Science and Media/Trust in Science and Scientists

Group discussions on the topic of “Science and media/Trust in science and scientists”

Project Partners

• Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken
• Dr. Anne Reif

Description

In the module "Methods of User, Reception, and Impact Research" of the master’s program in Media Technology and Communication in the summer semester of 2016, students deepened their knowledge on qualitative group discussions. Led by Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken and Dr. Anne Reif, the students planned, conducted and evaluated five structured group discussions with media users on the topic of "Science and media / Trust in science and scientists". The group discussions were part of Dr. Anne Reif's PhD project and the project on the trust relationship between society and science.

Publication

• Reif, A. (2021). Mehr Raum für Vertrauen? Potenzielle Veränderungen des Vertrauens in Wissenschaft durch partizipative Online-Umgebungen. In T. Döbler, C. Pentzold & C. Katzenbach (Eds.), Neue Schriften zur Online-Forschung: Vol. 16. Räume digitaler Kommunikation: Lokalität - Imagination - Visualisierung (1. edition, p. 210–243). Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Presentations

• Reif, A., & Taddicken, M. (2017, November 8-10). Das raumzeitliche Paradoxon: Wie Onlinemedien das Vertrauensverhältnis zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit verändern [Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Digital Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Hochschule Macromedia, Campus Stuttgart, Germany.
• Reif, A., & Taddicken, M. (2017, April). Vertrauen in Wissenschaft(ler*innen) aus Mediennutzer*innen-Sicht: Zur mehrdimensionalen Auswertung qualitativer Gruppendiskussionen. [Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Science Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.