Standard Research Grant: Deliberating Nanotechnologies in the US: Gendered Beliefs about Benefits and Risks as Factors in Emerging Public Perception and Participation

标准研究补助金：审议美国的纳米技术：关于利益和风险的性别信念作为新兴公众认知和参与的因素

• 批准号: 0824042
• 负责人: Barbara Harthorn
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0824042&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Standard; Research; Grant; Deliberating; Nanotechnologies

This interdisciplinary research project co-funded by the Science, Technology, and Society Program; Nanoscale Exploratory Research; and the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation analyzes how factors of gender and ethnicity shape emergent views of nanoscience, nanoscale materials, and nanotechnologies by the US public in a deliberative setting. As a new and little known class of synthesized materials and devices, nanotechnologies pose an unprecedented case for examining technological beliefs-in-the-making. In the context of federally mandated public participation in nanotech research and development, this project asks how public participants respond to deliberative workshops concerning science and emerging technologies, and in particular, it focuses on the intersecting roles of gender and ethnicity in shaping participants? views and participation in such public forums. The research systematically explores gendered responses in group discussion to issues of technological benefit and risk, governance and responsibility, and societal issues such as equity, privacy, security, job gain and loss, and globalization, from both individual and societal perspectives.A comparative set of 6 public deliberation workshops on emerging nanotechnologies in the US are conducted. The project convenes 3 groups each on 2 specific science and technology applications: nano health technologies and nano energy technologies. The 3 groups are composed of mixed gender, women-only, and men-only participants, with careful attention to ethnicity composition within each group. The mixed group sessions will provide direct longitudinal comparative data with comparable 2007 workshops and hence the ability to track changing public views. The main purpose is to examine the ways that gender operates as a factor to enable or inhibit full participation in such public forums, and how specific workshop design features such as group size, gender and race/ethnicity composition interact. Data analysis methods are qualitative, with systematic content analysis using qualitative data analysis software.

这个跨学科的研究项目共同资助的科学，技术和社会计划;纳米尺度探索性研究;和民事，机械和制造业创新司分析了性别和种族因素如何塑造纳米科学，纳米材料和纳米技术的新兴观点由美国公众在审议设置。 作为一种新的和鲜为人知的合成材料和设备，纳米技术提出了一个前所未有的情况下，检查技术的信念，在决策。 在联邦政府授权的公众参与纳米技术的研究和开发的背景下，这个项目问公众参与者如何应对审议有关科学和新兴技术的研讨会，特别是，它侧重于性别和种族在塑造参与者的交叉作用？在这些公共论坛上发表意见和参与。本研究从个人和社会两个角度系统地探讨了小组讨论中对技术利益和风险、治理和责任以及公平、隐私、安全、工作得失和全球化等社会问题的性别反应。 该项目召集了3个小组，每个小组讨论2个具体的科学和技术应用：纳米健康技术和纳米能源技术。 这三个小组由男女混合、仅限女性和仅限男性的参与者组成，并仔细关注每个小组内的种族组成。 混合小组会议将提供与2007年可比讲习班的直接纵向比较数据，从而能够跟踪不断变化的公众观点。 主要目的是审查性别如何作为一个因素发挥作用，促使或抑制充分参与这种公共论坛，以及小组规模、性别和种族/族裔构成等具体讲习班设计特点如何相互作用。 数据分析方法是定性的，使用定性数据分析软件进行系统的内容分析。