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The Cost of Correction: Scientific Retractions and the Politicization of Science
The Cost of Correction: Scientific Retractions and the Politicization of Science
The Cost of Correction: Scientific Retractions and the Politicization of Science

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202105314
ISBN  
9798265482730
DDC  
384
저자명  
Abhari, Rod M.
서명/저자  
The Cost of Correction: Scientific Retractions and the Politicization of Science
발행사항  
[Sl] : Northwestern University, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
119 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Walter, Nathan.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Scientific retractions, or formal repudiations of published scholarship, have become increasingly prevalent. Because retractions indicate both norm violations and procedural corrections, the rise of retractions can be understood as either institutional dysfunction or progress. In public discourse, including news media, social media, and blogs, the meanings of scientific retractions are negotiated by a variety of communicators. These negotiations take on particular significance in the context of science politicization and media fragmentation, social forces which have undermined the decision-making authority of science. Departing from prior research that has treated the conduct of retractions as a purely technical matter, this dissertation explores how public representations and understandings of retractions reproduce and challenge scientific authority.The first part of the dissertation provides the historical and theoretical foundations of this argument. Tracing the modern history of retractions to highly publicized cases of scientific misconduct in the 1980s, Chapter 2 argues that retractions were standardized as part of a larger strategy to preserve the autonomy of science by demonstrating its capacity for self-correction. Chapter 3 contends that his hard-won autonomy is now under threat from the fragmentation of science enabled by digital transformations in science communication, and the politicization of science, which has been enabled by industry-led efforts to curtail scientific evidence.The second part of the dissertation presents three empirical studies that investigate the public life of retractions across multiple contexts. In a large-scale computational content analysis of over 6,800 news and blog articles about retractions, Chapter 4 finds that storylines that conservative outlets and blogs were more likely to frame retractions as institutional failure, but only when the subject of the retracted article had been politicized. Shifting to social media, Chapter 5 reveals how covid skeptics discussing COVID-19 retractions selectively deployed science skepticism to frame either the original study or the retraction as evidence of institutional corruption, depending on whether the study supported their views. Finally, Chapter 6 evaluates the effect of exposure to retractions of climate change research with different consensus stances and reasons for retraction. It finds that retractions were more detrimental to perceptions of science when the retracted study's initial results affirmed the politicized scientific consensus than when it refuted it. These studies suggest that, rather than assuring the public of the integrity of science, at a time of widespread politicization, retractions may instead be represented by science critics and understood by the broader public as evidence of institutional dysfunction. This indicates the need for greater analytical attention to the reflexive capacity of retraction discussions, the political context of the topic of a retracted study, and the importance of addressing politicization with clear and consistent retraction notices.
일반주제명  
Communication
일반주제명  
Sociology
일반주제명  
Web studies
일반주제명  
Political science
키워드  
Politicization
키워드  
Retractions
키워드  
Science
키워드  
News media
키워드  
Social movements
기타저자  
Northwestern University Media Technology and Society
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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