Claire R. McInerney,
Ph.D.
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND WEBSITE QUALITY IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
2005-2007
Food Biosecurity: Modeling the Health, Economic, Social and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintentional Food Contamination
Dr. William Hallman, Principal Investigator
United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research and Extension Service USDA-CSREES-2005-51-110-02-335
The goal of this project is to ensure food biosecurity by significantly enhancing the effectiveness of threat prevention, threat response, risk management and communication and public education efforts. It does so by creating a multidisciplinary understanding of the parameters of the problem so as to anticipate, understand, manage, and communicate about the potential consequences of food contamination.
Objective 3. Explore the impacts of media coverage of food contamination on consumer understanding and actions. To do so, we will:
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Assess the nature, content and accuracy of coverage of food biosecurity in general and coverage of specific incidents of food contamination in the print and television media;
Assess the quality of the online materials and sites available to consumers regarding food biosecurity issues.
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2001-2005
Evaluating Consumer
Acceptance of Food Biotechnology in the United
States
Dr. William
Hallman, Principal Investigator
United States
Department of Agriculture, Initiative for the Future of Agricultural Food
Systems (IFAFS) grant #2002-52100-11203
How is the
knowledge gained by research scientists shared with the general public?
There are a number of venues the public uses to gain information that
eventually becomes integrated as knowledge: broadcast media, newspapers,
magazines, and the Internet. The discourse in these venues on the topic of
genetically modified food was analyzed by a team of researchers at
the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) at
Rutgers University in conjunction with the Food Policy Institute and other
researchers at universities in the US and in
Europe.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
USA
4 Huntington Street,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901
Tel: 732-932-7500 Extension 8218; Fax: 732-932-2644
Office: SCILS 330 Email:
clairem at rutgers.edu
© 2007