Results :: Search Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

A Matter of Life and Death: Rethinking evolution and the Nature of Science on Television: Author: Bard, Susanne Clara; Date: 2006-08-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: In a world where antibiotic resistance can make bacterial infections deadly and the HIV virus constantly mutates inside the human body, an understanding of evolution and its mechanisms is increasingly important. Yet much of the public is still either hostile to or misunderstands evolution and its mechanisms. Television provides the bulk of the general public's exposure to science once formal education has ended. The rhetorical strategies employed by much of science and evolution programming, along with an emphasis on content over process, delivers the message that science is a search for absol...; Download File | View full details