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Science on the Air

Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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Science on the Air

Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226466957

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Science on American Television

A History

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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Science on American Television

A History

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

This volume narrates the history of science on television, from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st-century, to demonstrate how disagreements between scientists and television executives inhibited the medium's potential to engage in meaningful science education.

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317

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University of Chicago Press

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0226921999

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9780226921990

Writing for Their Lives

America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

By: Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette

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Writing for Their Lives

America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

By: Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette

A breathtaking history of America’s trail-blazing female science journalists—and the timely lessons they can teach us about equity, access, collaboration, and persistence. Writing for Their Lives tells the stories of women who pioneered the nascent profession of science journalism from the 1920s through the 1950s. Like the “hidden figures” of science, such as Dorothy Vaughan and Katherine Johnson, these women journalists, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette writes, were also overlooked in traditional histories of science and journalism. But, at a time when science, medicine, and the mass media were expanding dramatically, Emma Reh, Jane Stafford, Marjorie Van de Water, and many others were explaining theories, discoveries, and medical advances to millions of readers via syndicated news stories, weekly columns, weekend features, and books—and they deserve the recognition they have long been denied. Grounded in extensive archival research and enlivened by passages of original correspondence, Writing for Their Lives addresses topics such as censorship, peer review, and news embargoes, while also providing intimate glimpses into the personal lives and adventures of mid-twentieth-century career women. They were single, married, or divorced; mothers with child-care responsibilities; daughters supporting widowed mothers; urban dwellers who lived through, and wrote about, the Great Depression, World War II, and the dawn of the Atomic Age—all the while, daring to challenge the arrogance and misogyny of the male scientific community in pursuit of information that could serve the public. Written at a time when trust in science is at a premium, Writing for Their Lives is an inspiring untold history that underscores just how crucial dedicated, conscientious journalists are to the public understanding and acceptance of scientific guidance and expertise.

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MIT Press

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0262048167

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9780262048163

Writing for Their Lives

America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists

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Based on extensive archival research in the voluminous Science Service records at the Smithsonian Institution, Writing for Their Lives focuses on a remarkable group of women whose contributions to science and journalism deserve greater recognition"--

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Science on American Television

A History

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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A History

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Science on the Air

Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television

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America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

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Stealing Into Print

Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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Stealing Into Print

Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Difficult to put down. . . . I have studied these issues for the better part of a decade and learned from this book not only about new cases but also about the intersection of law, science, and government."--Daryl E. Chubin, author of Peerless Science: Peer Review in United States Science Policy "Thoughtful, clear, and very well written . . . will be the basis of how the issues are defined, what the options and their problems are, and what other features lurk on the horizon."--Lawrence Badash, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Univ of California Press

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0520078314

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Stealing Into Print

Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

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