Search results for "Popular science"
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La investigación teórica sobre la divulgación de la ciencia en España: situación actual y retos para el futuro
2009
Spanish Scientific Research about Popular Science is analyzed to identify the main scientific agents, dissemination means and subjects in this field. It is an heterogeneous area related to several scientific disciplines and purposes, stand out above them Information and Education. 286 journal articles and 50 PhD Thesis have been analyzed, observing a high increase of publications in 90s remaining until now. The five most important research cores identified are the followings: Science Journalism, Science Literacy, Linguistics and the researches related to Museums and Scientific Disciplines such as Medicine, Environment or Archaeology.
Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid
2018
Abstract This study traces popularity-driven coverage of climate change in New Scientist with the special aim of identifying which aspects of the issue have been backgrounded. Unlike institutional communication or quality press coverage of climate change, commercial science journalism has received less attention with respect to how it frames the crisis. Assuming that the construction of newsworthiness in popular science journalism requires eliminating, or at least obscuring, some alienating information, the study identifies prevalent frames, news values and discursive strategies in the outlet’s most-read online articles on climate change (2013–2015). With the official statement of the World…
Entertainment virtual reality system for simulation of spaceflights over the surface of the planet Mars
2006
In recent years Virtual Reality technologies have enabled astronomers to recreate and explore three dimensional structures of the Universe for scientific purposes. Mars, due to its scientific interest,has been the focal point of numerous research projects using these technologies, however, none of these virtual reality tools have been developed specifically for entertainment purposes.The focus of this paper is to present MarsVR, as an entertainment research project that educates people on the topography and orography of the planet Mars from the perspective of popular science. Some projects have been designed MarsVR for entertainment purposes and include the latest advances in 3D real time a…
Las publicaciones divulgativas como vehículo de difusión del patrimonio arqueológico: bibliografía de guías arqueológicas en España 1975-2005
2008
Se realiza una aproximación a las publicaciones de carácter divulgativo como medio para difundir y dar a conocer el patrimonio arqueológico. Para ello, se identifica y caracteriza un determinado género de publicaciones divulgativas: las guías arqueológicas. Se presenta una bibliografía de la literatura de este género publicada a lo largo de las tres últimas décadas en España, analizando la evolución diacrónica del número de publicaciones, la cobertura geográfica, las entidades editoras, la estructura y los contenidos recogidos en este tipo de obras. We analyse Popular Science Archaeological Books as a way of spreading the popularization of archaeological heritage. In that sense, we identifi…
Communicating environmental science beyond academia: Stylistic patterns of newsworthiness in popular science journalism
2017
Science communication in online media is a discursive domain where science-related content is often expressed through styles characteristic of popular journalism. This article aims to characterize some dominant stylistic patterns in magazine articles devoted to environmental issues by identifying the devices used to enhance newsworthiness, given the fact that for some readers environmental topics may no longer seem engaging. The analytic perspective is an adaptation of the newsworthiness framework that has been applied in news discourse studies. The material is a sample of the 38 most-read environment-oriented articles in the online version of the international science magazine New Scientis…
Framing disease, ageing and death in popular science journalism
2016
This paper characterizes the dominant frames in popular science-oriented reports devoted to disease, ageing and death. In popular science journalism, framing often consists in the discursive construction of newsworthiness, i.e., foregrounding features of events/issues considered by science editors to be relevant or attractive for audiences, despite the alienating nature of some types of news. A sample of most-read health-related articles from New Scientist (2013-2015) is subjected to content analysis, keyness analysis, concordance analysis and news value analysis to demonstrate how bioscience tends to be framed through consistent and strategic linguistic choices. The analyses reveal that mo…
Llengües minoritàries i divulgació científica. 'Elhuyar': periodisme i ciència en eusquera.
2014
La revista Elhuyar va naixer el 1974 amb l’objectiu d’adequar l’eusquera a l’ambit cientifi c i tecnic. Des de llavors, la revista s’ha consolidat com una publicacio de divulgacio de la ciencia que concedeix especial rellevancia a la investigacio realitzada al Pais Basc, pero el principal objectiu de la qual es capacitar el lector en la cultura cientifica i, alhora, entretenir-lo.
Col·laboració 2.0: El futur de la divulgació científica
2013
La divulgació científica ha d’afrontar un nou escenari on l’escassetat d’informació ha estat substituïda per l’abundància d’informació, que a més comença a ser generalment gratuïta i produïda per aficionats i, en alguns casos, amb la mateixa o superior qualitat que la professional. Sembla imposar-se, en conseqüència, una col·laboració entre l’àmbit professional i l’aficionat, àmbits separats per una línia divisòria que ja s’ha desdibuixat.