Tag: nanotechnology

LSC researchers publish on the development of nanotechnology discourses in social media environments

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LSC doctoral student Kristin K. Runge and a team of Life Sciences Communication researchers have research on nanotechnology Twitter traffic in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. The study, “Tweeting nano: how public discourses about nanotechnology develop in social media environments,” mapped social media traffic about nanotechnology, finding that Twitter traffic expressing opinion about nanotechnology is …

LSC researchers publish in the yearbook of nanotechnology in society

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LSC researchers, lead by doctoral student Doo-Hun Choi, co-authoring with Anthony Dudo, now Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Texas-Austin and Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Professor of Science Communication, have a chapter in the 2013 Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future, edited by Sean A. Hays, …

LSC researchers publish on operationalizations of scientific understanding in science and public policy

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In an article in Science and Public Policy, LSC alumni Pete Ladwig (M.S., ’11) and Kajsa E. Dalrymple (Ph.D., ’11), now assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, along with LSC faculty members Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, as well as Elizabeth A. Corley, of the Center of Nanotechnology and Society and the …

LSC researchers explore differences in traditional and online nanotechnology media coverage

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A team of LSC researchers recently published an article in New Media & Society that explores media coverage of nanotechnology. Their study, “Coverage of emerging technologies: A comparison between print and online media,” examines differences in volume and thematic coverage between US print newspapers and two popular online sources: Google News and Google Blog Search. The abstract …

Researchers explore the role of Google searches in nanotechnology opinion formation

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Doctoral student Xuan Liang, with coauthors doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson, Professor Dietram Scheufele, Associate Professor Dominique Brossard in Life Sciences Communication and Associate Professor Michael Xenos in Communication Arts, has published new research on the role of Google searches in information-seeking on nanotechnology. The paper, “Information snapshots: What Google searches really tell us about emerging …

Dietram Scheufele organizes NAS colloquium on “The Science of Science Communication”

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LSC faculty member Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chaired Professor in Science Communication and co-PI of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, serves as a lead organizer for an upcoming National Academy of Sciences (NAS) colloquium on “The Science of Science Communication.” The colloquium will bring together world-renown scholars of science …