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SUMMARY:Performing and mediating science on television - Tim Boon (Science
  Museum\, London)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:This year\, in a string of linked papers provoked by my work o
 n the early history of _Horizon_\, I have been exploring questions relatin
 g to the human mediation of science on screen. In this presentation featur
 ing a selection of clips from 1950s and 1960s television\, including _Hori
 zon_ and _Eye on Research_\, I ask who speaks on behalf of science\, what 
 kinds of people they are\, and what kind of performance it is when they ta
 lk of science. Here I draw on literature in media studies as well as prima
 ry documents from the BBC Archives. (See Boon\, T\, '"The televising of sc
 ience is a process of television": establishing _Horizon_\, 1962–1967'\,
  _The British Journal for the History of Science\, FirstView_ (2014)\, 1
 –35 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087414000405 )
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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