Nauka a media : wybrane sposoby prezentowania elementów systemu naukowego we współczesnych środkach masowego przekazu

Abstract

In contemporary times science takes more and more important position. Scientific topics are interesting not only for professional researchers, but also for wide groups of people who wave contact with them via modern media. The problem is that the view of science in TV, press or the Internet is commonly distorted. Media show scientific area as something what is easy to understand and full of intuitive or absolutely sure results, which are very easy to apply. One of the consequences of described situation can be replacing another subsystems of contemporary society (e.g. religion, law, family, economy) by the scientific system. The article shows set of examples of problematic ways of presentation science, scientists and the results of scientific researches. The main theoretical background of presented considerations are the concepts of Niklas Luhmann, Józef Życiński, Michael Hanlon and John Brockman.