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Two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, Academy members convened in Cambridge for a compelling discussion about trust in science that featured Naomi Oreskes and Sean Decatur in conversation with […]
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From an international cast of leading activist communicators, a timely and instructive handbook for telling stories that change the world. Over the past twenty years, social movements from DREAMers and […]
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The belief in democracy and democratic institutions is waning. Political malaise, populism and radicalization are widespread. Everywhere in the Western world not only newly arrived, but also native citizens need […]
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Many worry that news on social media leaves people uninformed or even misinformed. Here we conducted a preregistered two-wave online field experiment in France and Germany (N = 3,395) to estimate the […]
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How Stephen Jay Gould’s career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy. The question of public trust in science feels newly urgent, but today is not the first […]
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Science journalism in print and online media played a significant role in communicating science in COVID-19 public health information. Journalists translating messages on scientific advice to laypersons on a range […]
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The Emergence of “Online Influencers” and the Blurring of Lines between Objectivity and Subjectivity
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether, and to what extent, hosts of current affairs programmes in South Korea employ various modes of subjectivity in their radio broadcasts. […]
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People often learn about science from various sources including scientists, journalists, and friends. Many studies assume people pay different levels of attention to expert and non-expert sources. This foundational assumption […]
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This study explores the role of health influencers on X (formerly Twitter) in promoting N95 respirators, with a focus on the accuracy and completeness of the information shared. It evaluates […]
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We examined the effects of gentle and harsh satire on perceived trustworthiness of a scientist in an audio clip. Using a three-condition between-subjects survey experiment (N = 723), we found […]
