Science, Media And Culture: British Magazines, 1890-1914  

Oleh:

Broks, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 2 no. 2 (Apr. 1993), page 123-139.
Fulltext: 123PUS22.pdf (1.35MB)

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The development of a ‘critical‘ approach in media studies has shifted attention from media ‘effacts’ to problems of signification, meaning and consent. Drawing upon work within cultural and media studies this paper examines the science content of British family magazines at the turn of the century. By so doing it places due emphasis upon the cultural context within which popular science was constructed, and reverses the traditional perspective on popular science-that is, looking for science in what was popular rather than for popularity in what was science. A survey of magazines provides evidence of a changing mentality-a shift from Victorian optimism to Edwardian disillusion. The amount of editorial space given over to science fell, with less emphasis on triumphalist technology and more on fedCS of racial degeneration and a return to nature. These issues bring the paper to a consideration of the ‘Edwardian crisis’ brought on by a contracting economy and the perception of lmprrial decline.

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