Nanotechnology and News Production: scientists’, journalists’ and editors’ views

Project Outcomes

Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Petersen, A (2004) 'Pictoral and Textual Representations of Nanotechnology in the UK Press', Paper presented at the 'Imaging and Imagining Nanoscience and Engineering' conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 3rd-7th March.

Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Petersen, A (2004) ‘Nanotechnology and the Media’. Paper presented at Plymouth sciBar, 4th May 2004.

Allan, S., Anderson, A. and Petersen, A. (2004) ‘Defining Risk: British Press Reporting on Nanotechnology,’ Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25-30 July.

Anderson, A, Petersen, A. and Allan, S. (2004) 'Nanotechnology in the News: Representing Risk'. Paper presented at the 4S and EASST conference, 'Public Proofs: Science, Technology and Democracy', Paris, 25th-28th August.

Petersen, A. Anderson, A. and Allan, S.(2005) ‘Representing risk: the news media politics of nanotechnology’, Learning about risk, SCARR (Social Contexts and Responses to Risk) Launch Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 28th-29th January.

Anderson, A. Allan, S. Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, C. (2005) ‘Textual Representations of Nanotechnology’. Paper presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting, The Nexus: Where Science Meets Society, Washington DC, 17th-21th February.

Anderson, A. Allan, S. Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, C. (2005) ‘Nanotechnology and News Production’. Paper presented at Naked Science: Is a nano-future fact or fantasy? The Dana Centre, London, 1st March.

Anderson, A. Allan, S. Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, C. (2005) ‘Meet the Experts’ Participation in Small but mighty: how could nanotechnology revolutionise our lives? At-Bristol, 11th March.

Anderson, A. Allan, S. Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, C. 'Framing Environmental Risk: UK Press Reporting on Nanotechnology'. Paper presented at International Sociological Association Conference on Environment, Knowledge and Democracy, Luminy University, Marseille, 6-7th July, 2005.

Petersen, A. Allan, S, Anderson, A. and Wilkinson, C. (2005) ‘Nanotechnology and News Production: A Report on Key Findings’. Paper presented at Nanotechnologies, the media and public engagement. The Watershed, Bristol, 13th September.

Petersen, A. Allan, S, Anderson, A. and Wilkinson, C. (2005) 'A Fantastic voyage: the making of news on nano-medicine’. Paper presented at BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference 2005, University of York, 15th-17th September.

Anderson, A., Allan, S., Petersen, A, and Wilkinson, C. (2005 Forthcoming) The framing of nanotechnologies in the British newspaper press, Science Communication, 27(2).