Publications

Recent papers & publications

Mede, Niels G (2022). Legacy media as inhibitors and drivers of public reservations against science: global survey evidence on the link between media use and anti-science attitudes. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(1):40.
Klinger, Kira; Metag, Julia; Schäfer, Mike S; Füchslin, Tobias; Mede, Niels (2022). Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data. Public Understanding of Science, 31(5):553-562.
Bearth, Angela; Kaptan, Gulbanu; Kessler, Sabrina Heike (2022). Genome-edited versus genetically-modified tomatoes: an experiment on people’s perceptions and acceptance of food biotechnology in the UK and Switzerland. Agriculture and Human Values:Epub ahead of print.
Zeng, Jing; Chan, Chung-Hong; Schäfer, Mike S (2022). Contested Chinese dreams of AI? Public discourse about artificial intelligence on WeChat and people’s daily online. Information, Communication and Society, 25(3):319-340.
Bromme, Rainer; Mede, Niels G; Thomm, Eva; Kremer, Bastian; Ziegler, Ricarda (2022). An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 17(2):e0262823.
Mahl, Daniela; Schäfer, Mike S; Zeng, Jing (2022). Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research. New Media & Society:Epub ahead of print.
Mede, Niels G; Schäfer, Mike S (2022). Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: a panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak. Public Understanding of Science, 31(2):211-222.
Wintterlin, Florian; Hendriks, Friederike; Mede, Niels G; Bromme, Rainer; Metag, Julia; Schäfer, Mike S (2022). Predicting Public Trust in Science: The Role of Basic Orientations Toward Science, Perceived Trustworthiness of Scientists, and Experiences With Science. Frontiers in Communication, 6:822757.
Kessler, Sabrina Heike; Bachmann, Eva (2022). Debunking health myths on the internet: the persuasive effect of (visual) online communication. Journal of Public Health:Epub ahead of print.
Kessler, Sabrina Heike; Schäfer, Mike S; Johann, David; Rauhut, Heiko (2022). Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication. Public Understanding of Science:Epub ahead of print.
Hellmueller, L; Hase, Valerie; Lindner, P (2022). Terrorist organizations in the news: a computational approach to measure media attention toward terrorism. Mass Communication and Society, 25(1):134-157.
Hase, Valerie; Mahl, Daniela; Schäfer, Mike S (2022). Der „Computational Turn“: ein „interdisziplinärer Turn“? Ein systematischer Überblick zur Nutzung der automatisierten Inhaltsanalyse in der Journalismusforschung. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 70(1-2):60-78.
Reifegerste, Doreen; Kessler, Sabrina Heike (2022). Digitales Self-Tracking aus historischer Perspektive. In: Schwarzenegger, Christian; Koenen, Erik; Pentzold, Christian. Digitale Kommunikation und Kommunikationsgeschichte: Perspektiven, Potentiale, Problemfelder. Berlin: Digital Communication Research, 249-273.
Zeng, Jing; Abidin, Crystal (2021). #OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok. Information, communication and society, 24(16):2459-2481.
Kessler, Sabrina Heike; Langmann, Klara (2021). The role of sex and gender on search behavior for political informationon the internet. Communications : European Journal of Communication Research, 46(4):516-539.
Schäfer, Mike S; Mahl, Daniela; Füchslin, Tobias; Metag, Julia; Zeng, Jing (2021). From Hype Cynics to Extreme Believers: Typologizing the Swiss Population’s COVID-19-Related Conspiracy Beliefs, Their Corresponding Information Behavior, and Social Media Use. International Journal of Business Communication, 16:2885-2910.
Baumgartner, Antonia; Fürst, Silke; Schönhagen, Philomen (2021). Conceptualizing the dialogical structure of mass communication: A comparison of the dialogical networks and mediated social communication approaches. Discourse, Context & Media, 44:100546.
Zeng, Jing; Schäfer, Mike S (2021). Conceptualizing “dark platforms”: Covid-19-related conspiracy theories on 8kun and Gab. Digital Journalism, 9(9):1208-1230.
Hase, Valerie; Mahl, Daniela; Schäfer, Mike S; Keller, Tobias R (2021). Climate change in news media across the globe: an automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018). Global Environmental Change, 70(102353):online.
Zeng, Jing; Chan, Chung-Hong (2021). A cross-national diagnosis of infodemics: comparing the topical and temporal features of misinformation around COVID-19 in China, India, the US, Germany and France. Online Information Review, 45(4):709-728.

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