A critical look at the study of the relationships between disasters, media, knowledge, power and society
Journal Title: Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad - Year 2017, Vol 9, Issue 17
Abstract
this paper constitutes a critical approach to i) the definition of a study object regarding the relationships between disasters, media, types of knowledge, power, and society and ii) some perspectives for the analysis of this study object. For this purpose, we used an excerpt from Michel Foucault’s work (and other works about this author), especially some texts published at the end of his life that revisit Immanuel Kant's question—raised two hundred years earlier—about what Enlightenment is. This process lead to a reflection that contributes to denaturalizing specific aspects of such study object and perspectives. The first section of the article is an introduction to the field of communication studies and their role in the relations between media, knowledge, and power, mainly in disaster situations. Second, emphasis is placed on the (sub)field of public communication of science and technology and its role in the relations between disasters, types of knowledge, power, and society. In sum, it is a question of identifying what Foucault's ideas can contribute to these standpoints and, if possible, to dialogue with them.
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Daniel Hermelin
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