The public's perception of technological risk is something that concerns several projects that we do here. One area of technology that is particularly interesting in this regard is nano-technology. Nature Nanotechnology has published some very interesting articles lately on public acceptance of nanotechnology. This is a debate that will become increasingly prominent. It is particularly interesting to reflect on risk perceptions with regard to emerging research such as stem-cell and nanotechnology and more established bio-tech areas such as GM.
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I couldn't access the links to see what the content was and who wrote it Liam, so apologies if I'm basically repeating your post with the following.
There's been quite a bit of work done on risk and public perceptions of bio/nanotechnology etc at the LSE, particularly by people from the Institute of Social Psychology (George Gaskell, Martin Bauer), CARR (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CARR/Default.htm) etc:
e.g. Gaskell, G., Ten Eyck, T., Jackson, J. and Veltri, G. (2004). 'Public Attitudes to Nanotech in Europe and the United States', Nature Materials, 3, 8, 496.
While not directly related to risk, the last author from the above, Giuseppe Veltri, is doing his PhD in the LSE Institute of Social Psychology on nanotechnology and public understanding: http://www.giuseppeveltri.it/english/
Wolfgang Wagner is also doing some interesting work in this area too, albeit from a broader science in society perspective: http://www.swp.uni-linz.ac.at/content2/staff/wagner/wagner.htm
Might be of interest to people.
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