SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND THE CINEMATIC ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SCIENCE IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES
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| author | Leah Ceccccarelllli |
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| contents | SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND THE CINEMATIC ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SCIENCE IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES Leah Ceccccarelllli Comunicación science fiction Rhetoric of science frontiers of science public attitudes toward science Public anxiety about emerging biothreats is evident in the recent glut of popular entertainment where the demise, or near demise, of humankind is imagined to be the result of a new infectious pathogen against which science has no existing vaccine or cure. This article examines the figure of the scientist in such fictional narratives and what these characterizations indicate about public attitudes toward science in our contemporary world. It focuses in particular on the image of the scientist as clumsy naïve, immoral experimenter, heroic savior, and self-reflexive ethical agent. 2016 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511754471016 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.6 |
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| spellingShingle | SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND THE CINEMATIC ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SCIENCE IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES Leah Ceccccarelllli Comunicación science fiction Rhetoric of science frontiers of science public attitudes toward science SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND THE CINEMATIC ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SCIENCE IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES Leah Ceccccarelllli Comunicación science fiction Rhetoric of science frontiers of science public attitudes toward science Public anxiety about emerging biothreats is evident in the recent glut of popular entertainment where the demise, or near demise, of humankind is imagined to be the result of a new infectious pathogen against which science has no existing vaccine or cure. This article examines the figure of the scientist in such fictional narratives and what these characterizations indicate about public attitudes toward science in our contemporary world. It focuses in particular on the image of the scientist as clumsy naïve, immoral experimenter, heroic savior, and self-reflexive ethical agent. 2016 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511754471016 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.6 |
| title | SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND THE CINEMATIC ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SCIENCE IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVES |
| topic | Comunicación science fiction Rhetoric of science frontiers of science public attitudes toward science |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511754471016 |