Between Fact and Fiction
Between Fact and Fiction
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事实与虚构之间
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2003
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F. Mellor
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F. Mellor
本文着眼于科普书籍，通过其明确的科学插入到公共领域的方式，加强科学家和他们的公众之间的明显分界。有人认为，这些书籍获得了分布式媒体的存在，作为一个互文网络的节点。科普书籍的互文性使得支持科学家利益的科学形象继续在公共话语中传播，尽管新闻报道的公共科学争议引发了另一种形象。本文着眼于流行的物理书籍的例子，像许多其他普及的物理学，明确借鉴科幻小说。由于这些文本不回应任何特定的争议或围绕科学，他们提供了“例行”边界工作的例子。有人认为，通过在多个边界上工作，这些文本能够声称科学的潜在矛盾属性，同时维持其在认知方式层次结构顶端的地位。
This paper looks at the ways in which popular science books, through their explicit insertion of science into the public domain, act to reinforce a distinct demarcation between scientists and their publics. It is argued that these books acquire a distributed media presence by acting as nodal points in an intertextual web. The intertextuality of popular science books causes images of science which are supportive of scientists’ interests to continue to circulate in public discourse despite the alternative images thrown up by public scientific controversies reported in the news. The paper looks at examples of popular physics books which, like many other popularizations of physics, draw explicitly on science fiction. Since these texts do not respond to any specific controversy within or around science, they provide examples of ‘routine’ boundary work. It is argued that by working at multiple boundaries, texts such as these are able to claim potentially contradictory attributes for science at the same time as sustaining its place at the top of a hierarchy of ways of knowing.