Can Science Be Witty? (eBook, PDF)

Science Communication Between Critique and Cabaret
Redaktion: Weitze, Marc-Denis; Heckl, Wolfgang M.; Goede, Wolfgang Chr.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Can Science Be Witty? takes a close look at an element of modern science communication that is as innovative as it is promising for the future: comedy!

Readers are guided through lucidly presented academic theory as well as exciting hands-on and best-practice examples from renowned practitioners and cabaret artists:

- What do sheep cheese and car tires have in common?

- Can laughter tear down walls?

- How does "Die Anstalt" work?

- How does magic create knowledge?

- Is there humor in museums?

- Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit

- Dictatorship of stupidity

- And much more!

But it's not all just funny. Comedy can also take away some of the biting sharpness of criticism, making it digestible, even palatable, for the addressees.

Can Science Be Witty? navigates between critique and cabaret and deals with comedy in various forms from different perspectives.

22 contributions show how the results of science, researchand technology can be brought to the general public in new ways. In particular, they also demonstrate how humour can be used as a critical and questioning force - valuable for all types of communication and helpful in making them more witty in the future.

The translation was done with the help of the artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The text has subsequently been revised further by the original editors in order to refine the work stylistically.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662657539
• Artikelnr.: 67388303

Autorenporträt

Dr. Marc-Denis Weitze is head of the thematic area of technology communication at the office of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in Munich. He teaches as a private lecturer for science communication at the TU Munich and is working on a career as a science cabaret artist. Wolfgang Chr. Goede is a political scientist and communications expert and works as an international science journalist as well as an author, lecturer and facilitator on the scientific and technological hot topics of our time. Wolfgang M. Heckl is Professor of Experimental Physics and conducts research in the field of nanoscience and science communication. He is General Director of the Deutsches Museum and holds the Oskar von Miller Chair for Science Communication at the TU Munich School of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword.- 1 Getting started.- 2 Science slam about sheep's cheese and car tyres.- 3 Laughter tears down walls.- 4 "Die Anstalt" as an example of criticism, satire and humour in science communication.- 5 A love song.- 6 The paradigm disease: An almost incurable scientific epidemic.7 Scientists, magicians and charlatans - How magic creates knowledge.8 Searching for humour in the Deutsches Museum - An exploration.9 From Big Bang to Big Van.10 If a dalmatian comes to the cash desk.11 Derblecken bei acatech - A humorous joke at acatech. 11 Derblecken bei acatech.- 12 Wit and lightness in science - the international perspective.- 13 "You don't understand science anyway!"- 14 Distance, please!- 15 Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit.- 16 Dictatorship of stupidity.- 17Anecdotes from my physics lessons.- 18 Humour in knowledge transfer - Academic basics with workshop report.- 19 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: An early pioneer of funny science.- 20 Can the Anthropocene be funny? A science comic.- 21 Science cabaret: a script.- 22 Done. Now what?!

Rezensionen

"Can Science be Witty? is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in many a moon. Its clichéd lack of academic self-awareness, lamentable English and spindly humour mean that the book inadvertently provides a positive answer to the question of its title. Oscar Wilde must be turning in his grave." (The Bay Magazine, theswanseabay.co.uk, May, 2023)