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投资与解释:纳米技术,金融新闻与实践认识论

Investment and interpretation: nanotechnology, financial journalism and practical epistemology
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/nano07_cooper_iinf/  
主讲教师: Geoff Cooper
开课单位: 萨里大学
开课时间: 2009-01-14
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
研究媒体报道纳米技术的方式,特别是它们阐述其解释的方式,对于理解公众对什么是科学努力的高度技术领域的看法的形成至关重要。本次讨论报告了一个研究项目,该项目虽然广泛地位于这一关注领域,但着眼于科学的财务理解的相关问题:在一个高度商业化的领域,潜在投资者如何获得信息并对特定应用作出判断,以及记者和其他调解人在这一过程中所扮演的角色。这里的重点是科学和金融记者为理解纳米技术而采用的实际认识论策略。本文以访谈数据为基础,探讨了这些记者对科学有效性和投资潜力的评价方式,以及他们如何在这种叙事困境中进行谈判,如在修辞膨胀的背景下平衡对怀疑论的需要,以及产生有趣故事的专业要求。有人认为,这种对记者的分析重点是作为积极的口译员和作为行动者,而对他们来说,纳米技术的理解是一个紧迫的实际问题,这为研究新闻复制的框架效应和研究公众对剩余内容的理解提供了重要的补充,因为大多数情况下,这些分析重点都是针对新闻工作者的。他是公众,一个相对神秘的领域。此外,在关注行动的当前位置时,它不仅可以告诉我们纳米技术的商业发展,还可以告诉我们公众舆论的形成和发展。
课程简介: Studies of the ways in which the media report nanotechnologies, and particularly the ways in which they frame their interpretation, are crucial to an understanding of the formation of public perceptions of what are highly technical areas of scientific endeavour. This talk reports on a research project which, whilst broadly located within this area of concern, looked at the related question of the financial understanding of science: how, in a field characterised by high levels of commercialisation, potential investors get information and make judgments about particular applications, and the significance of the roles played by journalists and other mediators in this process. The focus here is on the practical epistemological strategies that scientific and financial journalists employ to make sense of nanotechnologies. Drawing on interview data, the paper considers the way that these journalists assess claims made about scientific validity and investment potential, and how they negotiate such narrative dilemmas as balancing the need for scepticism in a rhetorically inflated context with the professional requirement to produce an interesting story. It is argued that this analytic focus – on journalists as active interpreters and as actors for whom the understanding of nanotechnologies is a pressing practical problem – provides an important complement both to studies of the framing effects of journalistic copy, and to studies of public understandings of what remains, for most of the public, a relatively arcane field. Moreover, in focusing on where the action currently is, it may inform our knowledge of not just the commercial development of nanotechnologies, but also the formation and development of public opinion.
关 键 词: 纳米技术方法; 科技金融; 商业领域; 商业化发展
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