Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Weingart, Peter; Huppauf, Bernd

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134175819
• Artikelnr.: 38245488

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