Transcript Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of

Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California, Santa Barbara
(NSEC # SES 0531184)
PIs: Barbara Herr Harthorn, UCSB; Richard P. Appelbaum, UCSB; Bruce Bimber, UCSB;
W. Patrick McCray, UCSB; Christopher Newfield, UCSB
CNS Mission
Examine the emergence and societal
implications of nanotechnologies with
a focus on the global human
condition in a time of sustained
technological innovation. Promote
the socially and environmentally
sustainable development of
nanotechnologies in the US and
around the globe.
Education and Public Engagement programs at CNS-UCSB
•provide interdisciplinary training
for a new generation of societallyattuned scientists and scienceaware social scientists;
•identify and dialogue with a wide
array of public, media,
government, NGO, and private
sector constituents;
Fall 2009 Conference
Washington, DC
“Emerging Technologies/Emerging Economies:
CNS TOOLS FOR OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT
Speakers series
Weekly Fellows Meetings
Newsletters
Conferences and Workshops
Blog
Web Clearinghouse
Weekly Clips
Webpage
Research Objectives
•Develop a portfolio of integrated
multi-method research on
nanoscience/nanotechnologies in
dynamic interaction with society,
from invention to global
distribution, and lab to consumer
to environment;
COMING SOON:
aim to nurture an interdisciplinary community of nano scientists & engineers
(NSE), social scientists, and educators, and to achieve broader impacts
through engagement of diverse audiences in dialogue about nanotechnology
and society.
Nanotechnology for Equitable Development”
NanoCaféNano-Meeter
(bringing scientists into dialog with
the community)
Visualization tools
Podcasts
Distribution Database
Media outreach
WG 3 – Nano Risk Perception and the Public Sphere seeks to understand
Formal Education
•Interdisciplinary Research & Training
Opportunities for Undergraduate and Graduate
Students
•Social Science Graduate Research
Fellowships
•Science & Engineering Graduate Research
Fellowships
•Undergraduate Research Internships (in
partnership with INSET)
•Postdoctoral Training
•Development of Course Curricula
UCSB Center for
Nanotechnology in
Society
Innovation
Tech Transfer
Risk
Perception
WG 2 – Innovation, Intellectual Property, and
Globalization develops a comprehensive understanding of processes of
WG
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United States
•UC Berkeley
•Duke University
•Rice University
•Univ of Washington
•SUNY Levin Institute
•SUNY New Paltz
•Chemical Heritage
Foundation
•American Bar Foundation
Nano enabled
products
Public
Sphere
Risk object
characteristics
Historical
Context
Risk
event
Context
communication
Public
perceptions
Government
communication
Policy
NGO
Contextual
variables
Public sphere team (Bimber)
• Media coverage of societal issues
-Automated content analysis
• Nano framing in elite print media
• Nano framing by policy makers
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Quantum Dot Mapping:
Innovation Pathways
Globalization team (Appelbaum)
• Global emergence and diffusion of nanotechnologies
• The development of nanotechnology in China and
Taiwan
• Use of nano for environmental remediation in South
and East Asia
Nanotechnology Value Chain
WG 1 - Historical Context of
Nanotechnologies studies the historical
2001
2002
2003
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2006
2007
Growth in volume of public
communication re: nano, 2000-2007
underpinnings of nano policy, the nano enterprise,
and their social context.
Historical Context (McCray)
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanoscale Research and Interdisciplinarity
• Nanotechnology, Futurism, and the Public
Imagination
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International
• Australian National University
• Univ. of British Columbia, CA
• Univ of East Anglia, UK
• Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
• University of Wales-Cardiff, UK
• Venice International Univ, Italy
• various Chinese institutions
Media
coverage
Nano materials
innovation, commercialization, and global development and diffusion of
nanotechnology with an emphasis on E and S Asia.
Innovation team (Newfield)
• Interactions of nano-scale research with
technology transfer at the universityindustry interface.
• Survey research on nano-scale
laboratories, examining crossinstitutional innovation practices
Expert risk
assessment
WG 3
WG 2
Globalization
amplification and attenuation of nanotech risk perception in US and comparative other
societies and how elite organizations are forming, interacting, and framing discourse about
nano and society; and to develop methods for engaging diverse US publics in upstream
deliberation about nanotechnologies’ near and long-term futures.
Risk perception team (Harthorn)
• Multiple party risk perception
• Upstream deliberation, US & UK
• Experts: NSE, Nanotox, Industry, Regulators
Education
and
NSE & Public Engagement
•serve as a network hub in the
emerging national and
international network of scholars
and activists concerned with
nanotechnology in society.
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
COLLABORATIONS
Co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
China
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