Introduction: #Storytelling. Science through stories

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  • Bienvenido León University of Navarra (Spain).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.28045

Abstract

The term «storytelling» is now commonplace in journalism: many say that this is what reporting is all about. It is now taken for granted that a piece of news is a narrative text, a story. But the truth is that very few of them are. We live under the rule of a synecdoche (López-Pan, 1997).

It is also common among science communicators to see storytelling as the essence of their work. But again, this narrative model is often referred to imprecisely, which often prevents us from using this resource effectively. A study of scientific video storytelling on the internet found the surprising result that only 5 % of the videos analysed used some form of narrative structure (Davis & León, 2018).

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Author Biography

Bienvenido León, University of Navarra (Spain).

Professor of Science Communication at the University of Navarra (Spain). Founder and coordinator of the Research Group on Science Communication at the University of Navarra. He has written or edited 26 books, and has published over a hundred papers and book chapters in scientific publications. Founder and director of the #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival

References

Dahlstrom, M. F. (2014). Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with non-expert audiences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 111(Suppl. 4), 13614–13620. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320645111

Davis, L. S., & León, B. (2018). New and old narratives: Changing narratives of science documentary in the digital environment. In B. León & M. Bourke, Communicating science and technology through online video: Researching a new media phenomenon (pp. 55–63). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351054584-5

León, B. (2024). Grandes comunicadores de la ciencia. De Galileo Galilei a Rodríguez de la Fuente (submitted for publication).

López-Pan, F. (1997). Consideraciones sobre la narratividad de la noticia. El imperio de una sinécdoque. Communication & Society, 10(1), 9-60. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.10.35636

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Published

2024-01-11

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León, B. (2024). Introduction: #Storytelling. Science through stories. Metode Science Studies Journal, (14), 132–135. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.28045
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Pieces of science (vol. 14, 2024)

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Storytelling. Science through stories

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