Anders Hansen is a lecturer in mass communications at the University of Leicester and is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Mass Communication Research at this institution. . He has over twenty years of experience in media and communications research with his main research interests include science and health communication, media and the environment, news management and journalistic practices, media/new media activism, media roles in relation to education policy and professional status, and the roles of news and other media (including advertising) in representing and influencing political and social issues. He has published widely in journals and books and regularly referees articles for… academic journals such as Cambridge Journal of Education; The European Journal of Communication; Public Understanding of Science; New Genetics and Society; Environment and History; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; The Communication Review; Political Studies; Health Education Research; Addiction Research and Theory; The British Medical Journal.