University of Hamburg, Germany.
Public Underst Sci. 2012 Aug;21(6):650-63. doi: 10.1177/0963662510387559. Epub 2010 Dec 1.
The presentation of science in the mass media is one of the most important questions facing social scientists who analyse science. Accordingly, media coverage of science has been a constant focal point in the respective literature, and a flurry of such publications has appeared in the past few years. Yet the activity and growth of the respective research have not been accompanied by systematic overviews. This article aims to provide such an overview by means of a meta-analysis: it analyses existing studies systematically and provides an empirical overview of the literature. The analysis shows that while the research field grew significantly in the past few years and employs a variety of research strategies and methods, it has been biased in three ways: mainly natural sciences (and namely biosciences and medicine), Western countries, and print media have been analysed.
在分析科学的社会科学家所面临的最重要的问题之一是在大众媒体中的科学表现。因此，媒体对科学的报道一直是各自文献的一个重点，并且在过去几年中出现了大量此类出版物。然而，各自研究的活动和增长并没有伴随着系统的概述。本文旨在通过元分析提供这样的概述：它系统地分析现有研究，并提供文献的经验概述。分析表明，尽管该研究领域在过去几年中显著增长，并采用了各种研究策略和方法，但它存在三个方面的偏差：主要是自然科学（即生物科学和医学）、西方国家和印刷媒体。
