The volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. For scholars/students in science communication, cultural studies, information technologies, and sociology.

Contents: S. Braman, Introduction. Part I: The Technologies of Biology and Communication.S. Braman, The Meta-Technologies of Information. Part II: The Concept of Information.D. Ritchie, Information as Metaphor: Biology and Communication. S.S. Wildman, Conditional Expectations Communication and the Impact of Biotechnology. S. Braman, "Are Facts Not Flowers?": Facticity and Genetic Information. Part III: The Ownership of Information.C. May, Justifying Enclosure? Intellectual Property and Meta-Technologies. L. Lievrouw, Biotechnology, Intellectual Property, and the Prospects for Scientific Communication. Part IV: Information and Power.S.H. Priest, T.T. Eyck, Transborder Information, Local Resistance, and the Spiral of Silence: Biotechnology and Public Opinion in the United States. S. Best, D. Kellner, Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning. G. Murdock, Popular Representation and Postnormal Science: The Struggle Over Genetically Modified Foods.