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CNS-UCSB Event: How the Public Forms Opinions About Emerging Technologies |
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February 20, 2008 |
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The NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society Presents:
Dietram A. Scheufele
University of Wisconsin
"Values, Frames and News Coverage: How the Public Forms Opinions About Emerging Technologies"
February 22, 2008
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Marine Science Building Auditorium
UC Santa Barbara
Professor Dietram A. Scheufele addresses an audience at UC Santa Barbara
Click here for the event flier.
Dietram A. Scheufele is Professor of Life Science Communication and
Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin. He
is Wisconsin PI of the NSF-funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society
at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) and serves on the steering
committees of the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and
Technology Studies and the UQ Survey Center.
Prior to joining UW, he was a tenured faculty member at Cornell
University. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies at both
Cornell and Wisconsin, and teaches courses in Research and Strategy,
Research Methods, Public opinion and the Life Sciences, Media and
Politics, and Digital Democracy.
Scheufele has published extensively in the areas of public opinion and
political communication, and his work on framing effects, public
participation and related issues is cited regularly in the academic
literature. As coordinator of the Communication Technologies Research
Cluster at UW, he is especially interested in the role that new
communication technologies play in mobilizing and informing the
electorate.
He is also co-leader of the Public Opinion and Values Research Team for
CNS-ASU. This work is part of his larger research agenda on public
attitudes toward science and technology. This includes numerous
studies exploring the public opinion dynamics and media coverage
surrounding nanotechnology, stem cell research, GMOs, and other
emerging technologies.
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Last Updated ( February 26, 2008 )
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