Massimiano Bucchi

Science and the Media (eBook, ePUB)

Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. Bucchi's theories on scientific communication in the media make a valuable contribution to the current debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134657407
• Artikelnr.: 38255617

Autorenporträt

Massimiano Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at the University of Trento, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1 The canonical account 1.2 The social representation of
scientific theories 1.3 A communication continuum 1.4 Cognitive
trajectories and their obstacles 1.5 The popular stage and its implications
2. When Scientists turn to the public 2.1 When scientists turn to the
public 2.2 Metaphors, paradoxes and boundary objects in public
communication of science 2.3 Metaphors in science 2.4 Constitutive and
popular metaphors 2.5 Metaphors and paradoxes 2.6 Paradox in science 2.7
Boundary objects 3. Case studies 3.0 Preliminary remarks 3.1 Making and
unmaking science in public: The Cold Fusion case 3.1.1 Not just 'hyped'
science 3.1.2 Signs of (con) fusion 3.1.3 Cold fusion and public
communication 3.1.4 Cold fusion and the Italian daily press 3.1.5 In and
out of the public level 3.1.6 The ways of deconstruction Appendix A
Appendix B Illustrations 3.2 A public explosion: Big Bang Theory in the UK
daily press 3.2.1 A public explosion 3.2.2 A brief history of the universe
3.2.3 COBE takes off 3.2.4 More than a Big Bang 3.2.5 Big Bang and the
public 3.2.6 Crisis, what crisis? 3.2.7 Big Bang as a boundary object 3.3
The public science of Louis Pasteur: The public experiment on anthrax in
the popular press of the time 3.3.1 Prologue: A short story of the
Pouilly-le-Fort trial 3.3.2 A celebrated experiment 3.3.3 The law of
similars 3.3.4 On animals, for animals 3.3.5 The medical congress 3.3.6
Homeopathy and vivesection 3.3.7 The vaccination debate 3.3.8 The uses of a
public experiment 4. Lines and tensions 4.1 Deviation as an exposure of the
backstage 4.2 Public communication and boundary configurations 4.3 Mapping
deviation 4.4 The second axis References