Net Media
Harvard physicist Eric Mazur engages a Museum of Science audience in the intricacies of stopping time with a femtosecond laser and pulling nanowires at room temperature.
NISE Network Media production has focused on building the capacity of the field to locate, produce, and share nanoscale informal science educational media.
Explorations in the first phase of work (2006-07) include the following:
- Researching existing media resources and organizing them into a professional "nano media finder" resource website at www.nanomediafinder.net
- Developing partnerships for media-based educational outreach with NOVA, Dragonfly TV, and WBUR.
- Developing a set of standards for the construction of a multimedia authoring and distribution system that could serve kiosks in museums and other public places via the Web.
- Experimenting with the development of short films using fun approaches to understanding the scale of nano and then setting up a "Viewer's Choice" interactive booth on the floor of the Museum and on YouTube.
- Filming and post-production of documentary material, flash-based animations, and interactives exploring the work of several leaders in the field of cancer nanomedicine.
- Partnering with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to build a media-rich exhibit on nanomedicine.
- Partnering with a team at the Maryland Science Center to explore regional production of nanomedicine research stories.
- Development of a prototype updateable multimedia kiosk on cancer nanomedicine to be offered to museums with human body and medicine exhibits.
- Producion of a short film on Don Eigler, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, and research into quantum computing.
- Co-sponsorship of a materials science and nanotech short film festival with the Materials Research Society.
- Production of two short radio documentaries on nano research aired on WBUR Boston and one one-hour nationally broadcast radio call-in show on issues in regulating nanotech.
Media partner organizations
Maryland Science Center: NISE Subcontract
Roberta Cooks, Robert Haas
This team is developing a cancer nanomedicine interactive media story based on the work of a local Maryland research group. The story will be included in the cancer nanomedicine kiosk.
CytImmune, Inc., Rockville, MD: Collaboration
Collaborating with Maryland Science Center team in developing cancer nanomedicine research story, contributing media, access, and information
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: NISE Collaborative R&D
Jenny Gardner and the OMSI Nanomedicine exhibit package development team
This team is working closely with us on integrating the nanomedicine multimedia stories and interactives into the nanomedicine exhibit package.
Science Museum of Minnesota: NISE Collaboration
Paul Martin, Sue Koch
Collaboration on joint media/exhibit package development and evaluation.
Materials Research Society: NISE Collaboration
Louis Terminello (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)
Babu Chalamala (Indocel Tech)
Helena Van Swygenhoven (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Co-Development of MRS Film Festival for Fall 2006 Meeting, including NISE Net Nano Short Film Awards.
Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas
Health Science Center: Collaboration
Professor Mauro Ferrari, Chairman
Contributing expertise, staff time, and resources to filming of cancer nanomedicine research story.
Rice University: Collaboration
Professors Jennifer West and Naomi Halas, Dr. Surbhi Lal
Contributing expertise, staff time, and resources to filming of cancer nanomedicine research story.
Massachusetts General Hospital: Collaboration
Drs. Ralph Weissleder and Mukesh Harisinghani
Contributing expertise, staff time, and resources to filming of cancer nanomedicine research story.
National Institutes of Health, Trans-NIH Nanotechnology Task Force: Collaboration
Jeffery A. Schloss, Ph.D. Co-chair
Consultations on nanomedicine research; gave talk at NISE Annual Meeting
NIH NCRR Science Education Partnership Award: Collaboration
L. Tony Beck, Ph.D., Program Officer
SEPA is helping to fund development of nanomedicine kiosk development for distribution to SEPA-funded public outreach sites.
National Cancer Institute Alliance for Cancer Nanomedicine: Collaboration
Dr. Piotr Grodzinsky, Director
Consultations on nanomedicine research. Introducing project to researchers.
IBM Almaden: Collaboration
Donald Eigler, Senior Research Scientist
Contributing interview, media resources, and consultation to film about scanning tunneling microscopy.
Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center, Harvard University: Collaboration
Robert Westervelt, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Consultation and resources for film on scanning tunneling microscopy
Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing NSEC, Northeastern University, UMass-Lowell, University of New Hampshire: Collaboration
Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Support for developing "All Things Nano" Web site, the nano media finder tool.
NOVA, WGBH, Boston: Collaboration
Paula Apsell, Executive Producer
Contributing footage and transcripts, nano-related programs for sneak previews.
WBUR Radio, Boston University: Collaboration
Production of one-hour radio call-in discussion show on nanotechnology and health and safety regulations.
Twin-City Public Television: Collaboration
Richard Hudson, Executive Producer
Development of concepts for new Dragonfly TV series on nanotechnology.
PRI "Science Diaries" Radio Series: Collaboration
Jim Metzner, Executive Producer
Provided consultation on nanotech researchers to recruit for "Science Diaries."
Partners HealthCare, Boston: Collaboration
Susan Levine
Partners, Inc. invited C. L. Alpert to give a presentation on Net Media's experiments with YouTube science content at the January 2007 Science and Society Conference.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Bryan Kennedy
Net media tech development team participant (year one)
Exploratorium
Bill Meyer
Net media tech development team participant (year one)
London Science Museum
Dave Patten
Net media tech development team participant (year one)
Queens Public Libraries
Xelantha Philips
Discussion of potential "Careers in Nano" kiosk
YouTube
Web dissemination experiment