Endnote export

 

%T Ficta: remixing generalized symbolic media in the new scientific novel
%A Brier, Søren
%J Public Understanding of Science
%N 2
%P 153-174
%V 15
%D 2006
%= 2011-03-01T04:00:00Z
%~ http://www.peerproject.eu/
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224040
%X 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.
%G en
%9 journal article
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info