EUROPEAN SOCIETIES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - DEBATE ON NANOTECHNOLOGY IN POLISH AND SWEDISH PRESS

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 431 - 441, 01.12.2011

Szczepan Lemańczyk

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the study of the media debates on nanotechnology in Swedish and Polish press between 2004 and 2009. It aims to answer following questions: How are risks and benefits related to nanotechnology framed in the Polish and Swedish press? What are the similarities and differences in the way of presenting risks and benefits of nanotechnology? Qualitative content analysis has been applied in order to investigate these issues. The results of the research shows that although both Polish and Swedish debates on nanotechnology are following some patterns observed in other countries, like the UK or Germany, there are significant differences between the coverage in these two states

Keywords

nanotechnology, media debates on nanotechnology, social aspects of nanotechnology

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