Astronomy and the Media: a love story?
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2009-06-10 v1 Popular Physics
Abstract
With the availability of nice images and amazing, dramatic stories, the fundamental questions it addresses, and the attraction is exerces on many, it is often assumed that astronomy is an obvious topic for the media. Looking more carefully, however, one realises that the truth is perhaps not as glamorous as one would hope, and that, although well present in the media, astronomy's coverage is rather tiny, and often, limited to the specialised pages or magazines.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.1755,
title = {Astronomy and the Media: a love story?},
author = {Henri M. J. Boffin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1755},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Invited review to appear in The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture: Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 260, 2009. D. Valls-Gabaud and A. Boksenberg, eds