The Public, the Media and Agricultural Biotechnology

Edited by
Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
James E. Shanahan, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
T. Clint Nesbitt, USDA-APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services Riverdale, USA
CABI Publishing. February 2007. 414 pages

publications in press

• Ho, S. S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (in press). Effects of value predispositions, mass media use, and knowledge on public attitudes toward embryonic stem cell research. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
• Niederdeppe, J. (in press). Beyond knowledge gaps: Examining socioeconomic differences in response to cancer news. Human Communication Research.
• Niederdeppe, J., Frosch, D. L., & Hornik, R. (in press). Cancer news coverage and information seeking. Journal of Health Communication.

2008 publications

• Ho, S. S., Lee, W., & Shahiraa, S. H. (2008). Muslim surfers on the Internet: Using the theory of planned behavior to examine the factors influencing engagement in online religious activities. New Media & Society, 10(1), 93-113.
• Ho, S. S., & McLeod, D. M. (2008). Social-psychological influences on opinion expression in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication. Communication Research, 35(2), 190-207.

2007 publications

• Brossard, D., & Nisbet, M. (2007). Deference to scientific authority among a low information public: Understanding U.S. opinion on agricultural biotechnology. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(1).
• Dalrymple, K. E., & Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Finally informing the electorate? How the internet got people thinking about presidential politics in 2004. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 12(3).
• Dudo, A. D., Dahlstrom, M. F., & Brossard, D. (2007). Reporting a potential pandemic: A risk-related assessment of avian influenza coverage in U.S. newspapers. Science Communication 28(4), 429-454.
• Gunther, A. C., & Liebhart, J. L. (2007). The hostile media effect and public opinion about biotechnology. In D. Brossard, J. Shanahan, and T. C. Nesbit (Eds.), The public, the media, and agricultural biotechnology: An international casebook. Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing.
• Ho, S. S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2007). The polls-trends: Public reactions to global health threats and infectious diseases. Public Opinion Quarterly 71(4), 671-692.
• Holbert, R. L., Lambe, J. L., Dudo, A. D., & Carlton, K. A. (2007). Primacy effects of The Daily Show and national TV news viewing: Young viewers, political gratifications, and internal political self-efficacy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 51(1), 20-38.
• Niederdeppe, J., Davis, K. C., & Farrelly, M. C. (2007). Stylistic features, need for sensation, and confirmed recall of national smoking prevention advertisements. Journal of Communication 57, 272-292.
• Niederdeppe, J., Farrelly, M. C., Wenter, D., Thomas, K., & Weitzencamp, D. (2007). Newspaper coverage as indirect effects of a health communication intervention: The Florida tobacco control program and youth smoking. Communication Research 34, 382-405.
• Niederdeppe, J., Hornik, R., Kelly, B., Frosch, D., Romantan, A., et al. (2007). Examining the dimensions of cancer-related information seeking and scanning behavior. Health Communication 22(2), 153-167.
• Scheufele, D. A., Kim, E., & Brossard, D. (2007). My friend's enemy: How split-screen debate coverage influences evaluations of presidential debates. Communication Research, 34(1), 3-24.
• Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Opinion climates, spirals of silence, and biotechnology: Public opinion as a heuristic for scientific decision making. In D. Brossard, J. Shanahan, and T. C. Nesbit (Eds.), The public, the media, and agricultural biotechnology: An international casebook (pp. 231-241). Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing.
• Shih, T., Wijaya, R., & Brossard, D. (in press). Media coverage of epidemic hazards: Linking framing and issue attention cycle towards an integrated theory of print news coverage of epidemic hazards. Mass Communication & Society.

2006 publications

• Brossard, D., & Shanahan, J. (2006). Do they know what they read? Building a scientific literacy measurement instrument based on science media coverage. Science Communication 28, 47-63.
• Scheufele, D. A., Hardy, B., Brossard, D., Waismel-Manor, I. S., & Nisbet., E. (2006). Democracy based on difference: Examining the links between structural heterogeneity, heterogeneity of discussion networks, and democratic citizenship. Journal of Communication, 56(4), 728-753.
• Hayes, A., Scheufele, D. A., & Huge, M. (2006). Nonparticipation as self-censorship: Publicly-observable political activity in a polarized opinion climate. Political Behavior, 28(3), 259-283.
• Shah, D. V., & Scheufele, D. A. (2006). Opinion leaders as information seekers: Communication pathways to civic participation. Political Communication, 23(1), 1-22.
• Scheufele, D. A. (2006). Messages and heuristics: How audiences form attitudes about emerging technologies. In J. Turney (Ed.), Engaging science: Thoughts, deeds, analysis and action (pp. 20-25). London: The Wellcome Trust.
• Hardy, B. W., & Scheufele, D. A. (2006). The Internet and democratic citizenship. In Ari-Veikko & Matti Mälkiä (Eds.), Encyclopedia of digital government (pp. 1250-1254). Hershey, PA: IPI.