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Dr. Martin Döring
Dr. Martin Döring is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Geography at Hamburg University. His research focuses on the public perception of climate change, the use of metaphor in Synthetic and Systems Biology and methods in Qualitative Research.
Lego bricks, program coding and text editing: how metaphors in the press shape the perception of science
Our language is suffused with metaphors, and – often without even realizing it – these metaphors influence the way we perceive things. But what do the metaphors used when talking about a certain area of science reveal about how we perceive this field? A study recently published in Life Sciences, Society and Policyattempts to answer this question for the field of synthetic biology, using a novel combination of metaphor and co-occurrence analysis to systematically examine implications in linguistic images in the news coverage on synthetic biology.
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