Non-scientific information about science in the dynamics of information and memory
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https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v3i3.797Keywords:
Information, non-scientific information, remake, memory, science-fictionAbstract
This paper raises issues related to specific cultural products – science fiction movies - and analyzes them in the light of the field of information science. It questions the role of science in the context of fiction and information. It intends to establish the status of a piece of fictional information about science. We believe that the dynamics of the memory of the genre is related to the very dynamics of non-scientific information about science. We analyze movie remakes, and take each movie as a moment of a major narrative about the subject science. The approach of knowledge from the point of view of fictional creation, considering information as a structuring element of a discursive phenomenon of the movie culture, is analyzed in the context of cultural dynamics and a praxis of memory. We assume that remakes, by presenting different versions of the same fictional narrative, reorganize facts that had been presented in the first version, aiming at achieving a balance between new and already seen. We present the analyses that have been performed for two movies: Time Machine (1960, 2002) and War of the Worlds (1952, 2005) taking science and the actor as reference, and we highlight some features of this type of information.
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2009-09-30
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de Oliveira, C. I. C. (2009). Non-scientific information about science in the dynamics of information and memory. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v3i3.797
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