nyilvános rituálék
A phd kutatásom, aminek a témája a tudománykommunikáció képen és részvételiségen alapuló, kortárs művészetre támaszkodó formátumai. A konklúzióban írok a cancel culture-ről, mint nyilvános rituáléról amely érzést kapcsol ideológiához, hasonlóan sok tudománykommunikációs eseményhez.
Future research should explore the role of affective energies attached to ‘progress’ and the sense of superiority, in order to explore through what mechanisms ideology still retains its affective charge. Regarding my case studies, I suspect public rituals of science communication imbue ideology with sentiments and affects, but this should be investigated further with empirical accounts from other research sites.82 As I explored in Chapter 2.4 and Chapter 2.5, a substantial amount of research and invention has moved beyond a mechanical, Newtonian worldview and modernist notions of progress, yet due to complex economic and political interests, the public sphere is still structured along modernist binaries. The modernist, teleological notion of progress used to rely on science both for legitimacy and positive sentiments and affects. I would argue
82 I suspect cancel culture has a similar effect. See Fero and Bajusz 2021, Bajusz forthcoming.
that in some instances novel formats of science communication (as public rituals) assume these roles of science. I emphasize again how in the case of my research subjects, science communication (an assumedly constructivist and rational discipline) created emergent group subjects who wanted to extend their life-worlds to others, although more ethnographically focused research would be needed to explore such dynamics. Overall, I stress the need for comparative, empirically focused research on novel science communication formats.
To draw an overall conclusion, I would like to emphasise again that science communication is intended to transmit information, educate, and raise awareness of science and technology. The media I researched had a different effect through traits borrowed from art. This aspect is highly relevant not only to science communicators, but also to policymakers and legislators. Unlike artists, political movements stake claims for power, and yet through such media as described they can present their activity as being outside the domain of politics, whilst still having a political impact on an affective, ideological, institutional, intersubjective and subjective level. Novel formats of science communication have been referred to as a ‘political laboratory’ (Elam 2010), or even ‘political communication’ (Scheufele 2014), yet my research shows this might not be overall a positive development, and addressing policymakers and other professionals, I would argue for more autonomous science communication, especially regarding its new media based, visual and participatory formats.
