Folk Theories of Nanotechnologists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12206334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arie Rip (University of Twente, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 349-365 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science as Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-5431 • E-ISSN: 1470-1189 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09505430601022676 |
| OpenAlex | W2069468067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 92 |
| References cited | 24 |
The world of nanotechnology is full of folk theories. Actors attempt to capture patterns in what is happening and be reflexive about them, so as to do better the next time. A clear example is the diagnosis of an impasse in agro-food GM technologies, coupled to statements about the need to avoid such impasses with nanotechnology. Since there is a claim that such patterns will recur (if we don't change our ways), there is generalization, so one can speak of a theory—here about public reactions to new technology. Calling it a folk theory implies that it evolves in ongoing practices, and serves the purposes of the members of the various practices. In this example, these would be nanotechnologists, policy makers for nanotechnology, other scientists and technologists, science watchers and commentators. What characterizes folk theories is that they provide orientation for future action
Art history · Epistemology · Happening · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Chaos, Complexity, and Education · History · Nanotechnology research and applications · Philosophy · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Making responsibility matter
Unlocking participation
Políticas Públicas de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
On the economics of techno-scientific promises
Folk Theories of Journalism
La anticipación en la búsqueda de una innovación responsable
From ambition to implementation
‘It’s All About Money’ – News Users’ Folk Theory of Audience Data Utilisation in Journalism
From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism
The concept of ‘nature’ in chemistry in a digital and ecological age
Evolving Collaborations
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic
If it is bad, why don’t I quit? Algorithmic recommendation use strategy from folk theories
Different ways of problematising biotechnology – and what it means for technology governance
Science to the people! (and experimental politics)
Co-producing uncertainty in public science
Co-creating Nano-imaginaries
Assessing Quality of Stakeholder Engagement
Public Communication of Technological Change
Into the black box
Lose One Another … and Find One Another in Nanospace. ‘Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow’s Society
Have STS fallen into a political void? Depoliticisation and engagement in the case of nanotechnologies
Nano‐Industry Operationalizations of “Responsibility
Curators of digital futures
Boosting popularity
Technology Roadmaps, Innovation Journeys, and Nanoworld
Everything is Biased
Envisioning Ethical Nanotechnology
No Longer Academic
The Construction of Imaginaries of the Public as a Threat to Synthetic Biology
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Expectations of Genomic Selection for Forestry
Lost in Translation? The Need for ‘Upstream Engagement’ with Nanotechnology on Trial
Collaboration Talk
Responsibility and nanotechnology
Constructing failure in big biology
The business of expectations
Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’
Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist
Unpacking news consumption and trust decisions through a folk theory approach
The Ennobling Unity of Science and Technology”
Accounting for Impact? The Journal Impact Factor and the Making of Biomedical Research in the Netherlands
Definitions of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies
That would break the containment’
Technology assessment as a myth buster
Eclectic, random, intuitive? Technology assessment, RRI, and their use of history
The rise and fall of promises
Ayako Gotō 五島綾子, “Kagaku Būmu” No Kōzō
Resist or Comply
Envisioning futures
Folk theorizing the quality and credibility of health apps
Models of Public Engagement
From Anti-Biotech to Nano-Watch
Implicit Values in the Recent Carbon Nanotube Debate
Context Matters
Nano-ethics as Nest-ethics
Responsible Management in Private Sector Nano Enterprises
Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish Newspapers
Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Elsa
Responsibility through Anticipation? The ‘Future Talk’ and the Quest for Plausibility in the Governance of Emerging Technologies
Beyond Implications and Applications
Responsibility and Visioneering—Opening Pandora’s Box
Meta-Regulation and Nanotechnologies
Hype After Hype
The Role of Professional Norms and Ethics in Security Mental Models
Disappointment or hype? Framing artificial intelligence in the US elite news media
All things weird and scary’
The Media Covers Up a Lot of Things”
A future so close
Social risk amplification as an attribution
Knowledge transfer from citizens’ panels to regulatory bodies in the domain of nano-enabled medical applications
To track or not to track
Enhancing innovation in agriculture at the policy level
Scripting possible futures of nanotechnologies
The governance of nanotechnology in the Brazilian context
Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics
Tailoring Foresight to field specificities
(Re)making matter
The past and future of RRI
Governance experiments in climate action
Researching Technoscientific Concerns in the Making
Everyday Routines as Transformative Processes
Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping
Science Communication Is Culture
Notions of Identity, Society, and Rhetoric in a Speech Code of Science Among Scientists and Engineers Working in Nanotechnology
Engaging nanotechnologies
The American spirit
Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify
"On "Aesthetic Publics
Making Nano Matter
Shifting Expert Configurations and the Public Credibility of Science
Estamos ante un "giro poscompetitivo" en la política de ciencia, tecnología e innovación
Genetic alchemy
Essays in the sociology of perception
Folk biology and the anthropology of science
The past and future of constructive technology assessment
Societal dimensions of nanotechnology
Denialism
Nanotechnology
Inventing accuracy
For an ethics of promising, or
Creating Public Alienation
Scams Cannot Be Busted
Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence
Real-time technology assessment
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Do Politics Have Artefacts
Culture in Action
| Unique citing works | 92 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,84 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |