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Science 11 July 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5886, pp. 204 - 205
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157780
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
Interactions with the Mass Media

Hans Peter Peters,1* Dominique Brossard,2 Suzanne de Cheveigné,3 Sharon Dunwoody,2 Monika Kallfass,1 Steve Miller,4 Shoji Tsuchida5

A survey reveals that media contacts of scientists in top R&D countries are more frequent and smooth than was previously thought.

1Program Group Humans-Environment-Technology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.

2School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

3Shadyc--Sociologie, histoire, anthropologie des dynamiques culturelles, l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)-CNRS, 13236 Marseille, France.

4Science and Technology Studies, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

5Department of Psychology, Kansai University, Osaka 564-8680, Japan.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: h.p.peters{at}fz-juelich.de

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