Nanotechnology and scientific communication : ways of talking about emerging technologies and their impact on society (2004-2008) /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Nanotechnology and Scientific Communication; Acknowledgements and Disclaimer; Contents; 1 Introduction and Overview; Social and Ethical Issues (SEI); Definitional Issues; SEI Raised by NSE; Challenges to SEI Research; Concurrent Federally Funded Projects Addressing SEI Research; Historical Antecedents; Scholarly Context; Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication; Additional Theoretical Influences; Bourdieu's Theories of Language; Bakhtin's Dialogic Model in Cultural Codes Research; Research Questions; Description of Materials, Data, and Methods; Description of Materials; Data Analysis
- Presentation of ResultsNotes; 2 Discovering a Code of Scientific Communicative Conduct; Orientation to Results Chapters; The Speech Community; Discovering the Code; The Psychology of a Scientist; What SCT Means by "Psychology"; Beginning Fieldwork; Cultural Premises and Rules Regarding the Nature of a Scientist; Additional Insight; Conclusion; 3 Ways of Speaking about Social Relations; Overview; The Roles for Science and Industry in Society at Large; Different Roles for Basic and Applied Research; Public Understanding, Media Portrayal, and Education; Conclusions
- 4 Strategic Conduct in a Code of ScienceOverview; Appropriate Communication about Science; Terms for Talk; Instances of "Communicate" and "Explain"; Instances of "Speak" and "Talk"; Instances of "Say" and "Tell"; Four Anecdotes; Strategic Use of Interview by the Respondents; Putting It All Together; Note; 5 Evidence for Multiple Speech Codes; Overview; Cultural Codes Revisited; Example 1: Conversation with Graduate Students in Nano; Example 2: Graduate Students in NT Respond To Ethical Discussions; Evidence of Competing Speech Codes from Earlier Materials
- Competing Codes, Competing IdeologiesTalk, Time, and Code Change; Note; 6 Conclusions; Results Summary; Implications for Extant Literature; Implications for Proposition 6 of Speech Codes Theory; Goals of the Project; Study Limitations; Appendix A: Transcription Conventions; Bibliography; Index