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Conveying Controversial Science: Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" and Popular Science Communication.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conveying Controversial Science: Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" and Popular Science Communication./
Author:	Johnson, Nathan W.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-01B(E).
Subject:	Biology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3595229
ISBN:	9781303404672

Conveying Controversial Science: Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" and Popular Science Communication.
Johnson, Nathan W.

Conveying Controversial Science: Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" and Popular Science Communication. - 229 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2013.

The academic literature on science communication widely acknowledges a problem: science communication between experts and lay audiences is important, but it is not done well. General audience popular science books, however, carry a reputation for clear science communication and are understudied in the academic literature. For this doctoral dissertation, I utilize Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape, a general audience science book on the particularly thorny topic of neuroscientific approaches to morality, as a case-study to explore the possibility of using general audience science books as models for science communication more broadly. I conduct a literary analysis of the text that delimits the scope of its project, its intended audience, and the domains of science to be communicated. I also identify seven literary aspects of the text: three positive aspects that facilitate clarity and four negative aspects that interfere with lay public engagement. I conclude that The Moral Landscape relies on an assumed knowledge base and intuitions of its audience that cannot reasonably be expected of lay audiences; therefore, it cannot properly be construed as popular science communication. It nevertheless contains normative lessons for the broader science project, both in literary aspects to be salvaged and literary aspects and concepts to consciously be avoided and combated. I note that The Moral Landscape 's failings can also be taken as an indication that typical descriptions of science communication offer under-detailed taxonomies of both audiences for science communication and the varieties of science communication aimed at those audiences. Future directions of study include rethinking appropriate target audiences for science literacy projects and developing a more discriminating taxonomy of both science communication and lay publics.

ISBN: 9781303404672Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018625
Biology, General.

Conveying Controversial Science: Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" and Popular Science Communication.
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