Science medialisation in a reluctant knowledge-based economy: the case of biotechnology in New Zealand

Lisa Callagher and Kenneth Husted

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 2010, vol. 1, issue 3, 222-241

Abstract: In the shift towards the knowledge economy, the increased role and value placed on science is associated with an increased medialisation of science. This paper examines how biotechnology is medialised in the context of New Zealand, a society whose knowledge-based development is characterised by belated political reforms, low to medium levels of R&D investment in general and low levels of industry-based R&D in particular. We apply three dimensions of medialisation – extensiveness, pluralisation and controversy – to examine how biotechnology has been medialised in New Zealand over a 15 year period. We discuss how knowledge-based development systems moderate the medialisation of science.

Keywords: knowledge-based development; KBD; public understanding of science; medialisation; biotechnology; New Zealand; NZ; knowledge economy; extensiveness; pluralisation; controversy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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