Description
Internet technologies and specifically social media have drastically changed science communication. The public no longer merely consume science-related information but participate (for example, by rating and disseminating) and generate their own content. Likewise, scientists are no longer dependent on journalists as gatekeepers to spreading relevant information. This paper identifies and reflects on relevant theoretical strands that help to inform theoretical frameworks and research agendas.
In this scientific network, we discuss the technological structures and resulting affordances, a new knowledge order and its actors, as well as trust and rationality as important constructs. We strieve to achieve different kinds of outcome: theoretical, methodological and empirical.
Work Programme
Network Group
Duration
2022 – 2024
Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig and head of Institute for Communication Science (since 2014)
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig | Institute for Communication Science
Professor at University Duisburg-Essen (since 2007) and Founding Director of the Research Center “Trustworthy Data Science and Security” (since 2021)
University Duisburg-Essen | Social Psychology, Media and Communication
Professor for Communication and Digital Society
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Professor at the University of Augsburg (since 2010), Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research and Director of the Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication
University Augsburg| Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication
Assistant Professor at Tilburg University (since 2018)
Tilburg University | Department of Communication and Cognition
Senior-Professor at the Psychology Department of the University of Muenster
Universitaet Muenster | Institute for Psychology
Associate Professor at Faculty of Arts and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University
Aarhus University | Department of English, School of Communication and Culture
Professor for Communication Science
LMU Munich | Department of Media and Communication
Junior Research Group Leader at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (since 2021)
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig | Institute for Communication Science & Institute of Educational Psychology
Professor of Marketing at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Munich (since 2022)
IU International University of Applied Sciences | Marketing and Communication
University of Vienna | Department of Communication
Executive Director at Centre for Teaching in Higher Education (ZHL)
WWU University of Muenster
Professor at the Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London | School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Professor of the Psychology of Communication and Media Use at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Institute of Communication Science
Professor of Media Psychology at theUniversity of Koblenz-Landau (since 2018)
University of Koblenz-Landau | Department of Psychology | Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education
Associate Professor in Corporate Communication at University of Amsterdam and Co-Director of the Environmental Communication Lab (ECoLab, Amsterdam)
University of Amsterdam | Department of Communication Science
Guests: Assoc.-Prof. Michael Cacciatore (University of Georgia) and Prof. Dr. Dietram A. Scheufele (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Guests: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr (University of Vienna) and Prof. Dr. Michael Scharkow (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Guests: Prof. Dr. Stephen Lewandowsky (University of Potsdam) and Prof. Dr. Mike Schäfer (University of Zurich)
Guest: Prof. Dr. Christoph Neuberger (Freie Universität Berlin)
