S Holly Stocking
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Holly Stocking |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Holly |
| FAMILY NAME | Stocking |
| SIGNATURE | STOCKING S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Purveyors of ignorance
This chapter offers illustrative studies that have addressed some of the ways in which powerful actors who are threatened by research engage in efforts to construct public ignorance about that work, often targeting journalists to advance their causes. It considers how journalists respond to these efforts, and some of the factors that influence how, in violation of the ideals of journalism but, ironically, in keeping with what we know about newswo…
Manufacturing doubt
In recent decades, corporate and special interests have developed a wide repertoire of methods to manufacture doubt about science that threatens their interests. In the case presented here, a trade association issued a rich assortment of rhetorical claims intended to sow public confusion about university studies that threatened to undermine its industry's activities. Journalists' use of these claims appeared to vary largely as a function of their…
Hunting for Hope in the Academy
Can academic scholarship harbor hope for humanity, or is it destined to become just another of many things that contribute to the demise of our species? Prodded by the unflinching observations of an eminent colleague, a journalist-turned-academic goes hunting for hope in the scholarship of her own field of mass media studies. Her search raises uncomfortable questions not only for herself, but for other academics who share her environmental concer…
Outliers and Advocates
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On Drawing Attention to Ignorance
In the years since a symposium on science and ignorance at the 1993 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a small but growing number of scholars has begun to study scientific ignorance. This essay offers informal descriptions of three major projects on the social construction of ignorance and raises the possibility for the development of a sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) to complement the existi…
Constructing and Reconstructing Scientific Ignorance
In Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms, Australian sociologist Michael Smithson observes that Western intellectuals, who once preoccupied themselves with knowledge, are increasingly pondering ignorance. Those who are not, he adds, should consider doing so. It is an arresting suggestion, not unlike the one art instructors often make to students of drawing: do not look at the figure; look at the space around the figure. Once attention is …
How Do Journalists Think
How Journalists Describe Their Stories
Interviews with newpaper reporters showed that journalists, like scientists, usually had hypotheses in mind in working a story. Unlike those of scientists, however, journalists' hypotheses were both explicit and implicit. About half the time, journalists articulated definite competing hypotheses, haf the time not. Alll journalists going into their reporting harbored assumptions about their story subjects. Future research would do well to determin…
Selling Science
The Science Critic
Social Science in the Mass Media
Between scientists and public
Between scientists and public
Communicating science to the public through targeted messages
Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect
Immediate vs Delayed Retaliation in Male and Female Adults
20 male and 20 female undergraduates were provoked and provided with an opportunity to retaliate (a) immediately following provocation vs (b) after waiting in solitude. Waiting did not reliably affect level of retaliatory activities, and there were no appreciable sex differences in such activities. However, waiting produced significant decrements in sympathetic excitation for females but not for males. Waiting furthered pre-retaliatory feelings o…
Putdown Humor
Journal Article Putdown Humor Get access Dolf Zillmann, Dolf Zillmann 1Dolf Zillman is Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Communication Research at Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. Holly Stocking S. Holly Stocking 2S. Holly Stocking is a doctoral student in Mass Communications at Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Effects of Humorous Disparagement of Self, Friend, and Enemy
36 male and 36 female undergraduates in an introductory communications course were exposed to an audio-taped communication involving five humorous stories. The communication was manipulated so that the target of humorous disparagement by a male was (a) the disparager himself, (b) a male friend of the disparager, and (c) a male enemy of the disparager. The effects of disparagement on the perception of the disparager and on humor appreciation were …
How Journalists Describe Their Stories
Interviews with newpaper reporters showed that journalists, like scientists, usually had hypotheses in mind in working a story. Unlike those of scientists, however, journalists' hypotheses were both explicit and implicit. About half the time, journalists articulated definite competing hypotheses, haf the time not. Alll journalists going into their reporting harbored assumptions about their story subjects. Future research would do well to determin…
Constructing and Reconstructing Scientific Ignorance
In Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms, Australian sociologist Michael Smithson observes that Western intellectuals, who once preoccupied themselves with knowledge, are increasingly pondering ignorance. Those who are not, he adds, should consider doing so. It is an arresting suggestion, not unlike the one art instructors often make to students of drawing: do not look at the figure; look at the space around the figure. Once attention is …
On Drawing Attention to Ignorance
In the years since a symposium on science and ignorance at the 1993 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a small but growing number of scholars has begun to study scientific ignorance. This essay offers informal descriptions of three major projects on the social construction of ignorance and raises the possibility for the development of a sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) to complement the existi…
Putdown Humor
Journal Article Putdown Humor Get access Dolf Zillmann, Dolf Zillmann 1Dolf Zillman is Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Communication Research at Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. Holly Stocking S. Holly Stocking 2S. Holly Stocking is a doctoral student in Mass Communications at Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Effects of Humorous Disparagement of Self, Friend, and Enemy
36 male and 36 female undergraduates in an introductory communications course were exposed to an audio-taped communication involving five humorous stories. The communication was manipulated so that the target of humorous disparagement by a male was (a) the disparager himself, (b) a male friend of the disparager, and (c) a male enemy of the disparager. The effects of disparagement on the perception of the disparager and on humor appreciation were …
Immediate vs Delayed Retaliation in Male and Female Adults
20 male and 20 female undergraduates were provoked and provided with an opportunity to retaliate (a) immediately following provocation vs (b) after waiting in solitude. Waiting did not reliably affect level of retaliatory activities, and there were no appreciable sex differences in such activities. However, waiting produced significant decrements in sympathetic excitation for females but not for males. Waiting furthered pre-retaliatory feelings o…
Communicating science to the public through targeted messages
Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect
Social Science in the Mass Media
Between scientists and public
Between scientists and public
The Science Critic
Selling Science
How Journalists Describe Their Stories
Interviews with newpaper reporters showed that journalists, like scientists, usually had hypotheses in mind in working a story. Unlike those of scientists, however, journalists' hypotheses were both explicit and implicit. About half the time, journalists articulated definite competing hypotheses, haf the time not. Alll journalists going into their reporting harbored assumptions about their story subjects. Future research would do well to determin…
How Do Journalists Think
Constructing and Reconstructing Scientific Ignorance
In Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms, Australian sociologist Michael Smithson observes that Western intellectuals, who once preoccupied themselves with knowledge, are increasingly pondering ignorance. Those who are not, he adds, should consider doing so. It is an arresting suggestion, not unlike the one art instructors often make to students of drawing: do not look at the figure; look at the space around the figure. Once attention is …
On Drawing Attention to Ignorance
In the years since a symposium on science and ignorance at the 1993 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a small but growing number of scholars has begun to study scientific ignorance. This essay offers informal descriptions of three major projects on the social construction of ignorance and raises the possibility for the development of a sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) to complement the existi…
Hunting for Hope in the Academy
Can academic scholarship harbor hope for humanity, or is it destined to become just another of many things that contribute to the demise of our species? Prodded by the unflinching observations of an eminent colleague, a journalist-turned-academic goes hunting for hope in the scholarship of her own field of mass media studies. Her search raises uncomfortable questions not only for herself, but for other academics who share her environmental concer…
Outliers and Advocates
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Manufacturing doubt
In recent decades, corporate and special interests have developed a wide repertoire of methods to manufacture doubt about science that threatens their interests. In the case presented here, a trade association issued a rich assortment of rhetorical claims intended to sow public confusion about university studies that threatened to undermine its industry's activities. Journalists' use of these claims appeared to vary largely as a function of their…
Purveyors of ignorance
This chapter offers illustrative studies that have addressed some of the ways in which powerful actors who are threatened by research engage in efforts to construct public ignorance about that work, often targeting journalists to advance their causes. It considers how journalists respond to these efforts, and some of the factors that influence how, in violation of the ideals of journalism but, ironically, in keeping with what we know about newswo…
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