Showing 1 through 2 of 2 records. | 1. Rudolph, Lloyd. and Rudolph, Susanne. "Working with "Personal" Documents (Autobiographies, Diaries, Memoirs, Life Histories, etc.)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, <Not Available>. 2009-12-02 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152824_index.html>Publication Type: Proceeding |
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| 2. Stephens, Lowndes. "The Opinions of Public Interest Groups about the Promises and Threats of an Uncertain Science: NanoBusiness Alliance, ETC Group, Greenpeace, and the Foresight Institute’s Views about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs, Phoenix, Arizona, May 11, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-12-02 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p115986_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Arguably, the most important and controversial debates about pubic opinion, science and the mass media in this century will focus on the promises and threats of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Governments in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia are “expecting big things from small science,” an overworked cliché seen in newspaper headlines from around the world.
Largely in response to a National Academy of Sciences review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in 2002, Congress passed in November 2003 a 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. The legislation would authorize $713 million in nanotechnology investment in fiscal year 2004, $784.5 million in fiscal 2005, and $864 million in fiscal 2006, complementing the nearly $1 billion annually that industry is expected to spend on nanotechnology research over the next several years.
The NanoBusiness Alliance, whose advisory board is headed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is the major interest group promoting nanoscience applications. The Foresight Institute whose chairman Eric Drexler is author of the 1986 book, Engines of Creation, while generally positioned as a pro-nanotech organization, is also associated with sentiments [Drexler quote] “that the rush of scientists to jump on the nanotech bandwagon has played a big part in creating media hype, and whatever public anxiety that may in turn have caused.” Greenpeace and the ETC Group are two other public interest groups that are concerned about the societal implications of nanoscience/nanotechnology initiatives.
In this proposed AAPOR paper, the author will examine the opinions of these various interest groups as represented on their own web sites and by the opinions their official representatives have expressed to journalists. The focus is on sentiments regarding the promises and threats of nanoscience/nanotechnology and the period covered generally focuses on content published since January 1, 2000, though some articles date to the 1980s. |
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