Thought some of you might be interested in the following new book:

 

Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication

 

Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Clare Wilkinson and Stuart Allan

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

 

ISBN-10: 0230506933

ISBN-13: 978-0230506930

 

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277172

 

 

Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book offers a novel analysis of the early framing of nanotechnology and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science.

 

'Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication' is one of the first major studies of media coverage, policy debates and public perceptions about nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing areas of scientific innovation in the 21st Century. Drawing on data from two of the first studies of nanotechnology communication in the UK, it contributes important new empirical and conceptual analyses of the relationship between scientists and the media in communicating controversial new technologies, and charts new ground in a field of growing scientific and media interest.

 

Table of Contents:

 

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Reporting Science
3. Risk Society and the Media
4. News Coverage of Nanotechnologies
5. Nanotechnologies, Public Knowledge and the Media
6. Scientists’ and Policymakers’ Representations of Nanotechnologies
7. Communication about Nanotechnologies in the Future
Notes
References

 

 

Dr Alison Anderson

Reader

School of Law and Social Science

Faculty of Social Science and Business

University of Plymouth

Plymouth PL4  8AA

UK

 

Tel: +44 (0)1752 23 32 34

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Web: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/aanderson