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The Silences of Science

Author : Felicity Mellor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315609102
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Silences of Science written by Felicity Mellor and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows that silence is more than mere absence. All speech incorporates silence, not only in the gaps between words or the pauses that facilitate turn taking, but in the omissions that result from the necessary selectivity of communicative acts. Thus silence is significant in and of itself; it is a sign that has socially-constructed (albeit context -dependent and ambiguous) meanings. To date, studies of science communication have focussed on what is said rather than what is not said. They have highlighted the content of communication rather than its form, and have largely ignored the gaps, pauses and lacunae that are an essential, and meaningful, part of any communicative act. Both the sociology of science and the history of science have also failed to highlight the varied functions of silence in the practice of science, despite interests in tacit knowledge and cultures of secrecy. Through a range of case studies from historical and contemporary situations, this volume draws attention to the significance of silence, its different qualities and uses, and the nature, function and meaning of silence for science and technology studies.

The Silences of Science

Author : Felicity Mellor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317055039
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Silences of Science written by Felicity Mellor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows that silence is more than mere absence. All speech incorporates silence, not only in the gaps between words or the pauses that facilitate turn taking, but in the omissions that result from the necessary selectivity of communicative acts. Thus silence is significant in and of itself; it is a sign that has socially-constructed (albeit context -dependent and ambiguous) meanings. To date, studies of science communication have focussed on what is said rather than what is not said. They have highlighted the content of communication rather than its form, and have largely ignored the gaps, pauses and lacunae that are an essential, and meaningful, part of any communicative act. Both the sociology of science and the history of science have also failed to highlight the varied functions of silence in the practice of science, despite interests in tacit knowledge and cultures of secrecy. Through a range of case studies from historical and contemporary situations, this volume draws attention to the significance of silence, its different qualities and uses, and the nature, function and meaning of silence for science and technology studies.

The Eerie Silence

Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547488491
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Eerie Silence written by Paul Davies and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded. Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). After a half-century of scanning the skies, however, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence—eerie because many scientists are convinced that the universe is teeming with life. Physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies has been closely involved with SETI for three decades and chairs the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, charged with deciding what to do if we’re suddenly confronted with evidence of alien intelligence. He believes the search so far has fallen into an anthropocentric trap—assuming that an alien species will look, think, and behave much like us. In this provocative book Davies refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if it does.

Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

Author : Roisin Ryan-Flood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134055978
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process written by Roisin Ryan-Flood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions and and political consequences of such moments? What particular dilemmas and constraints do they represent or entail? What are their implications for research praxis? Are such moments always indicative of voicelessness or powerlessness? Or may they also constitute a productive moment in the research encounter? Contributors to this volume were invited to reflect on these questions. The resulting chapters are a fascinating collection of insights into the research process, making an important contribution to theoretical and empirical debates about epistemology, subjectivity and identity in research. Researchers often face difficult dilemmas about who to represent and how, what to omit and what to include. This book explores such questions in an important and timely collection of essays from international scholars.

Silence

Author : Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782387498
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Silence written by Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is implicated in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts.

Qualitative Studies of Silence

Author : Amy Jo Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421377
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Studies of Silence written by Amy Jo Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A qualitative analysis of societal silences, demonstrating how the unsaid directs social action and shapes individual and collective lives.

Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences, Volume 4: S-Z

Author : Albert G. Mackey
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 384968802X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences, Volume 4: S-Z written by Albert G. Mackey and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Albert G. Mackey appears as author of this " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," which, being a library in inself, superseded most of the Masonic works which have been tolerated by the craft — chiefly because none better could be obtained. Here is a work which fulfils the hope which sustained the author through ten years' literary labor, that, under one cover he "would furnish every Mason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his order." Up to the present time the modern literature of Freemasonry has been diffuse, lumbering, unreliable, and, out of all reasonable proportions. There is, in Mackey's "Encyclopaedia of Masonry," well digested, well arranged, and confined within reasonable limits, all that a Mason can desire to find in a book exclusively devoted to the history, the arts, science, and literature of Masonry. This is volume four out of four and covering the letters S to Z.

