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Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science and Technology

Name: Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science and Technology
Author: Meinolf Dierkes
ISBN: 9789058230072

by Meinolf Dierkes, Claudia Von Grote

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Overview

Waves of new research findings, the dynamic emergence of new technologies, and growing perception of the risks entailed have drastically altered the way people in industrialized societies relate to technical development. The population at large, at least in the western world, has increasingly lost trust in institutions and scientific authority.
There must be some way to restore people's faith in scientific authority. Between Understanding and Trust identifies and analyses the public understanding of science and technology, thus making an important contribution to achieving a new "trust."

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Richard Topf

For both new researchers and those already working in the field, Between Understanding and Trust provides a much needed guide to the current state of the subject.

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Editorials

Dorothy Nelkin

This is a welcome book. The issues of public understanding of science opens many questions. What does "understanding" mean? How does understanding translate into attitudes toward science and trust in scientists? What is the role of the mass media? The essays in this book shed light on such questions bringing insights from several disciplines. They help to define a meaningful research agenda for the future.

Helga Nowotny

Between Understanding and Trust is an informed and highly informative guide into a rapidly growing field of research-the outcome of which will certainly shape the twenty-first century view of science and technology.

Martin Pfaff

Between Understanding and Trust gives an excellent overview of the wide range of unresolved questions arising in the context of public understanding of and attitudes toward science. It should prevent scientists and-of even greater importance-politicians from espousing the usual simplifications about globalisation and international competition.

Paolo Fasella

This publication is timely, well-balanced, critical and constructive, and constitutes a turning point in the continuing interaction between the public, science and technology. This is stimulating reading for all those who are involved in science and technology policy and its implications and consequences.

Richard Topf

For both new researchers and those already working in the field, Between Understanding and Trust provides a much needed guide to the current state of the subject.