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Nanotechnology and the public : risk perception and risk communication / Susanna Hornig Priest

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Perspectives in nanotechnologyPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2012Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 183 Seiten)ISBN:
  • 9781315217871
  • 9781439826843
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781439826836 DDC classification:
  • 620/.5 23
  • 620.5
RVK: RVK: ZN 3700LOC classification:
  • T174.7
Online resources: Summary: This quick, easy-to-read reference supplies data and interpretation on the public perception of nanotechnology, along with a discussion of the implications for risk communication. An integral component of the Perspectives in Nanotechnology Series, the book is based primarily on a review of available social science evidence as well as the author's research concerning public perceptions of nanotechnology. She applies lessons learned from other emerging technologies to help clarify and define the issues of risk and the public that accompany nanotechnology, and to suggest the challenges involved in managing those risks. The book demnostrates how the wide variety of nanotechnologies under development precludes reliance on a single approach.Summary: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Perspectives Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Perspectives Contributors -- 1 Risk Communication in a Democratic Society -- Risk and Technology -- Technology and Society -- References -- 2 Introducing Nanotechnology to the Public -- Imagining the Nanoscale -- Emerging Public Perception -- Risk Communication for Twenty-First Century Democracies -- References -- 3 Risk Communication in Theory and Practice -- Risk Communication Challenges -- The Goals of Risk Communication -- Social Theories of Risk -- References -- 4 Public Opinion, Public Perception, and Public Understanding -- The GM Food Story Revisited -- Opinion Studies and Their Implications -- Implications for Risk Communication Research and Practice -- Nanotechnology and "Cultural Resonance -- References -- 5 What Do People Want from Technology? -- Technological Literacy and Democracy -- The Challenges of Risk Society -- Nanotechnology, Risk, and Society -- References -- 6 Audiences, Stakeholders, Cultures, and Nanotechnology Risk -- The Role of Advocacy in Democracy -- Social, Cultural, and Psychological Inuflences -- Persuasion Research -- References -- 7 Disseminating Information about New Technologies -- Media's Role in Risk Societies -- Media Effects Theory in the Internet Age -- Museums and Science Centers -- References -- 8 Lessons and Future Challenges -- Index.PPN: PPN: 1920770100
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