From Jesuit letters to science blogs: the diversity of voices and ways of reporting scientific knowledge in Brazil Part III – since 1950

Abstract

Based on online collections of newspapers and historical publications, this retrospective exposes the diversity of actors - religious, travelers, lawyers, agronomists, botanists, zoologists, physicists, mathematicians, doctors, professional journalists and bloggers - and printed forms - letters, books, newspapers, magazines, blogs – involved in the dissemination of knowledge about zoology, botany, anthropology and agriculture in Brazil since the 16th century. This third and last part presents the first scientific reporters – Julio Abramczyk and José Hamilton Ribeiro – the coverage of science, technology and environment in the magazines of the Abril and Globo publishers, the magazines and newspaper sections on computers, the hybrid production publications and the effects of internet on ways to disseminate science. Together, one can notice the birth, death, superimposition and complementation of styles, forms, vehicles of printed communication and of the people who made them.