http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3293 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:00 GMT 2013-05-21T14:04:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30908 Title: Facebook Usage: Limiting and Leaving Authors: Baumer, Eric P. S.; Adams, Phil; Khovanskaya, Vera; Liao, Tony; Smith, Madeline; Sosik, Victoria Schwanda; Williams, Kaiton Abstract: These data come from a questionnaire of over 400 Internet users, focusing specifically on Facebook and those users who have left the service. Results are reported in Baumer, E. P. S., Adams, P., Khovanskaya, V., Liao, T., Smith, M., Sosik, V. S., & Williams, K. (2013). Limiting, Leaving, and (re)Lapsing: A Survey of Facebook Non-use Practices and Experiences. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Description: This archive includes three types of files. First, FBLL-SurveyDescription.pdf and FBLL-SurveyDescription.txt both provide a description of the survey instrument, including the text of the survey questions and branching logic about when questions are or are not shown. Second, FBLL-SurveyData.csv contains 410 anonymized responses received to the survey. Purely nonsensical or unusable responses have been removed. Third, for those who use Qualtrics online survey software, FBLL-QualtricsFile.qsf contains an export of the survey questions and branching logic compatible with the Qualtrics. Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30908 2013-01-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/22016 Title: SURVEY: Views about, knowledge of, and skills in science communication Authors: AUTHOR, AUTHOR Abstract: This file contains the survey developed and reported in the article "What do scientists need to learn in order to communicate better? Measuring scientists' views about, and knowledge of, and skills in, science communication" Description: Supporting material for paper on "What do scientists need to learn in order to communicate better? Measuring scientists' views about, and knowledge of, and skills in, science communication" Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/22016 2011-01-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14276 Title: Achieving Public Understanding of Research in Developing Countries Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce; Joubert, Marina; Radin, Joanna Abstract: This set of webpages documents a workshop on "Achieving Public Understanding of Research in Developing Countries." The goal of the workshop was to explore differences between how "public understanding of science" is perceived in the developed world and how it might be perceived and defined in the developing world. We were particularly interested in whether theoretical ideas about public understanding emerging from recent work in the developed world would have any relevance in the developing world. The initial proposal contains a full discussion of these issues and is included in the document. The workshop was held in Cape Town, South Africa, immediately following the 7th International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, "Science Communication in a Diverse World." The workshop brought together more than 50 people from 16 countries on 6 continents. Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14276 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14275 Title: The Salience of Small: Nanotechnology Coverage in the American Press, 1986-2004 Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce; Gorss, Jason; Radin, Joanna Abstract: Recent studies of media coverage of biotechnology have suggested that such coverage was similar to coverage of nuclear energy and other "emerging technologies." To move beyond individual cases and towards a broader theory of media coverage of emerging technologies, this study looks at a new emerging technology – nanotechnology – and explicitly compares coverage of it to coverage of earlier emerging technologies. We present a preliminary content analysis of nanotechnology coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press for the period 1 January 1986 to 30 June 2004. Media attention to nanotechnology seems to parallel coverage of biotechnology in its early stages of issue development—starting out low and rising sharply as it spreads from “elite” media outlets to more general outlets. As with biotechnology, coverage of nanotechnology throughout this period is overwhelmingly positive, focusing on progress and potential economic benefits, and with little discussion of attendant risks. Nanotechnology coverage does, however, focus more on risks from the outset than biotechnology did, suggesting that issues of public accountability are growing more salient to journalists. We conclude with comments about the possibility of a theory of media coverage of emerging technologies. Description: Conference paper Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:21:49 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14275 2010-01-08T19:21:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14239 Title: Biotechnology and the American Media: The Policy Process and the Elite Press, 1970-1999 Authors: Nisbet, Matthew C.; Lewenstein, Bruce V. Abstract: In this paper, we present a quantitative content analysis of biotechnology-related coverage appearing in the New York Times and Newsweek between the years 1970 to 1999, examining patterns of media attention and evaluating the source impact of various political and social actors on the themes, frames, and tone of coverage. Although media attention to biotechnology steadily increased across the 1980s and for most of the 1990s, media attention within years has been highly episodic, peaking and plummeting in response to major scientific announcements or related focusing events. Even in its peak years of coverage, biotechnology still rests rather modestly on the overall media agenda in comparison to other major political issues, and in comparison to other issues related to science, technology, or popular culture. The character of biotechnology-related coverage has been overwhelmingly positive, and has been dominated by scientists, government actors, and industry, with a heavy emphasis on the frames of scientific progress and economic prospect. A departure from this trend only occurs in correspondence to the late 1990s debate over cloning, as a greater media emphasis on ethics and controversy emerges. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14239 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14238 Title: Science Books Since 1945. Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce Abstract: In the United States after World War II, new research findings were not considered “science” until they appeared in refereed journals. Yet books remained (and remain) tremendously important in American science. They provided structure and substance for scientific communities -- both communities within scientific practice and communities of scientific interest that extended beyond the professional scientific world, communities that encompassed various publics and defined their interaction with science. Science books can be understood as shared social experiences, ones that through their use created a common bond that may or may not have been based on the actual content of the text. Books served multiple communities, crossing boundaries in complex ways that allow us to see trust and authority in action. Books served as social memories, providing cultural touchpoints that allowed communities to express their common norms and interests. To explore these issues, this chapter looks at books in several categories: books of daily use such as reference books, textbooks, those with clear influence on intellectual culture, and those with clear influence on broader public culture or "culture scientifique" – the place of science and scientific ideas in the cultural matrix. The chapter looks at how scientific ideas were presented and conveyed through books in the post-WWII era to create intellectual regimes, as well as how they were used in discourses that both contributed to science's social authority and simultaneously allowed ideas to shift meanings as they were used in different contexts. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14238 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/13733 Title: The Meaning of 'Public Understanding of Science' in the United States After World War II Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/13733 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/13731 Title: Was There Really a Popular Science 'Boom'? Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce Thu, 01 Jan 1987 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/13731 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/12774 Title: The Politics of 'Platforms' Authors: Gillespie, Tarleton Abstract: Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers, and policymakers, making strategic claims as to what they do and do not do, and how their place in the information landscape should be understood. One term in particular, 'platform,' reveals the contours of this discursive work. 'Platform' has been deployed in both their populist appeals and their marketing pitches - sometimes as technical platforms, sometimes as platforms from which to speak, sometimes as platforms of opportunity. Whatever tensions exist in serving all of these constituencies are carefully elided. The term also fits their efforts to shape information policy, where they seek protection for facilitating user expression, yet also seek limited liability for what those users say. As these providers become the curators of public discourse, we must examine the roles they aim to play, and the terms with which they hope to be judged. Wed, 20 May 2009 15:36:21 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/12774 2009-05-20T15:36:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/5242 Title: Assessing models of outreach in ELSI projects: Final Report to the DOE's ELSI program Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce V.; Brossard, Dominique Abstract: This report examined the presence of four models of science communication in outreach projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications (ELSI) program. The four models were: deficit model, contextual model, lay knowledge model, and public engagement model. Although theoretical literature in science communication has recently been highly critical of the deficit model, we found that most projects -- including those that labeled themselves as public engagement -- contained a substantial amount of deficit model communicatio Description: Final Report. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:02:21 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/5242 2007-01-16T20:02:21Z