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"In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable to it as a scientific discourse. While mathematical arguments provide precise prompts for physical intervention in the world, the imaginary that supplements mathematical argument within string theory technical discourse allows theorists to imagine themselves interacting with the cosmos as an abstract space in such a way that strings and branes as phenomena become substantiated and legitimized. And it is precisely this sort of imaginary--which Miller calls a scientific imaginary--duly substantiated and acculturated, that survives the move from string theory technical discourse to popularizations and ultimately to popular and literary discourses. In effect, a string theory imaginary legitimizes the science itself and helps to facilitate a virtual domestication of a cosmos that was heretofore remote, alien, and incomprehensible"--

Science --- String models. --- Science in popular culture. --- Physics --- Language. --- Philosophy.

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Théâtre et science font bon ménage, de l’Antiquité jusqu’aux pièces couronnées aux Molières. Mais, dans la pratique, comment faire se rencontrer sur scène sciences et théâtre ? Cet ouvrage témoigne du caractère spécifique de l’exploration scénique des mondes de la science tout en rendant accessibles à tous types de publics les enjeux de la recherche. Au travers d’une variété d’expérimentations, du Laos à Avignon, ce livre polyphonique donne la parole autant aux femmes et aux hommes de la scène qu’à plusieurs universitaires autour d’une vision plurielle du théâtre de science. Laissons-nous guider dans la découverte de ces voies surprenantes d’une synergie créative entre scientifiques et professionnels du théâtre.

Science and the arts --- Science --- Science in popular culture --- Performing arts. --- Social aspects.

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"This timely and accessible text shows how portrayals of science in popular media - including television, movies, and social media - influence public attitudes around messages from the scientific community, affect the kinds of research that receive support, and inform perceptions of who can become a scientist. The book builds on theories of cultivation, priming, framing, and media models while drawing on years of content analyses, national surveys, and experiments. A wide variety of media genres - from Hollywood blockbusters and prime time television shows to cable news channels and satirical comedy programs, science documentaries and children's cartoons to Facebook posts and YouTube videos - are explored with rigorous social science research and an engaging, accessible style. Case studies on climate change, vaccines, genetically modified foods, evolution, space exploration, and forensic DNA testing are presented alongside reflections on media stereotypes and disparities in terms of gender, race, and other social identities. Science in the Media illuminates how scientists and media producers can bridge gaps between the scientific community and the public, foster engagement with science, and promote an inclusive vision of science, while also highlighting how readers themselves can become more active and critical consumers of media messages about science. Science in the Media serves as a supplemental text for courses in science communication and media studies, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with publicly engaged science"--

Science in mass media --- Communication in science --- Science in popular culture --- Science in mass media. --- Communication in science. --- Science in popular culture. --- Sciences dans la culture populaire. --- Sciences --- Information scientifique. --- Dans les médias.

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This book shows readers how the arts of improvisational theater and acting can help scientists and other experts speak about technical research to lay audiences. Focused on public speaking, this book translates the principles and processes used by actors and other theater professionals into a method for communicating science to the general public. The book is structured as a step-by-step examination of how to write an effective speech and then a guide to carefully analyzing that speech as an actor does in rehearsal before finally sharing it with an audience as a performance. In other words, the book helps science communicators identify what to say and how to say it. This book also includes prompts and exercises that the author has used in classes and workshops with scientists. David Dannenfelser teaches in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (USA) and regularly runs classes and workshops where scientists practice acting skills tobecome better science communicators and public speakers. .

Mass communications --- communicatie --- Communication in science. --- Communication. --- Science in popular culture. --- Science Communication. --- Media and Communication. --- Public Understanding of Science.