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@article{ Brier2006,
 title = {Ficta: remixing generalized symbolic media in the new scientific novel},
 author = {Brier, Søren},
 journal = {Public Understanding of Science},
 number = {2},
 pages = {153-174},
 volume = {15},
 year = {2006},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662506059441},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224040},
 abstract = {This article analyzes the use of fictionalization in popular science communication as                an answer to changing demands for science communication in the mass media. It                concludes that a new genre—Ficta—arose especially with the work                of Michael Crichton. The Ficta novel is a fiction novel based on a real scientific                problem, often one that can have or already does have serious consequences for our                culture or civilization. The Ficta novel is a new way for the entertainment society                to reflect on scientific theories, their consequences and meaning. Jurassic                Park is chosen for an in-depth analysis in order to bring out the essential                characteristics of Ficta, showing how its reflections on complexity, fractals,                self-reference, non-linearity and unpredictability in science transform our view of                scientific knowledge as being the tool for deterministic control into a second order                reflection on complexity and the limits of control and predictability.},
}