La construcción periodística de la ciencia a través de los medios de comunicación social: hacia una taxonomía de la difusión del conocimiento científico

Abstract

Scientific facts are broadcasted through the media are part of the cultural heri-tage of this Society. In Spain, the presence of scientific content in audiovisual media is scarce. By the way, on press, are more elaborate, and the tendency is to give more coverage to scientific news, for reasons we’ll argüe throughout this paper. It’s important fact to assess the construction process of science journalism media and the process of recontextualization of speech, once stories will be moved from the scientific press to the media. In this article we propose a taxonomy of forms of broadcast scientific facts through the media. After analyzing television news stories for a decade, the classification of diffusion models is as follows: a) science as culture; b) science as a public service; c) science as spectacle; d) science as an adornment; e) science and controversy; f) science fiction.