ポップ・サイエンスの系譜(<特集>科学技術ジャーナリズムの課題)
1994 年 8 巻 2 号 p. 145-152
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1994 年 8 巻 2 号 p. 145-152
"Pop-Science" (Popular Science) is a "culture" that does not share the norms of the scientific community. The author believes it was established in the U.S.A. during the 1920s and 1930s when science magazines were published that became the model for the present ones. Several factors have marked the rise of "Pop-Science" the first being the view of technology as "The application of the sciences to the useful arts". The development of electrical engineering by inventors who had not received a university education was another important factor that shaped "Pop-Science". Further, the images given rise to by the so-called "Future Boom" in the 1930s - when much research from industry and academia went along economic policies to stimulate consumption by suggesting images of future cities and consumer durables - were spread by popular science magazines.
