Publications

Rainer Bromme, Niels G. Mede, Eva Thomm, Bastian Kremer, Ricarda Ziegler (2022). An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. In PLoS One.

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Niels G. Mede (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. In Humanit Soc Sci Commun.

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Kira Klinger, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin, Niels G. Mede (2022). Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data. In Public Underst Sci.

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Florian Wintterlin, Friederike Hendriks, Niels G. Mede, Rainer Bromme, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer (2022). Predicting public trust in science: The role of basic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness of scientists, and experiences with science. In Front Commun.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer (2022). Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak. In Public Underst Sci.

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Niels G. Mede (2021). Charakteristika der Forschung zu Wirkungen digitaler Wissenschaftskommunikation: Ein Systematic Review der Fachliteratur. In BBAW (2021) Wissenschaftspolitik im Dialog: Vol. 17.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin (2021). The SciPop Scale for measuring science-related populist attitudes in surveys: Development, test, and validation. In Int J Public Opin Res.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Ricarda Ziegler, Markus Weißkopf (2021). The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research. In Public Underst Sci.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer (2020). Kritik der Wissenschaftskommunikation und ihrer Analyse: PUS, PEST, Politisierung und wissenschaftsbezogener Populismus. In Bucher (2020) Medienkritik.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer (2020). Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science. In Public Underst Sci.

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Sabrina H. Kessler, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer (2020). Eyeing CRISPR gene editing: Using eye tracking to assess what lay audiences look for to learn more about CRISPR and genetic engineering on Wikipedia. In Env Comm.