INSITE guest researcher Dietram Scheufele, a Professor of Life Sciences Communication at UW-Madison, will give a free talk on religous climates and attitudes toward emerging scientific innovations on Tuesday, October 21 at 3:30 PM in Grainger Hall Room 1180.
The paper he'll discuss examines the link between religious climates and attitudes toward nanotechnology in the U.S. and a number of European countries, using national survey data. The researchers' results show that respondents in the U.S. were significantly less likely to agree that nanotechnology is morally acceptable than respondents in many European countries. These moral views. in turn, correlated directly with aggregate levels of religiosity in each country, even after controlling for national research productivity and PISA science performance scores. The researchers also found the link between religiosity and attitudes to be stable across different indicators of support for nanotechnology.
Scheufele has published extensively in the areas of public opinion, political communication, and public attitudes toward new technologies, including nanotechnology, stem cell research, and GMOs. His work on Framing as a theory of media effects, for instance, is identified by ISI's Web of Science and Google Scholar as the most frequently cited article in Journal of Communication in the last decade.
Prior to joining UW, Scheufele was a tenured faculty member at Cornell University. His research focuses on the intersection of media, politics and science, and has been supported by competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Worldwide Universities Network, the University of Wisconsin Graduate School and other funding agencies.
This presentation is part of the Research Seminar Series of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship (INSITE), Strategic Management in the Life and Engineering Sciences and the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
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