Public Perception

Authors: NanoPodium ; Koppeschaar, Carl ; Hilbrink, Aurora ; van de Wijngaert, Lidwien ; Swierstra, Tsjalling
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: Report from the Dutch Societal Dialogue Nanotechnology project, which surveyed almost 5,000 individuals about their hopes and concerns about the continuing use of nanotechnology. The project asked participants about health and envir...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.astronet.nl/nanorapport/gno.pdf

Authors: Bonazzi, Matteo ; von Bose, Herbert ; Tokamanis, Christos ; European Commission, Directorate General for Research
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report outlines some of the key considerations one should take into account when communicating about nanotechnologies. It discusses public engagement activities and studies that have taken place in Europe, the current perceptio...
Year: 2010
URL: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/nanotechnology/docs/communicating-nanotechnology_en.pdf
DOI: 10.2777/51159

Authors: Berube, David M. ; Cummings, Christopher L. ; Frith, Jordan H. ; Binder, Andrew R. ; Oldendick, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Abstract: This study provides a comparative approach to gaging how the public views nanotechnology risks. The survey asked participants to rank the risks associated with nanotechnology from 24 other risks. The final results of the survey sho...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-011-0325-z

Authors: Bontems, Vincent Karim
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: Nanotechnologies produce many different types of images but are characterized by the ones that allow us to ‘see the atoms’ despite the fact that objects at the nanoscale are smaller than the wavelength of light and hence are ‘invisi...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-011-0121-3

Authors: Åm, Trond Grønli
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: Trust has become an important aspect of evaluating the relationship between lay public and technology implementation. Experiences have shown that a focus on trust provides a richer understanding of reasons for backlashes of technolo...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-010-0105-8

Authors: Morris, Jeff ; Pena, Carlos ; Geraci, Charles ; Tinkle, Sally ; Heeter, Liesl ; National Science and Technology Council , Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology
Publication Type: Conference Proceedings
Secondary Title: Risk Management Methods and Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology : Report of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Workshop March 30-31, 2010 Part IV o IV in the 2009-2010 NNI Environmental, Health, and Safety Workshop Series
Abstract: This document reflects discussions from the Risk Management Methods and Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology Workshop, held March 30-31, 2010. Orgaized by a multi-sector planning team, this workshop capped a f...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.nano.gov/sites/default/files/pub_resource/riskmanagementandelsi.pdf

Authors: Kaplan, Sarah ; Radin, Joanna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Social Studies of Science
Abstract: ‘Nanotechnology’ is often touted as a significant emerging technological field. However, determining what nanotechnology means, whose research counts as nanotechnology, and who gets to speak on behalf of nanotechnology is a highly p...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1177/0306312711402722

Authors: Bontems, Vincent Karim
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: Nanotechnologies produce many different types of images but are characterized by the ones that allow us to ‘see the atoms’ despite the fact that objects at the nanoscale are smaller than the wavelength of light and hence are ‘invisi...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-011-0121-3

Authors: Ruivenkamp, Martin ; Rip, Arie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-011-0122-2

Authors: Priest, Susanna ; Lane, Thomas ; Greenhalgh, Ted ; Hand, Lindsey Jo ; Kramer, Victoria
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Risk Analysis
Abstract: This article reports results from a three-year panel study of a nonrandom sample of 76 South Carolina citizens, recruited from a variety of walks of life, and their impressions of emerging nanotechnology. This discussion focuses on ...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01705.x

Authors: Priest, Susanna Hornig
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Abstract: Regulatory oversight and public communication are intimately intertwined. Oversight failures quickly galvanize media and public attention. In addition, regulations sometimes require that risks and uncertainties be included in commun...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2009.00446.x

Authors: BMRB Ltd. ; Food Standards Agency
Publication Type: Report
Secondary Title: Food Standards Agency Citizen Forums
Abstract: This report summarizes consumer's views on the use of nanotechnology in food and packaging. A series of six workshops involving two groups of 10 participants were conducted between November 2010 and February 2011. The report reveale...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/fsacfnanotechnologyfood.pdf

Authors: Youtie, Jan ; Carley, Stephen ; Shapira, Philip ; Corley, Elizabeth A. ; Scheufele, Dietram A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Research Evaluation
Abstract: This study links survey data on scientists' societal perceptions of nanotechnology with publication data to understand the extent of association between societal perspectives held by nanoscientists and publication actions. Specifica...
Year: 2011

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Authors: Ho, S. S. ; Scheufele, D. A. ; Corley, E. A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Public Understanding of Science
Abstract: This study examines the influence of mass media, interpersonal communication, and elaborative processing on public perception of benefits and risks of nanotechnology, based on a large-scale nationally representative telephone survey...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1177/0963662511417936

Authors: Liang, Xuan ; Anderson, Ashley A. ; Scheufele, Dietram A. ; Brossard, Dominique ; Xenos, Michael A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nano Today
Abstract: For most consumers, Google is the window to the (nano) world. At the very least, Google and other search engines are the place where many consumers get the first glimpse of emerging technologies. In order to explore the critical role...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2012.01.001

Authors: Ho, S. S. ; Scheufele, D. A. ; Corley, E. A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: This study examines the factors influencing public and experts’ attitudes toward nanotechnology. Compared with the experts, the public judged nanotechnology as having greater risks and lesser benefits, and indicated less support for...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1177/1075547010380386

Authors: Cacciatore, M. A. ; Scheufele, D. A. ; Corley, E. A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Public Understanding of Science
Abstract: Public opinion research on nanotechnology has primarily focused on judgments of abstract risks and benefits, rather than attitudes toward specific applications. This approach will be less useful as nanotechnology morphs from a scien...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1177/0963662509347815

Authors: Last, Angela
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Leonardo
Abstract: Mutable Matter is an experimental public engagement pilot program that seeks to enable non-scientists to explore and co-imagine the future of nanotechnology. Located at the intersection of geography, science communication and art pr...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1162/LEON_a_00279

Authors: Donk, A. ; Metag, J. ; Kohring, M. ; Marcinkowski, F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: Nanotechnology cannot be directly experienced and observed—all that people know about it and their interpretations and opinions are mainly based on information from the mass media. Therefore, this first systematic study of the Germa...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1177/1075547011417892

Authors: Groves, C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Public Policy
Abstract: Concerns about the social sustainability of emerging technologies are identified as a motivation behind recent interest in public engagement as a mode of formal technology assessment, nanoscale science and technology (NST) being a k...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1093/spp/38.10.783

Authors: Gardner, Grant ; Jones, Gail ; Taylor, Amy ; Forrester, Jennifer ; Robertson, Laura
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Science Education
Abstract: Scientific literacy as a goal of a science education reform remains an important discourse in the research literature and is a key component of students' understanding and acceptance of emergent technologies like nanotechnology. Thi...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1080/09500690903331035

Authors: Siegrist, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal
Abstract: Public perception may have a strong impact on the progress of nanotechnology. A comprehensive risk assessment should therefore take the public into account. This article reviews the social science research examining public perceptio...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2010.501255

Authors: Rip, Arie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science as Culture
Abstract: Article looks at the folk theories – or patterns and generalizations about what happens in certain social situations – surrounding nanotechnology development. For example, the idea of an impasse in the development of genetically mod...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09505430601022676
DOI: 10.1080/09505430601022676

Authors: Cutcliffe, Stephen H. ; Pense, Christine M. ; Zvalaren, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: The emergence of nanotechnology, with all its promises of economic, social, and medical benefits, along with dire predictions of environmental, health, and safety threats, has occasioned an active debate in the Science and Technolog...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-012-0149-z