Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (78th, Washington, DC, August 9-12, 1995). Science Communications Interest Group.

The Science Communication Interest Group section of the proceedings contains the following seven papers: "Using Television to Foster Children's Interest in Science" (Marie-Louise Mares and others); "Trends in Newspaper Coverage of Science over Three Decades: A Content Analytic Study" (Marianne G. Pellechia); "Media Framing, Expert Framing and Public Perception of the Population-Environment Connection" (Mike Maher); "Predictors of Channel Exposure and of Topic-Specific Attention to Messages about Risk" (Nandita Dhume and others); "Who's Listening? And to Whom? Worldviews of Biotechnology Executives and Scientists toward Public Relations and Communication" (b j Altschul); "The Life Course of an Environmental Issue: Claims, Frames, and Global Warming" (Craig Trumbo); and "Risk Perception in Community Context: Evaluating the Psychometric Paradigm and Its Relationship to Risk Amplification and Reported Communication Channel Usefulness" (Craig W. Trumbo). (RS)