Key references for this episode are: 
Brossard, Dominique, and Bruce Lewenstein. “A Critical Appraisal of Models of Public Understanding of Science: Using Practice to Inform Theory.” In Communicating Science: New Agendas in Communication, 11–39, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203867631.
Kahan, Dan M., Asheley Landrum, Katie Carpenter, Laura Helft, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. “Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing.” Political Psychology 38 (February 1, 2017): 179–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12396.
Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project. “How Americans Get Science News and Information,” September 20, 2017. https://www.journalism.org/2017/09/20/science-news-and-information-today/.
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