The article is devoted to identifying specifics of modern popular science media discourse. authors conduct a comparative communicative-pragmatic and stylistic analysis composition, speech means discursive techniques educational radio programs which have such feature as explicated dialogicality — representing conversation between journalist an expert. leading principle program dialogization: act...

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 whi...

Two of a number of hypotheses loosely referred to as the CSI Effect suggest that the television program and its spin-offs, which wildly exaggerate and glorify forensic science, affect the public, and in turn affect trials either by (a) burdening the prosecution by creating greater expectations about forensic science than can be delivered or (b) burdening the defense by creating exaggerated fait...

This thesis reformulates foundational issues in science studies by developing an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of popular science texts. In particular, the ‘demarcation problem’ in the philosophy of science is addressed by examining the role of popular science in determining what ‘science’ is taken to mean at any moment. The relation of scientific practice to the culture in which...