گناهان علیه علم: حقه‌های رسانه‌ای علمی پو، تواین و دیگران (سری SUNY، مطالعات در ارتباطات علمی و فنی)

Lynda Walsh Explores A Provocative Era In American History - The Proliferation Of Fake News Stories About Scientific And Technological Discoveries From 1830 To 1880. These Hoaxes, Which Fooled Thousands Of Readers, Offer A First-hand Look At An Intriguing Guerilla Tactic In The Historical Struggle Between Arts And Sciences In America. Focusing On The Hoaxes Of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, And Dan De Quille, The Author Combines Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Linguistic Pragmatics, And Reader-response Theory To Answer Three Primary Questions: How Did The Hoaxes Work? What Were The Hoaxers Trying To Accomplish? And - What Is A Hoax?--jacket. A Brief Natural History Of Hoaxing -- Method -- Poe's Hoaxing And The Construction Of Readerships -- Mark Twain And The Social Mechanics Of Laughter -- The Hoaxes Of Dan De Quille: Building And Defending The West -- The Mechanics Of Hoaxing. Lynda Walsh. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-290) And Index. List of Ilustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: A Brief Natural History of Hoaxing Swift's Hoax and Satires Parody Nineteenth-Century Fraud, Tall Tales, and Science Fiction in America Kairos Chapter Two: Method The Traditional Genealogy The Subversive Genealogy Optimality Theory Chapter Three: Poe's Hoaxing and the Construction of Readerships Overview of Poe's Scientific and Rhetorical Acculturation The Contest between Hans Phaall and Locke's Moon Hoax: Revealing Reader Expectations Collecting Reader Expectations Ranking Reader Expectations The Balloon-Hoax "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" Solutions to Problems in Poe Scholarship Poe's Relationship to Science and to His Readership: How Hoaxes Interact with Eureka Chapter Four: Mark Twain and the Social Mechanics of Laughter Rhetorical Acculturation Scientific Acculturation The Petrified Man Adjusting the Filter of Expectations to Account for Twain's Hoaxing Applying the Analysis to Problems in Twain Scholarship Relationship of the Hoax to Twain's Scientific Thinking The Social Mechanics of Laughter Chapter Five: The Hoaxes of Dan De Quille: Building and Defending the West Rhetorical Acculturation Scientific Acculturation De Quille's Hoaxes Summary of Reading Expectations Based on De Quille's Hoaxes De Quille's Hoaxes Build and Defend His Ideal West Chapter Six: The Mechanics of Hoaxing How Did the Hoaxes Work? What Were the Hoaxers Trying to Accomplish? The Hoax as a Machine Tuning Up: The Hoax Then and Now Conclusion: The Sokal Hoax Exploiting the Conventions of the Cultural Studies Article Sokal's Hoax Constructs Him as a Notorious Expert The Hoax as a Computer Virus Appendix A: How to Read Tables in Optimality Theory (OT) What the Parts of the Table Mean The Results of the Syllabification of /ansɛt/ Optimality Theory Applied to a Decision about a Hoax's Truth-Value Appendix B: Reader Responses to the Moon Hoax Notes Glossary Bibliography Index xii, 296 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index A brief natural history of hoaxing -- Method -- Poe's hoaxing and the construction of readerships -- Mark Twain and the social mechanics of laughter -- The hoaxes of Dan de Quille: building and defending the west -- The mechanics of hoaxing

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830-1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science