Nanotechnology Survey II – Public Awareness of Nanotechnology

CLIENT

Dietram Scheufele, UW-Madison School of Journalism

DESCRIPTION

Conducted three years after the Professor Scheufele’s original Nanotechnology survey, this was also an NSF funded joint project between the UW-Madison, Cornell University, and Penn State. This projoect was a national RDD survey of approximately 1000 interviews. The purpose of this survey is to further explore the linkages among various aspects of public response to new technologies and scientific developments, such as nanotechnology, and to track how public awareness of these technologies is changing over time.

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Kelly Elver

DATES IN FIELD

January 2007 – June 2007