Life Sciences, Society and Policy Pub Date : 2018-06-24 , DOI: 10.1186/s40504-018-0079-9 Martin Döring 1
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Abstract
Synthetic biology (SynBio) represents a relatively young field of research which has developed into an important scientific endeavour. Characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinary work crossing disciplinary boundaries, such as biology, mathematics and engineering, SynBio has been, since its beginning, devoted to creating new biological functions, metabolic pathways or even minimal organisms. Although its often-articulated aim of developing new forms of life has so far not been archived, SynBio nowadays represents a well-established biotechnological approach and it has also attracted public concern, especially since Craig Venter’s work on Mycoplasma Mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. Taking these developments as a starting point, the paper empirically investigates the metaphorical representations of SynBio in two leading German media publications, the daily newspaper Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the weekly magazine Der Spiegel between 2000 and 2010. Using a novel combination of metaphor and co-occurrence analysis, the paper engages in a systematic examination of implicit moral implications inherent in linguistic images permeating this news coverage. It demonstrates a method of how media-metaphorical representations and their moral implications of SynBio could analytically be revealed and analysed. In doing so, it aims at contributing to empirical ethical analyses of the news coverage on SynBio in particular and offers an approach that methodologically adds to literature on responsible language use, which is emerging in science and technology studies and ethical analyses of new technologies.
中文翻译：
德国媒体中的合成生物学：隐喻的含义如何塑造道德和责任的表征
抽象的
合成生物学（SynBio）代表了一个相对年轻的研究领域，现已发展成为一项重要的科学事业。 SynBio以跨生物学、数学和工程学等学科界限的高度跨学科工作为特点，自成立以来一直致力于创造新的生物功能、代谢途径甚至最小生物体。尽管迄今为止其经常阐明的开发新生命形式的目标尚未被存档，但 SynBio 如今代表了一种成熟的生物技术方法，并且也引起了公众的关注，特别是自从 Craig Venter 对 Mycoplasma Mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 的研究以来。以这些发展为起点，本文实证研究了 2000 年至 2010 年间德国两家主要媒体出版物《法兰克福汇报》和《明镜周刊》周刊对 SynBio 的隐喻表述。 -事件分析，本文对贯穿新闻报道的语言图像中固有的隐含道德含义进行了系统的检查。它展示了一种如何分析揭示和分析 SynBio 的媒体隐喻表征及其道德含义的方法。这样做的目的是为合成生物新闻报道的实证伦理分析做出贡献，并提供一种在方法上增加负责任语言使用文献的方法，这种方法正在科学技术研究和新技术的伦理分析中出现。
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