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.
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, 39(3):1117-1131.
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, 31(6):711-731.
Kessler, Sabrina Heike; Bachmann, Eva (2022). Debunking health myths on the internet: the persuasive effect of (visual) online communication. Journal of Public Health, 30(8):1823-1835.
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.
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.
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.
Mede, Niels. Science-Related Populism – Conceptualization, Empirical Investigation, and Implications for Science Communication. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Hase, Valerie. Employing Computational Social Science to Analyze Coverage of Political Violence. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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.

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