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Between Understanding and Trust

Name: Between Understanding and Trust
Author: Meinolf Dierkes
ISBN: 9780203988978

by Meinolf Dierkes, Claudia von Grote

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'This is a welcome book. The issues of public understanding of science open many questions. What does "understanding" mean? How does understanding translate into attitudes towards 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. - Professor Dorothy Nelkin, New York University

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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.

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.

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.