Genetically modified crops 2.0: The decline of media controversy in digital journalism

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  • Maria Josep Picó Garcés University of Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.3899

Keywords:

digital journalism, environment, GM crops, biotechnology, blogs

Abstract

The controversy over the effects of GM crops on nature and health was one of the most intense media debates of the late twentieth century. Despite the existence of Web 2.0 tools for the transmission of information, the controversy is now declining in digital media, with the exception of France and the United Kingdom, where the debate is still ongoing among citizens and environmental action is constant.

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Author Biography

Maria Josep Picó Garcés, University of Valencia

Journalist. Chair for Scientific Dissemination of the University of Valencia and professor of the Master in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). She is a science communicator and author of several essays. She won the National Environmental Journalism Award.

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Published

2016-04-15

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Picó Garcés, M. J. (2016). Genetically modified crops 2.0: The decline of media controversy in digital journalism. Metode Science Studies Journal, (6), 28–34. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.3899
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