Wissen verständlich vermitteln

Möglichkeiten der Wissenschaftskommunikation am Beispiel „Islamistischer Terrorismus: Die konstruierte Bedrohung“

Abstract

The study presented relies on the presumption that science can only keep its social legitimacy, in the long term, when it successfully shares its knowledge and research process with the public. The study looks at promising ways of external com­munication of knowledge by presenting rhetorical and semantic factors for successful science communication in the first chapter. An important principle is to reformulate com­plex thoughts and theories in a way that makes them accessible and interesting for lay­persons. The second chapter will elucidate the methods presented, based on a lecture presented by the authors in February 2018. This lecture aimed for a reduction of com­plexity and minimalistic design with the extensive use of pictographic elements and att­empted to transform the article “Islamic Terrorism: The Constructed Thread” that And­reas Bock, professor of political science in Berlin, gave in April 2017, into an entertai­ning and easily understandable form, in particular for an audience of laypersons. To reach this goal, the authors made use of practices and rules developed in the field of science journalism: concise phrasing, simplified depiction of abstract theories, narrati­ve embedding, use of numbers and charts only where necessary, et cetera.