The Great Silence

Author : Milan M. Ćirković
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199646309
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Great Silence written by Milan M. Ćirković and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. 'Cirkovi? argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or another.

Invisible Labour in Modern Science

Author : Jenny Bangham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538159961
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Labour in Modern Science written by Jenny Bangham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.

Science and Technology Education and Communication

Author : Maarten C. A. van der Sanden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463007385
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology Education and Communication written by Maarten C. A. van der Sanden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science & technology education on the one hand, and communication on the other, are, to a large extent, still separate worlds and many opportunities for synergy and cross-fertilisation are yet unused. This divide is unfortunate, since educators need communication skills and communicators often use aspects of education in their strategies. Moreover, innovation processes in both domains ask for education and communication insights and skills. Therefore, scholars and practitioners in both domains must seek connections and synergy by exchanging insights and ideas. This book discusses the shared aims of science & technology education and communication, such as science literacy and engagement, as well as common processes and challenges, such as social learning, social design and professionalisation, and assessment. Aims, processes, and challenges that inspire, enhance and deepen the education and communication synergy from a theoretical and practical side. If one reads the various chapters and reflects on them from one’s own perspective as a scholar or practitioner, the question is no longer if cross-fertilisation and synergy are needed, but when are we seriously going to take up this challenge together. This book aims to initiate the dialogue that the situation in the development of the topic requires at this point.

Feminist Science Studies

Author : Maralee Mayberry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082814
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Science Studies written by Maralee Mayberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from autobiographical narratives and experimental and theoretical projects, to teaching tools and courses and community-based projects.

Archival Silences

Author : Michael Moss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038523X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Archival Silences written by Michael Moss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the ‘other’, this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences. Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.

Can Science and Technology Save China?

Author : Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747053
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Can Science and Technology Save China? written by Susan Greenhalgh and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects. Focusing on critical domains of daily life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create practical knowledges and innovations, as well as how ordinary people take them up as they pursue the good life. Editors Greenhalgh and Zhang offer a rare, up-close view of the politics of Chinese science-making, showing how everyday logics, practices, and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping contemporary China. By foregrounding the notion of "governing through science," and the contested role of science and technology as instruments of change, this timely book addresses important questions regarding what counts as science in China, what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.

Insights on Science Journalism

Author : Felicity Mellor
Publisher : Journalism Insights
ISBN 13 : 9781032350622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Insights on Science Journalism written by Felicity Mellor and published by Journalism Insights. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, this collection critically examines the features characterising science journalism, paying special attention to the points of tension that science journalists navigate in their work today. Faced with the twin crises of climate change and a global pandemic, science journalism has never before been so prominent. This book showcases perspectives that transcend the particulars of the specific news events and outlets studied, in order to provide an overview of the key areas of scholarly interest regarding the nature of science journalism. The volume is organised into three sections: the first provides historical case studies illustrating the demarcation of science journalism from science, as science journalism emerged as a recognisable news beat in the twentieth century; the second examines the relationship between science journalists and their sources, particularly scientists, and the mediation of this relationship through organisations, foreign journalism, and political constraints; and the final section considers the style and voice of science journalism content. Case studies and original empirical research are compiled from across the globe, including the UK, US, Germany, Vietnam, and Russia, and are synthesised to offer a readable and engaging insight into the beat. Insights on Science Journalism is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers of science journalism and communication and will also appeal to those working in the fields of science and technology studies and risk communication.

Scientific Controversies

Author : Peter K. Machamer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195119878
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Controversies written by Peter K. Machamer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays consider the nature of scientific controversy, how such controversies are resolved, and whether controversy is in fact necessary to the advancement of scientific knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada

Author : Candice Allmark-Kent
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031405560
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada written by Candice Allmark-Kent and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian victimhood. Spanning more than a century, the scope of this book includes classic writers, Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G. D. Roberts, as well as popular contemporary authors, such as Barbara Gowdy, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood, and many others. By recontextualizing these works with closer attention to contemporary scientific and animal advocacy debates, this book offers a fresh new perspective on a wide range of texts.