Volume index - Journal index - Article index - Map ---- Back

Comunicar Journal 19: Communication and Popularization of Science (Vol. 10 - 2002)

Science popularization in TV programs

https://doi.org/10.3916/C19-2002-08

Juan-Francisco Gutiérrez-Lozano

Abstract

Nowadays, the programme planning of nationwide Spanish television does not contain, contrary to previous decades, popular programmes of relevance for the popularization science. This situation is specially painful in the relation to the children and adolescent audience who are forced to the exclusive comsuption of cartoons, quizshows, series of fiction... of low standard contents. The free access and quality popularization programmes have been left behind, broadcasted in second order public channels and in minority audience´s timetables. In this background, the different offers of payasyouview television satisfy the curiosity of citizens interested in science.

Keywords

Television, science popularization, programming, childhood, youth

PDF file in Spanish

References

BAGET, J.M. (1993): Historia de la televisión en España: 1956- 1975. Barcelona, Feed-back.

DE ESPAÑA, R. (2001): La caja de las sorpresas. Una historia personal de la televisión. Barcelona, Planeta; 89.

KING, K.P. (2000): «Educational televisión: let´s explore science», en Journal of Science Education and Technology, 9, 3; 227-246.

ORTEGA, M.L. y ALBERTOS, A. (1998): La ciencia en Televisión Española: primeros acercamientos a la divulgación, Secuencias, 8; 61-74.

RICO, L. (1998): TV, fábrica de mentiras. Madrid, Espasa.

TOHARIA, M. (1990): La ciencia en televisión, Arbor, 136; 534- 535.