[ecrea] CFP: Open Cultural Studies special issue

*/Open Cultural Studies/*

New Peer-Reviewed Journal by De Gruyter Open

CFP: *Popular Mediations of Science: Critical perspectives on science 
and its contexts *(Special Issue)

Editors: Dr Maureen Burns & Dr Adam Dodd (The University of Queensland)

This issue provides a collection of critical cultural perspectives on 
popularising science. Many cultural studies scholars use science 
studies, science and technology studies and feminist science studies in 
our work. This issue offers critical cultural studies, communication and 
media studies perspectives specifically on the dissemination of science. 
Instead of exploring the ways that science is communicated to the 
general public, this issue will explore how mediation is intrinsic to 
the core practices of science, and the ways in which popular genres feed 
back into scientific institutions and disciplines.

Using popular media artefacts and methods from critical cultural studies 
and associated disciplines, articles will explore issues around 
scientific disciplines, institutions and publics.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

· Critiques of classical humanism in the sciences;

· The construction and maintenance of scientific publics;

· How the visual mediates scientific practice;

· Aestheticisation within science and of scientific objects of inquiry;

· Science as performative;

· Science experts and celebrities;

· Popular and unpopular science and scientists;

· Science PR and advocacy;

· Depopularising ‘abnormal science’

Titles of proposed articles to date:

Burns, Maureen: “G.O Fizzicle and the Mohole: Comics and the 
International Geophysical

Year”

Dodd, Adam: “Nothing to See Here! How Scientists Attempt to Depopularise 
UFOs”

Freestone, Jamie: “The hidden (variable) sublime: how popular quantum 
physics books don't

explain quantum physics”

Complete papers followed by a short bio should be submitted to Dr 
Maureen Burns at (m.burns2 /at/ uq.edu.au) and (a.dodd /at/ uq.edu.au) by 31 May 2017.​


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