Gitte Meyer
Associate professor
Department of Business and Politics
Copenhagen Business Academy
Denmark
Biography
" Journalistic practice 1973-2000 focusing on science- and technology-related issues. Ph.d. in 2004 – dissertation on the science-journalism relationship: Offentlig fornuft? Videnskab, journalistik og samfundsmæssig praksis. Research within the fields of science communication ethics and the philosophy of journalism supported by grants from the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities (FKK) and has taken place at CBS, The University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University. The attachment to CBS Center for Civil Society Studies provides an ideal setting for enquiry into the various possible connections between the notions and phenomena of ‘civil society’ and ‘knowledge societies’."
Research Interest
" Civil society and intellectual life Science in society The philosophy of journalism"
Publications
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" Gitte Meyer; Anker Brink Lund / Almost Lost in Translation : Tale of an Untold Tradition of Journalism. In: Retelling Journalism: Conveying Stories in a Digital Age. . ed. /Marcel Broersma; Chris Peters. Leuven : Peeters 2014, p. 27-45 (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, Vol. XLIX)"
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" Gitte Meyer / Expectations and Beliefs in Science Communication : Learning from Three European Gene Therapy Discussions of the Early 1990s. In: Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2016, p. 317–331"
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" Gitte Meyer / Fascinating! Popular Science Communication and Literary Science Fiction : The Shared Features of Awe and Fascination and Their Significance to Ideas of Science Fictions as Vehicles for Critical Debate About Scientific Enterprises and Their Ethical Implications. In: Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition. ed. /Christian Baron; Peter Nicolai Halvorsen; Christine Cornea. Cham : Springer 2017, p. 59-80"
