Communicating science through competing logics and a science-art lens

Summary, in English

This essay takes a starting point in the well-known tension between the media logic and the scientific logic and the challenges when communicating science in a mediatized society. Building on the experience of engaging in research comics, both as a method for communicating science and a creative example of a meeting between science and art, we introduce a framework — a pedagogical tool — for how science communication can be understood through the two competing logics. We contribute to literature about the balancing act of being a ‘legitimate expert’ and a ‘visible scientist’, and suggest that the meeting between science and art can be understood as a lens for how to communicate science that goes beyond the deficit model.

• Author: Anna Jonsson; Axel Brechensbauer; Maria Grafström
• Department/s: Organizational Studies
• Publishing year: 2022-11-28
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-23
• Publication/Series: Journal of Science Communication
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 7
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.21070401
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Topic: Business Administration
• Keywords: Science and media; Science communication: theory and models; Visual communication; Science and media; Science communication; theory and models; Visual communication
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1824-2049