1st Edition
Nanotechnology and the Public Risk Perception and Risk Communication
Risk Communication in a Democratic Society
Risk and Technology
Technology and Society
Acknowledgments
Introducing Nanotechnology to the Public
Imagining the Nanoscale
Emerging Public Perception
Risk Communication for 21st-Century Democracies
Risk Communication in Theory and Practice
Risk Communication Challenges
The Goals of Risk Communication
Social Theories of Risk
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"
What Do People Want from Technology?
Technological Literacy and Democracy
The Challenges of Risk Society
Nanotechnology, Risk, and Society
Audiences, Stakeholders, Cultures, and Nanotechnology Risk
The Role of Advocacy in Democracy
Social, Cultural, and Psychological Influences
Persuasion Research
Disseminating Information about New Technologies
Media’s Role in Risk Societies
Media Effects Theory in the Internet Age
Museums and Science Centers
Lessons and Future Challenges
Biography
Susanna Priest has been active in research concerning popular perspectives on emerging technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology since the 1980s. She is editor of Science Communication: Linking Theory and Practice, a leading journal in its field, author or editor of three books, and author or co-author of dozens of book chapters, journal articles, and reports about public responses to science and technology. Her work on nanotechnology public perception has been supported by several National Science Foundation grants. She is presently Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
