Wissenschaftskommunikation mit dem Schwerpunkt Wirkung/Transfer
Wir forschen und lehren zu den Chancen und Risiken von Wissenschaftskommunikation in polarisierten gesellschaftlichen Kontroversen, z.B. zu den Debatten um die Regulierung von Genom Editierung, den Klimawandel, die Digitalisierung u.a.m.
Uns interessiert zum Beispiel, wie die Medien über diese Themen berichten, welche Akteure sich in diesen Debatten mit welchen Argumenten zu Wort melden, wie die Medieninhalte auf das Medienpublikum oder auf involvierte Akteure wirken (z. B. Wissenschaftler oder Umweltschützer) und wie sie politische oder gesellschaftliche Prozesse beeinflussen.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Schmid-Petri, H., Bienzeisler, N. & Beseler, A. (2022). Effects of politicization on the practice of science. In: T. Bolsen & R. Palm (Hrsg.), Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science Volume 188: Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization, 45–59.
Post, S., Bienzeisler, N., & Lohöfener, M. (2021). A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the CoViD-19 pandemic. Public Understanding of Science, doi: 09636625211005334
Brüggemann, M., Elgesem, D., Bienzeisler, N., Dedecek Gertz, H. & Walter, S. (2020). Mutual group polarization in the blogosphere: Tracking the hoax discourse on climate change. International Journal of Communication, 14, 1025–1048.
Post, S. (2019). Polarizing communication as media effects on antagonists. Understanding communication in conflicts in digital media societies. Communication Theory. Communication Theory 29(2), 231-235.
Post, S. & Ramirez, N. (2018). Politicized science communication. Predicting scientists’ acceptance of overstatements by their knowledge certainty, hostile media perceptions and presumptions of media effects on policymakers. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1177/1077699018769668
Post, S. (2017). Incivility in controversies. The influence of presumed media influence und perceived media hostility on the antagonists in the German conflict over aircraft noise. Communication Research 44(8), 1149–1175
Post, S. & M. Maier (2016). Stakeholders' rationales for representing uncertainties of biotechnological research. Public Understanding of Science 25(8), 927-943
Post, S. (2015). Scientific Objectivity in Journalism? How Journalists and Academics Define Objectivity, Assess its Attainability and Rate its Desirability. Journalism. Theory, Practice and Criticism 16(6), 730-749