NER: Building Capacity For Understanding and Assessing the Impact of Nanotechnology Media Messages: Long-Term Strategy for Improving Public Communication About Emerging Technology

NER：建设理解和评估纳米技术影响的能力媒体信息：改善新兴技术公共传播的长期战略

• 批准号: 0708466
• 负责人: Susanna Priest
• 金额: $ 12.88万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0708466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NER; Building; Capacity; Understanding; Assessing

This program of experimental research will explore how media messages influence public perceptions of riskiness, regulatory adequacy, and fairness for new nanotechnologies. Public opinion for new technology continues to be influenced by mass media messages in important ways, even while the channels of communication are changing and new strategies are evolving to enhance public engagement in discussions of technology policy. News institutions do not act independently of the broader society, and news audiences actively interpret the messages they receive. Despite this, news accounts remain primary sources of the information available to ordinary people about newly emerging technologies.The project has the potential to enhance our understanding of how news media portray issues of risk, regulation, and justice with respect to technology, as well as the consequences for public opinion and attitude formation. We also seek to better grasp the complex interactions among public discussion, media messages, and popular thinking. Perceptions of technological risk, trust in regulatory authorities, and perceptions of fairness also appear to be closely interrelated, but we do not yet fully grasp how. While we propose to begin by studying each of these areas individually, our ultimate goal is to improve our theoretical understanding of their interconnectedness.This research program is also intended to build capacity to better understand public responses to emerging technology more generally in the future. This capacity building involves not only the PI and co-PI and their direct collaborators, but also a broader network of researchers interested in the media''s role in communicating emerging technologies - a network that will be further strengthened by an international, interdisciplinary workshop early in the project year. This workshop will build on an earlier one that took place in spring of 2006 and will bring the thinking of a wider community of scholars to bear on the project.

该实验研究计划将探讨媒体信息如何影响公众对新纳米技术的风险、监管充分性和公平性的看法。尽管传播渠道正在发生变化，新的战略也在不断发展，以加强公众参与技术政策的讨论，但大众媒体信息仍然以重要方式影响着公众对新技术的看法。新闻机构的行动并不独立于更广泛的社会，新闻受众会积极解读他们收到的信息。尽管如此，新闻报道仍然是普通民众获取新兴技术信息的主要来源。该项目有可能增强我们对新闻媒体如何描述技术风险、监管和正义问题以及对公众舆论和态度形成的影响的理解。我们还寻求更好地把握公众讨论、媒体信息和流行思维之间复杂的相互作用。对技术风险的看法、对监管机构的信任以及对公平的看法似乎也密切相关，但我们尚未完全掌握其中的关联。虽然我们建议首先单独研究这些领域，但我们的最终目标是提高我们对它们相互关联性的理论理解。该研究计划还旨在培养能力，以便在未来更广泛地更好地理解公众对新兴技术的反应。这种能力建设不仅涉及 PI 和 co-PI 及其直接合作者，还涉及更广泛的对媒体在传播新兴技术中的作用感兴趣的研究人员网络 - 该网络将通过项目年初的国际跨学科研讨会进一步加强。本次研讨会将以 2006 年春季举行的上一次研讨会为基础，并将更广泛的学者群体的想法融入到该项目中。