Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
Public Underst Sci. 2021 Aug;30(6):708-723. doi: 10.1177/09636625211013513. Epub 2021 May 16.
In recent years, a Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged in public discourse as a narrative of exceptional societal disruption. At the core of this conceptual construct, led by the World Economic Forum, rests a sociotechnical imaginary of future essentialism, based on the revolutionary potential of digital, biological and physical innovations. This article addresses the lack of studies assessing the dynamics between the institutionalisation and the public performance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept through news media. We present the results of a quantitative content analysis of how the topic has been covered (frames, sources, tone) by the Portuguese national circulation press (2013-2020). This exploratory case study informs a proposal for an epistemic and methodological articulation between the theoretical frameworks of sociotechnical imaginaries and of media framing.
近年来，第四次工业革命在公共话语中出现，被描述为一种具有特殊社会颠覆性的叙事。在世界经济论坛的引领下，这个概念构建的核心是基于数字、生物和物理创新的革命性潜力的未来本质主义的社会技术想象。本文通过新闻媒体研究了第四次工业革命概念在制度和公众表现之间的动态关系的缺乏。我们展示了对葡萄牙全国发行的新闻媒体（2013-2020 年）对该主题的报道（框架、来源、语气）进行定量内容分析的结果。这个探索性案例研究为社会技术想象和媒体框架的理论框架之间的认识论和方法论结合提供了建议。
