Science on American television : a history /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
c2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Inventions and dreams - - Experimenting with illusion - - Elementary education, basic economics - - Dramatizing science - - Taking the audience's pulse - - Saving planet earth : fictions and facts - - Adjusting the lens : documentaries - - Monsters and diamonds : the price of exclusive access - - In splendid isolation : the public's television - - Defining what's new(s) about science - - Entrepreneurial popularization - - Warning : children in the audience - - 'Rarae Aves' : television's female scientists - - The Smithsonian's world : exclusivity and power - - All science, all the time.