Popular survey of visual science

"popular" Science.

Reviews of popular science books.

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

Popular Images versus Self-Images of Science

Introduction The public image of almost anything is substantially a visual image. Public discourses are visually mediated, and for most people images sustain when words have long been forgotten. Visual images communicate more readily to the public than other media, and even the written or spoken word translate into visual images in the human imagination. Although it has become the subject of sc...

Typologies of the Popular Science Web Video

The creation of popular science web videos on the Internet has increased in recent years. The diversity of formats, genres, and producers makes it difficult to formulate a universal definition of science web videos since not every producer considers himor herself to be a science communicator in an institutional sense, and professionalism and success on video platforms such as YouTube no longer ...

The return of popular social science ?

The corrosion of character: The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism of ready intelligibility, I believe, usually has little or nothing to do with the complexity of subject matter, and nothing at all to do with profundity of thought. It has to do almost entirely with certain confusions of the academic writer about his own status. Introduction The purpose of this review essay is t...