Delineamentos discursivos em podcasts de divulgação científica com a temática relatividade

Abstract

A podcast is an audio file transmitted over the internet, composing a media that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, and that covers virtually any subject. In reference to such resources, a documental research was developed, with a qualitative emphasis, with the objective of identifying aspects of scientific knowledge construction in the speeches of two science dissemination podcasts with the theme Theory of Relativity, based on Bruno Latour’s Sociology of Science. In this scope, scientific dissemination podcasts were outlined as educational resources, consistent with a conception of science in construction. Two axes of analysis were defined: allusions to aspects of science construction; allusions to linguistic-conceptual aspects. The main discursive resources identified in the first axis refer to subjects and events; in the second axis, mental models, daily contexts elements, and analogies stand out. Physical concepts were approached in both axes. In parallel, the two selected podcasts use similar resources and ways to address information about science, even when dealing with different subjects, considering that one of the productions focuses on the theory of restricted relativity, while the other also addresses the general theory of relativity.