Overview
- Shows how research & science can be brought to the general public
- How can humor be used as science communication?
- Among others with contributions between criticism and cabaret
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About this book
"Can science be funny?" takes a close look at an element of modern science communication that is as innovative as it is promising for the future: comedy!
Readers are guided through vividly presented academic theory as well as exciting hands-on and best practice examples from renowned practitioners and cabaret artists:
- What do sheep's cheese and car tires have in common?
- Can laughter break down walls?
- How does "Die Anstalt" work?
- How does magic create knowledge?
- Is there humor in museums?- When a Dalmatian comes to the cash register
- Three steps to humor
- Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit
- dictatorship of stupidity
- And much more!
But it's not all just funny. Comedy can also take away some of the biting sharpness of criticism, making it digestible, even palatable, for the addressees.
"Can Science Be Funny?" navigates between criticism and cabaret, tackling comedy in various guises from different perspectives.
22 contributions show how the results of science, research and technology can be brought to the general public in new ways. In particular, they also demonstrate how humour can be used as a critical and questioning force - valuable for all types of communication and helpful so that they come across more shrewdly in the future.
The translation was done with the help of the artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The text has subsequently been revised further by the original editors in order to refine the work stylistically.
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Front Matter
Reviews
“Can Science be Witty? is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in many a moon. Its clichéd lack of academic self-awareness, lamentable English and spindly humour mean that the book inadvertently provides a positive answer to the question of its title. Oscar Wilde must be turning in his grave.” (The Bay Magazine, theswanseabay.co.uk, May, 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Marc-Denis Weitze is head of the thematic area of technology communication at the office of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in Munich. He teaches as a private lecturer for science communication at the TU Munich and is working on a career as a science cabaret artist.
Wolfgang Chr. Goede is a political scientist and communications expert and works as an international science journalist as well as an author, lecturer and facilitator on the scientific and technological hot topics of our time.
Wolfgang M. Heckl is Professor of Experimental Physics and conducts research in the field of nanoscience and science communication. He is General Director of the Deutsches Museum and holds the Oskar von Miller Chair for Science Communication at the TU Munich School of Education.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Can Science Be Witty?
Book Subtitle: Science Communication Between Critique and Cabaret
Editors: Marc-Denis Weitze, Wolfgang Chr. Goede, Wolfgang M. Heckl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65753-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-65752-2Published: 02 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-65753-9Published: 01 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Popular Culture , Media and Communication, Communication Studies, Popular Science in Technology, Popular Life Sciences