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TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences?
AU - Macnaghten, Phil;
AU - Kearnes, Matthew B.
AU - Wynne, Brian
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development. We examine policy dynamics in both the United States and United Kingdom aimed at both opening up, and closing down, the role of the social sciences in nanotechnologies. We then set out a prospective agenda for the social sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes. The emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of social science research.
AB - In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development. We examine policy dynamics in both the United States and United Kingdom aimed at both opening up, and closing down, the role of the social sciences in nanotechnologies. We then set out a prospective agenda for the social sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes. The emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of social science research.
KW - nanotechnology • governance • upstream public engagement • imaginaries
U2 - 10.1177/1075547005281531
DO - 10.1177/1075547005281531
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 268
EP - 291
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
SN - 1075-5470
IS - 2
ER -