Nanotechnology and Scientific Communication Ways of Talking about Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Society (2004-2008)

This study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university’s community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology. It includes analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with scientists and engineers from 18 different disciplines self-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bassett, Deborah R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and Overview
  • 2. Discovering a Code of Scientific Communicative Conduct
  • 3. Ways of Speaking about Social Relations
  • 4. Strategic Conduct in a Code of Science
  • 5. Evidence for Multiple Speech Codes
  • 6. Conclusions