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The Influence of Popular Cultural Imagery on Public Attitudes towards Cloning

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  • Brigitte Nerlich
  • David D. Clarke
  • Robert Dingwall

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This article shows how public attitudes towards cloning and geneticallymodified food and crops are influenced by dystopian science fictionliterature, films, images and metaphors. We analyse a body of textsproduced in the wake of the announcement of the successful cloning of Dollythe sheep by the Roslin Institute in February 1997, using methods fromdiscourse analysis and cognitive semantics. It is hoped that a betterunderstanding of the emergence and structure of lay imagery of issues suchas cloning will facilitate more effective communication between experts, policy makers and citizens.

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  • Brigitte Nerlich & David D. Clarke & Robert Dingwall, 1999. "The Influence of Popular Cultural Imagery on Public Attitudes towards Cloning," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 4(3), pages 251-261, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:4:y:1999:i:3:p:251-261
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.330
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    1. Christopher Benjamin Menadue & Kristi Giselsson & David Guez, 2020. "An Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction: It Is All in the Techne . . ," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(4), pages 21582440209, October.
    2. Craig Morris, 2020. "Medicinal Cannabis Users Downplaying and Shifting Stigma: Articulations of the ‘Natural’, of What Is/Is Not a ‘Drug’ and Oppositions with ‘Chemical’ Substances," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 25(3), pages 350-368, September.
    3. N/A, 2004. "Christine Hine (2004) ‘Social Research Methods and the Internet: A Thematic Review’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 9(2), pages 110-116, May.
    4. Brigitte Nerlich, 2004. "War on foot and mouth disease in the UK, 2001: Towards a cultural understanding of agriculture," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 21(1), pages 15-25, March.
    5. Christopher Benjamin Menadue & Karen Diane Cheer, 2017. "Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016," SAGE Open, , vol. 7(3), pages 21582440177, August.

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