Resumen de Comparing the public perceptions of science and technology in the Greek and the Portuguese daily press: The case of the return of Halley's Comet (1910)
Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simoes, Isabel Zilhao, Eirini Mergoupi Savaidou, Faidra Papanelopoulou, Spyros Tzokas
In this paper we present the results of a comparative study of the return of Halley’s Comet in 1910, as presented in the Greek and the Portuguese generalist press. Our work is based on a common bottom-up approach offering a complete survey of all relevant news published in two different newspapers in each country: the Greek newspapers Embros (Athens, 1896) and Skrip (Athens, 1893), selected for their wide circulation because at the period under examination newspapers had no clear political orientation, and the Portuguese newspapers Diário de Notícias (Lisbon, 1865) and Diário dos Açores (Azores, 1870), chosen on the basis of their broad ideological scope and different geographical locations. We offer some conclusions, which explore the contrasts and similarities of how the return of Halley’s Comet in 1910 was reported in both countries.
