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Given the novelty of nanoscience and the scale of resulting technologies, media images (news coverage, but also in the entertainment realm) are likely to be the main way in which most people will relate to developments in this field. Even when products utilising nanoma-terials are directly encountered, their ‘nano’ qualities are likely to be only visible as a brand name. The invisibility and definitional ambiguity of ‘nanotechnology’ has arguably served to constrain media interest in nano-innovations in recent years. Nevertheless, there are signs that ongoing debates concerning the scale, novelty and implications of nanotechnologies are beginning to generate greater media attention (Schummer, 2004; Wood et al., 2007).
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© 2009 Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Clare Wilkinson and Stuart Allan
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Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C., Allan, S. (2009). News Coverage of Nanotechnologies. In: Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234574_4
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