Telescópios narrativos : a tessitura da astronomia nas revistas Ciência Hoje, Ciência Hoje das Crianças e Superinteressante

Abstract

The present paper has as its central point a reflection about the public communication of astronomy through a bridge between science and communication, established by the narrative dimension. Such analysis occurs based on the frame view over the texts that deal with the theme astronomy and its technology and applications, in the magazines Superinteressante, Ciência Hoje and Ciência Hoje das Crianças, during a one year period – framework settled to 2009, the International Year of Astronomy. The research points towards the narrativity, centrally using the concepts of Paul Ricoeur and Mikhail Bakhtin. From the narrative dimension, we propose a reading of the debates about astronomy that the selected texts promote – perspective largely driven by theories of Boaventura dos Santos, Jean-François Lyotard and Bruno Latour – that call into question aspects of the contemporary human condition in relation to the structures of science. We also consider the science narratives in reference to the reader, he inserted in the juvenile sphere, conformer of tensions in aspects of the reflection – such as the pedagogical dimension of the texts and of science, or the determining insertion of the curiosity place. Thus, from the produced concept of mimetic translation, our effort is to reflect over, and from astronomy, how and what are the narratives of science produced by the publications.