Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Baptiste Gouyon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Baptiste |
| FAMILY NAME | Gouyon |
| SIGNATURE | GOUYON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London (UCL), UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2379-0853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Living in an intermedial world: Intermediality as a methodology of historical inquiry to uncover the social dimension of science communication
Audiences for science in the media live and operate, as agents who endow science with social and cultural meanings, in an intermedial world. Following cultural tracers through time and across media, and attending to a key actors’ category, intermediality, historians of the public culture of science can access the social dimension of the mediation of science. Adopting an intermedial approach allows us to attune the historiography of the public cul…
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’
Bruce Lewenstein is Professor of Science Communication in the Department of Science and Technology studies and the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Editor of Public Understanding of Science from 1998 to 2003, Lewenstein looks back at his tenure in the following interview, highlighting the debate he prompted early on in the journal’s pages about science centers, but also regretting not devoting more space to constructing bridges …
BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough
From engaged citizen to lone hero: Nobel Prize laureates on British television, 1962–2004
Between 1962 and 2004, Nobel Prize laureates appear in the British television science programme Horizon in various roles, denoting differing understandings of science in relation to society and culture. These representations are the outcome of an interplay of cultural and institutional factors. They vary with the broadcasting environment. Notably, the article establishes that the choice of presenting scientists as heroic characters in strongly de…
Scientists can’t do science alone, they need publics
In the spirit of Massimiano Bucchi's inaugural editorial in this journal (Bucchi, 2016), this short piece is intended as a glance to past PUS scholarship, in order to feed in current debates taking place in the field.For this first 'historical moment in PUS', I have chosen to focus on the year 1985, and what some of the literature published that year can tell us about the phrase 'science in public'.It has become customary, at least in the UK, to …
Science and film-making
The essay reviews the literature, mostly historical, on the relationship between science and film-making, with a focus on the science documentary. It then discusses the circumstances of the emergence of the wildlife making-of documentary genre. The thesis examined here is that since the early days of cinema, film-making has evolved from being subordinate to science, to being an equal partner in the production of knowledge, controlled by non-scien…
Making science at home: Visual displays of space science and nuclear physics at the Science Museum and on television in postwar Britain
The public presentation of science and technology in postwar Britain remains a field open to exploration. Current scholarship on the topic is growing but still tends to concentrate on the written word, thus making theorizing, at this stage, difficult. This paper is an attempt to expand the literature through two case studies that compare and synthesize displays of scientific and technological knowledge in two visual media, the Science Museum and …
Questioning the Science/Religion Distinction
Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion, by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, 201 pp., $28.00/£25.00 (hardback). Religion can b
From Kearton to Attenborough: Fashioning the Telenaturalist's Identity
The BBC Natural History Unit: Instituting Natural History Film-Making in Britain
Cameras have revealed how elephants are able to get a drink of fresh water when faced with a stagnant waterhole.A BBC team discovered that the tusked giants use their trunks to delicately siphon off clean liquid that has settled at the top of the dirty pool.The footage shows how the elephants move incredibly slowly to avoid stirring up any sediment.The Natural History Unit team said this was the first time that they had seen this resourceful beha…
Digital conservation
From Kearton to Attenborough: Fashioning the Telenaturalist's Identity
The BBC Natural History Unit: Instituting Natural History Film-Making in Britain
Cameras have revealed how elephants are able to get a drink of fresh water when faced with a stagnant waterhole.A BBC team discovered that the tusked giants use their trunks to delicately siphon off clean liquid that has settled at the top of the dirty pool.The footage shows how the elephants move incredibly slowly to avoid stirring up any sediment.The Natural History Unit team said this was the first time that they had seen this resourceful beha…
Digital conservation
From Kearton to Attenborough: Fashioning the Telenaturalist's Identity
The BBC Natural History Unit: Instituting Natural History Film-Making in Britain
Cameras have revealed how elephants are able to get a drink of fresh water when faced with a stagnant waterhole.A BBC team discovered that the tusked giants use their trunks to delicately siphon off clean liquid that has settled at the top of the dirty pool.The footage shows how the elephants move incredibly slowly to avoid stirring up any sediment.The Natural History Unit team said this was the first time that they had seen this resourceful beha…
Questioning the Science/Religion Distinction
Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion, by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, 201 pp., $28.00/£25.00 (hardback). Religion can b
Making science at home: Visual displays of space science and nuclear physics at the Science Museum and on television in postwar Britain
The public presentation of science and technology in postwar Britain remains a field open to exploration. Current scholarship on the topic is growing but still tends to concentrate on the written word, thus making theorizing, at this stage, difficult. This paper is an attempt to expand the literature through two case studies that compare and synthesize displays of scientific and technological knowledge in two visual media, the Science Museum and …
Scientists can’t do science alone, they need publics
In the spirit of Massimiano Bucchi's inaugural editorial in this journal (Bucchi, 2016), this short piece is intended as a glance to past PUS scholarship, in order to feed in current debates taking place in the field.For this first 'historical moment in PUS', I have chosen to focus on the year 1985, and what some of the literature published that year can tell us about the phrase 'science in public'.It has become customary, at least in the UK, to …
Science and film-making
The essay reviews the literature, mostly historical, on the relationship between science and film-making, with a focus on the science documentary. It then discusses the circumstances of the emergence of the wildlife making-of documentary genre. The thesis examined here is that since the early days of cinema, film-making has evolved from being subordinate to science, to being an equal partner in the production of knowledge, controlled by non-scien…
From engaged citizen to lone hero: Nobel Prize laureates on British television, 1962–2004
Between 1962 and 2004, Nobel Prize laureates appear in the British television science programme Horizon in various roles, denoting differing understandings of science in relation to society and culture. These representations are the outcome of an interplay of cultural and institutional factors. They vary with the broadcasting environment. Notably, the article establishes that the choice of presenting scientists as heroic characters in strongly de…
BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’
Bruce Lewenstein is Professor of Science Communication in the Department of Science and Technology studies and the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Editor of Public Understanding of Science from 1998 to 2003, Lewenstein looks back at his tenure in the following interview, highlighting the debate he prompted early on in the journal’s pages about science centers, but also regretting not devoting more space to constructing bridges …
Living in an intermedial world: Intermediality as a methodology of historical inquiry to uncover the social dimension of science communication
Audiences for science in the media live and operate, as agents who endow science with social and cultural meanings, in an intermedial world. Following cultural tracers through time and across media, and attending to a key actors’ category, intermediality, historians of the public culture of science can access the social dimension of the mediation of science. Adopting an intermedial approach allows us to attune the historiography of the public cul…
Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History of Science and Natural History (4 works) · Science communication (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Science education (3 works)