From 'cold' science to 'hot' research: the texture of controversy

Morgan Meyer
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Morgan Meyer: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 16, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: Examines the changing roles of science exhibitions from places of 'cold' science, where secure, closed and fixed knowledge is communicated, to places that increasingly engage with 'hot', controversial research and open debates.

Keywords: Science and technology studies; museums; science exhibitions; controversies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z10 Z11 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2009-09
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