Can science be witty? : science communication between criticism and cabaret / Marc-Denis Weitze, Wolfgang Chr. Goede, Wolfgang M. Heckl, editors.
Weitze, Marc-Denis, editor.; Goede, Wolfgang C., editor.; Heckl, Wolfgang M., editor.
2023
Q223
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Title
Can science be witty? : science communication between criticism and cabaret / Marc-Denis Weitze, Wolfgang Chr. Goede, Wolfgang M. Heckl, editors.
ISBN
9783662657539 (electronic bk.)
3662657538 (electronic bk.)
9783662657522
366265752X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65753-9
Published
Berlin : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-662-65753-9 doi
Call Number
Q223
Dewey Decimal Classification
501/.4
Summary
Can Science Be Witty? 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 lucidly presented academic theory as well as exciting hands-on and best-practice examples from renowned practitioners and cabaret artists: - What do sheep cheese and car tires have in common? - Can laughter tear down walls? - How does "Die Anstalt" work? - How does magic create knowledge? - Is there humor in museums? - 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 Witty? navigates between critique and cabaret and deals with comedy in various forms 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 in making them more witty 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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Goede, Wolfgang C., editor.
Heckl, Wolfgang M., editor.
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Foreword
1 Getting started
2 Science slam about sheep's cheese and car tyres
3 Laughter tears down walls
4 "Die Anstalt" as an example of criticism, satire and humour in science communication
5 A love song
6 The paradigm disease: An almost incurable scientific epidemic.7 Scientists, magicians and charlatans - How magic creates knowledge.8 Searching for humour in the Deutsches Museum - An exploration.9 From Big Bang to Big Van.10 If a dalmatian comes to the cash desk.11 Derblecken bei acatech - A humorous joke at acatech. 11 Derblecken bei acatech
12 Wit and lightness in science - the international perspective
13 "You don't understand science anyway!"- 14 Distance, please!- 15 Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit
16 Dictatorship of stupidity
17Anecdotes from my physics lessons
18 Humour in knowledge transfer - Academic basics with workshop report
19 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: An early pioneer of funny science
20 Can the Anthropocene be funny? A science comic
21 Science cabaret: a script
22 Done. Now what?!

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