Article ID: CBB916175708

Performing ‘the authoritative account’: How the BBC’s Horizon produces epistemic authority (June 2021)

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Viewers have often looked upon the BBC’s science documentary strand, Horizon, as an authoritative source for scientific knowledge. Through interviews with the series’ producers, this article examines the practices its producers perform to buttress their authority and generate the view that this show is itself a producer of knowledge, even while it is also televising and mediating science. Of particular note are references to science fiction to police boundaries between science and pseudoscience, and the use of original experimental trials to generate witnesses. These position Horizon as at least a node in the network of scientific knowledge production.

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Authors & Contributors
Long, Max
Bond, Bradley J.
Maria Amuchastegui
Hosek, Jennifer Ruth
Sampsa Saikkonen
Thed van Leeuwen
Concepts
Television
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Epistemology
Documentary-style films
Expertise
Communication of Scientific Information
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Italy
Great Britain
Los Angeles (California)
South Africa
Norway
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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