Bernd Huppauf / Peter Weingart (eds.)

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Herausgeber: Weingart, Peter; Huppauf, Bernd

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and sociology of the sciences explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images that represent the sciences. The essays, most of them with illustrations, present evidence that popular images of the sciences are based upon abstract theories rather than facts, and, equally, images of scientists are stimulated by imagination rather than historical knowledge.

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This book examines how visual media influences public perceptions of science and scientific research in the current context of growing public anxiety about the social impact of that research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780415383813
• ISBN-10: 0415383811
• Artikelnr.: 23593646

Autorenporträt

Peter Weingart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Bernd Huppauf is a Professor at New York University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Images in and of Science 2. Science Images between Scientific Fields and
the Public Sphere: A Historiographical Survey 3. Image Science 4. Popular
Images versus Self-Images of Science: Visual Representations of Science in
Clipart Cartoons and Internet Photographs 5. The Frog's Two Bodies: The
Frog in Science Images 6. Science from Hell: Jack the Ripper and Victorian
Vivisection 7. The Scientist as Personality: Elaborating a Science of
Intimacy in the Nadar/Chevreul Interview (1886) 8. Visual Arguments: The
Role of Images in Sciences and Mathematics 9. Imagination, Multimodality
and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases
of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 10. Neuroscience and
Contemporary Art: An Interview 11. Women Scientists in Mainstream Film:
Social Role Models - A Contribution to the Public Understanding of Science
from the
Perspective of Film Sociology 12. Stereotypes and Images of Scientists in
Fiction Films 13. The Ambivalence Towards New Knowledge: Science in Fiction
Film 14. Unforgettable?: Science, Prosthetic Memory, Film 15. The
Self-Referential Scientist: Narrative, Media, and Metamorphosis in
Cronenberg's The Fly