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Nauka a media. Wybrane sposoby prezentowania elementów systemu naukowego we współczesnych środkach masowego przekazu
Science and Media. Selected Ways of Presentation of Scientific System in Contemporary Channels of Mass Communication

Author(s): Łukasz Jach
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: autopoietic systems; image of science; television; popular science magazines; Internet

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary times science takes more and more important position. Scientific topics are interesting not only for professional researchers, but also for wide groups of people who wave contact with them via modern media. The problem is that the view of science in TV, press or the Internet is commonly distorted. Media show scientific area as something what is easy to understand and full of intuitive or absolutely sure results, which are very easy to apply. One of the consequences of described situation can be replacing another subsystems of contemporary society (e.g. religion, law, family, economy) by the scientific system. The article shows set of examples of problematic ways of presentation science, scientists and the results of scientific researches. The main theoretical background of presented considerations are the concepts of Niklas Luhmann, Jozef Życiński, Michael Hanlon and John Brockman.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44 (1)
  • Page Range: 233-250
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish