Representation of socioscientific issues in the most popular Turkish daily newspapers
Journal Title: Journal of Human Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 13, Issue 2
Abstract
Socioscientific issues (SSIs) have become important in science education because of their feature of important component of scientific literacy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the representation of SSIs in Turkish national newspapers. The methodology employed in the present study is content analysis. The archives of newspapers were online searched for predetermined SSIs, news titles were categorized according to content and year. And then, samples of news tittle were selected from various newspapers for each issue tittle and were demonstrated with newspaper name and publishing year. The results demonstrated that the most mentioned SSIs are nuclear energy, environmental pollution/problems, and global warming in the last 11 years. Moreover, a steady was seen in the SSIs between 2004 and 2014. Interpretations are given in more detail in results and discussion.
Authors and Affiliations
Nurcan Tekin, Oktay Aslan, Süleyman Yılmaz
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