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Science on American television : a history /
As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas-both factual and fictional. Mr. Wizard performed experiments w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013, ©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Inventions and dreams
- Experimenting with illusion
- Elementary education, basic economics
- Dramatizing science
- Taking the audience's pulse
- Saving planet earth: fictions and facts
- Adjusting the lens: documentaries
- Monsters and diamonds: the price of exclusive access
- In splendid isolation: the public's television
- Defining what's new(s) about science
- Entrepreneurial popularization
- Warning: children in the audience
- Rarae aves: television's female scientists
- The Smithsonian's world: exclusivity and power
- All science, all the time.