Nanotechnology, risk and communication / Alison Anderson [and others].

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

vii, 179 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-176) and index.

Introduction -- Reporting science -- Risk society and the media -- News coverage of nanotechnologies -- Nanotechnologies, public knowledge and the media -- Scientists' and policymakers' representations of nanotechnologies -- Communication about nanotechnologies in the future.