PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE

Fostering public trust in science: The role of social media

Beyond reporting statistical significance: Identifying informative effect sizes to improve scientific communication

Distinguishing scientific knowledge: The impact of different measures of knowledge on genetically modified food attitudes

Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition

Who wants to be a citizen scientist? Identifying the potential of citizen science and target segments in Switzerland

The elephant in the room: How a technology’s name affects its interpretation

A comparison between scientists’ and communication scholars’ views about scientists’ public engagement activities

‘Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear’: Online anti-vaccination websites and ‘anti-public’ discourse

Responsibility, rationality, and acceptance: How future users of autonomous driving are constructed in stakeholders’ sociotechnical imaginaries

The independent reinforcement effect: The role diverse social ties play in the credibility assessment process

Public perceptions of who counts as a scientist for controversial science

From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure

Science journalism for development in the Global South: A systematic literature review of issues and challenges

Is science for atheists? Perceived threat to religious cultural authority explains U.S. Christians’ distrust in secularized science

Explaining science funding attitudes in the United States: The case for science interest

Americans’ views of scientists’ motivations for scientific work

Does media exposure relate to the illusion of knowing in the public understanding of climate change?

Scientists vs laypeople: How genetically modified food is discussed on a Chinese Q&A website

A Twitter campaign against pseudoscience: The sceptical discourse on complementary therapies in Spain

Content, evaluations and influences in newspaper coverage of predictive genetic testing: A comparative media content analysis from the United Kingdom and Switzerland

Experiences and expertise of codependency: Repetition, claim-coupling, and enthusiasm

Do newspapers preferentially cover biomedical studies involving national scientists?

Wind, power, and the situatedness of community engagement

Science-religion compatibility beliefs across Middle Eastern and American young adult samples: The role of cross-cultural exposure

Negotiating climate change: A frame analysis of COP21 in British, American, and Chinese news media

‘Human’ or ‘objective’ faces of science? Gender stereotypes and the representation of scientists in the media

Why scream about sound in space? The functions of audience discourse about unrealistic science in narrative fiction

Disgusting microbes: The effect of disgust on perceptions of risks related to modifying microbiomes

Galaxy zoo: Science content knowledge of citizen scientists

Trust/distrust judgments and perceptions of climate science: A research note on skeptics’ rationalizations

‘It’s a family affair’: The discursive entanglement of social formations in public and private cord blood banking in Italy

Conversion messages and attitude change: Strong arguments, not costly signals

Abstract or concrete? The effect of climate change images on people’s estimation of egocentric psychological distance

Lifestyles and gratifications obtained from news: Comparing science news with health news and political news

Stakeholder relations in Australian science journalism

Researching multiple publics through latent profile analysis: Similarities and differences in science and technology attitudes in China, Japan, South Korea and the United States

Scientific truth or debate: On the link between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change

The critical reception of the DSM-5: Towards a typology of audiences

Secularism in science: The role of religious affiliation in assessments of scientists’ trustworthiness

1962: ‘What manner of men?’: Meeting scientists through television

Constructing publics in museums’ science communication

The good despot: Technology firms’ interventions in the public sphere

Attitudes and perceptions of Conacyt researchers towards public communication of science and technology

“Space means Science, unless it’s about Star Wars”: A qualitative assessment of science communication audience segments

Let the buyer beware: Content analysis of cosmetic surgery websites’ provider information

Public responses to scientific research: Does disciplinary attribution matter?

Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China