Location

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Greenspun Hall (first & second floor lobby)

Description

This poster will illustrate preliminary findings of how science images are portrayed in the New York Times, specifically, the Science Times section that is published every Tuesday and has grown in readership and popularity. Science images, five issues per year, have been coded over the past 34 years since the Science Times section first appeared in print. Our work follows trends that observe types of images, how many images are present, and whether the image is a photo or graphic of some sort.

Keywords

Media; Popular science; Visual representations

Disciplines

Journalism Studies | Mass Communication | Science and Technology Studies

Language

English


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How science is visually portrayed in the media: An examination of science times

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Greenspun Hall (first & second floor lobby)

This poster will illustrate preliminary findings of how science images are portrayed in the New York Times, specifically, the Science Times section that is published every Tuesday and has grown in readership and popularity. Science images, five issues per year, have been coded over the past 34 years since the Science Times section first appeared in print. Our work follows trends that observe types of images, how many images are present, and whether the image is a photo or graphic of some sort.