If you are interested in our research, this is your year! The division "Science, crisis and risk communication" lead by Mike Schäfer has had 22 presentations accepted for 2019 so far. May it be trust in science, citizen science, terrorism in the news, bots or pseudo users: We will be giving talks on all of these issues and more throughout the year. Here's a list of conferences at which you will find us:
- Badura, L., Engelke, K., & Hase, V. (2019). Incomplete, Erroneous, and Distorted Information? The Metajournalistic Discourse about the Risks of News Media Use for Recipients. Presentation at the Journalism Studies Section Conference of the ECREA 2019 in Vienna (Austria), 14.-15. February.
- Füchslin, T. (2019) Who Wants To Be a Citizen Scientist? Identifying General Characteristics and Specific Audiences of Potential Citizen Scientists in Switzerland. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Section Science Communication of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Braunschweig (Germany), 6.-8. February.
- Füchslin, T., Schäfer, M., & Metag, J. (2019) Who Wants To Be a Citizen Scientist? Identifying the Overall Democratic Potential of Citizen Science and Target Segments in Switzerland and Germany. Presentation at the 72nd Annual World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Conference in Toronto (Canada), 19.-21. May.
- Füchslin, T., Schäfer, M., Metag, J. (2019) Who Wants To Be a Citizen Scientist? Identifying the Overall Potential of Citizen Science and Target Segments in Switzerland. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Engelmann, I., Kessler, S. H., & Lübke, S. (2019). The Role of News Cues for News Attention and News Clicking on a News Aggregator Website. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Hase, V., Engelke, K., & Kieslich, K. (2019). Angst vor Terror, Klimawandel & Arbeitslosigkeit? Eine automatisierte Inhaltsanalyse von Themen und Trends im Kontext von Angst in den Medien. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Münster (Germany), 9.-11. May.
- Hase, V., Kieslich, K., & Engelke, K. (2019). The Things We Fear – Using Automated Content Analysis to Uncover How UK and US Media Construct Fear over Time (1990-2017). Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Hellmüller, L., Hase, V., & Lindner, P. (2019). Terrorism in the News: Explaining Mediated Visibility of Organized Violence. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Keller, T., Schäfer, S., Klinger, U., & Mahl, D. (2019). Social Bots in Science Communication: Bot Prevalence and Activity about Ten Science-Related Issues on Twitter. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Kessler, S. H. (2019). Wissenschaftliche Untersuchung digitaler Kommunikation - Methoden der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Presentation at the Winter Congress of the Digital Society in Zurich (Switzerland), 23. February.
- Kessler, S. H. & Mede, N. G. (2019). Quelle: Wikipedia. Wissenschaftliche Befunde zur digitalen Informationssuche. Presentation at the Winter Congress of the Digital Society in Zurich (Switzerland), 23. February.
- Koch, C., Herrmann-Giovanelli, I., Saner, M., Schäfer, M., & Metag, J. (2019). User Segments of Science Communication Under the Magnifying Glass: Eine Smartphone-gestützte, qualitative Vertiefungsstudie zum «Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz». Evidenzbasierung und Emotionsmodus? Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Section Science Communication of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Braunschweig (Germany), 6.-8. February.
- Martini, F., Keller, T., Klinger, U., Samula, P. (2019). Social Bots als Diskursteilnehmer: Eine vergleichende Perspektive. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Münster (Germany), 9.-11. May.
- Mede, N. G. (2019). Fake It till They Take It? Pseudo User Effects and Pseudo User Literacy. Presentation at the General Online Research 2019 of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) in Cologne (Germany), 6.-8. March.
- Rauchfleisch, A., Schäfer, S., & Siegen, D (2019). Scholars’ Contacts with Journalists, Politicians and Industry Representatives in the Age of Postnormal Science. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Washington DC (USA), 24.-28. May.
- Reifegerste, D. & Kessler, S. H. (2019). Digitales Self-tracking aus historischer Perspektive. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Section Digital Communication of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Bremen (Germany), 17. January.
- Samula, P., Keller, T. R., Klinger, U., Martini, F. (2019). It's complicated: Methoden zur Identifizierung von Social Bots im Vergleich. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Section Political Commununication of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Duisburg (Germany), 7.-9. February
- Schäfer, M. (2019). Der Klimawandel in der Öffentlichkeit. Presentation at the Nachhaltigkeitswoche Zürich, Zurich (Switzerland), 6. March.
- Schäfer, M. (2019). Crowdfunding Science: Potentials and Pitfalls. Presentation at the Athabasca University Research Forum “Research Beyond the Norms”, Athabasca (Canada), 25. April
- Schäfer, M. (2019). Wissenschaftskommunikation in turbulenten Zeiten. Public lecture at the University of Wuppertal (Germany), 22. May.
- Schäfer, M. (2019). Trusting Science, Trusting the Media. Keynote at the Autmn School at the Training Research Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World”, University of Muenster, Muenster (Germany), 22. November.
- Zeng, J., Chan, C-H, & Schäfer, M.(2019) Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Analyzing discourse on artificial intelligence on WeChat and the People’s Daily between 2015 and 2018. Presentation at CMSTW2 019 St. Petersburg, Russia April 16–18.