the BBC’s impartiality review. I will argue that commentators often adopt a narrow interpretation of impartiality as balance which has over-simplified debates about the media coverage of topics such as climate change. The findings of the content analysis raise questions about the sourcing strategies and transparency of the BBC’s science reporting which, I suggest, are important to ensuring impartiality. Future seminars - 2011/12 Session: 20th June - Alfred Moore, University of British Columbia, on epistemic disobedience About the Seminar Series The London PUS seminar is an interdisciplinary intercollegiate seminar concerned with the broad range of topics that fall under the headings of public understanding of science, public engagement with science, science communication, and science-in-society. It has been run jointly between LSE and UCL since 1993 and is open to all. Our participants predominantly come from a wide range of academic disciplines, and the science policy and science communication/public engagement communities. It is currently supported by the Public Understanding of Science journal published by SAGE and the Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL. Dr Simon J Lock Teaching Fellow in STS Global Citizenship Study Abroad Programme Co-ordinator Department of Science and Technology Studies UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 020 7679 3763 (internal: x33763) www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/lock<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/lock> twitter: @simonjlock STS Goes Global! Study Abroad Year in Global Citizenship at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/global-citizen<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/global-citizen> ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************