Abstract
The paper presents the results of the research conducted on the extensive corpus of press material. The purpose of the research was to show the frequency of references to the American scientific sources in the Polish press, specifically in popular science articles published in the weekly and daily papers. The analysis covered the period of 1975–2005 (and also the year 2015). The frequency of references to U.S. sources has been contrasted with the results on references to other countries (Poland, the former USSR, and Russia, in particular), as well as with the bibliographic data on the sum of citations of academic papers in individual countries. The research was carried out using quantitative methods (content analysis, bibliographic analysis of citations). The obtained results confirm the preference of the Polish popular science discourse for the sources originating from the Western culture, especially from the United States.
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Key wordsAmericanization, bibliographical rankings of citations, media images of science, scientific output, media persuasion amerykanizacja, bibliograficzne rankingi cytowań, medialne obrazy nauki, dorobek naukowy, perswazja medialna
The paper presents the results of the research conducted on the extensive corpus of press material
In the content analysis employed in this paper, the unit of measurement was a reference, including a place or personal name, the scientific activity of a person or the scientific achievement of a country
Summary
Americanization, bibliographical rankings of citations, media images of science, scientific output, media persuasion amerykanizacja, bibliograficzne rankingi cytowań, medialne obrazy nauki, dorobek naukowy, perswazja medialna. This paper attempts to quantify the presence of references to the scientific output of American scientists presented in the Polish press and to compare it with the presence of the references to the research from other countries, including the former USSR and later Russia. In the content analysis employed in this paper, the unit of measurement was a reference, including a place or personal name, the scientific activity of a person or the scientific achievement of a country Sometimes these references were presented as quotes from a scientist’s publication or in the form of indirect speech (following the schema: “X said that ...” or “According to X, ...”). The most frequently mentioned country was Poland, and the description of Polish scientific achievements was the most popular subject of the press articles, but the references to the United States ranked second. Cold War, the Polish press discourse on scientific achievements remained, to a large extent, “Americanized.”
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