Michael Mike
University of Exeter, UK.
Public Underst Sci. 2018 Aug;27(6):731-744. doi: 10.1177/0963662517738149. Epub 2017 Oct 27.
This exploratory article considers the implications of a particular genre - YouTube videos of iPhone destruction - for the Citizen Science and Public Understanding of Science/Public Engagement with Science and Technology. Situating this genre within a broader TV tradition of 'destructive testing' programmes, there is a description of the forms of destruction visited upon the iPhone, and an analysis of the features shared by the videos (e.g. mode of address, enactments of the experiment). Drawing on the notion of the 'idiotic', there is a discussion of the genre that aims to treat its evident lack of scientific and citizenly 'seriousness' productively. In the process of this discussion, the notions of 'feral science' and 'antithetical citizenship' are proposed, and some of their ramifications for Citizen Science and Public Understanding of Science/Public Engagement with Science and Technology presented.
这篇探索性文章探讨了一种特定类型——iPhone破坏的YouTube视频——对公民科学以及公众对科学的理解/公众对科技的参与的影响。将这种类型置于更广泛的“破坏性测试”节目的电视传统中，描述了施加在iPhone上的破坏形式，并分析了这些视频共有的特征（如叙述方式、实验演示）。借鉴“白痴的”这一概念，对这种类型进行了讨论，旨在有效地看待其明显缺乏科学和公民“严肃性”的问题。在这个讨论过程中，提出了“野生科学”和“对立公民身份”的概念，并阐述了它们对公民科学以及公众对科学的理解/公众对科技的参与的一些影响。
