Die Bewältigung interdisziplinärer Wissenskommunikation im Group Talk

On New Forms of Science Communication and Communication in Science: A Videographic Approach to Visuality in Science Slams and Academic Group Talk

“…To deepen our understanding of such processes, we turn to embodied communicative processes and focus on the understudied area of visuals in inter- and transdisciplinary science communication. We discuss some findings of two different research projects, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), on transdisciplinary science communication (Hill, 2016, 2017) and interdisciplinary communication in science (Lettkemann & Wilke, 2016; Wilke & Lettkemann, 2018; Wilke, Lettkemann, & Knoblauch, 2018). Both terms refer to the communication (and partly intersubjective validation) of scientific knowledge.…”

“…The visual is permanently rethought in the social sciences (see Bachleitner & Weichbold, 2015; Blanc, 2013; Coopmans, Vertesi, Lynch, & Woolgar, 2014; Knoblauch, 2008; Lynch & Woolgar, 1990; Traue, 2013) for the simple reason that visual representational orders change permanently due to the emergence of new representational and communicational devices as well as new forms of (re-)presentation. In the sociology of science debate about the visual, it has recently been stated that in consequence of reflexive scientification and the imperative of inter- and transdisciplinarity, the impact of the visual in science has grown (Beck, 2013; Hill, 2016; Wilke & Lettkemann, 2018). Our own empirical data has shown this to be true.…”

“…One of the reasons for this is that—compared with the conventional lecture—power structures in contemporary science communication have decidedly loosened up. The audience in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts is allowed a voice in its own right, it has its own arguments and own demands, which can easily result in a loss of respect toward the speaker (Wilke & Lettkemann, 2018).…”