Science on the Ropes Decline of Scientific Culture in the Era of Fake News /

• Main Author: Elías, Carlos (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Technology.; Mass media.; Communication.; Engineering-Vocational guidance.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Popular Science in Technology.; Media Sociology.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.

In this controversial essay, Carlos Elías addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of Western countries. The rise and influence of magic and irrationality in the media, in social networks and at universities is a disturbing phenomenon: many Western...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preparing the trip
• Why is there a decline in science
• An economic system that strangles science
• Films and television in the collapse of the science culture
• Postmodern philosophy, university and academic power in favor of irrationality
• Literary (and mythological) hegemony vs. scientific decadence
• Science in the art
• Journalistic (and media) culture and the collapse of science popularization
• Impact Journals and Science
• Scientific language locked in the closet
• Where does it take us to strangle reason and science?- Epilogue.