Publications

Viktoria Cologna, John Kotcher, Niels G. Mede, John C. Besley, Edward W. Maibach, Naomi Oreskes (2024). Trust in climate science and climate scientists: A narrative review. In PLoS Clim.

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Jannis Bulian, Mike S. Schäfer, Afra Amini, Heidi Lam, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Ben Gaiarin, Michelle Chen Hübscher, Christian Buck, Niels G. Mede, Markus Leippold, Nadine Strauß (2024). Assessing Large Language Models on climate information. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning*.

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Niels G. Mede, Ralph Schroeder (2024). The “Greta Effect” on social media: A systematic review of research on Thunberg’s impact on digital climate change communication. In Env Comm.

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Niels G. Mede, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer (2024). The interplay of knowledge overestimation, social media use, and populist ideas: Cross-sectional and experimental evidence from Germany and Taiwan. In Commun Res.

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Niels G. Mede (2023). Science-related populism: Conceptualization, empirical investigation, and implications for science communication (Dissertation Summary). In SComS.

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Niels G. Mede (2023). Variations of science-related populism in comparative perspective: A multilevel segmentation analysis of supporters and opponents of populist demands toward science. In Int J Comp Sociol.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag (2023). Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior. In Commun.

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Robert A. Huber, Niels G. Mede, Esther Greussing (2023). Populist attitudes towards politics and science: How do they differ?. In PRX.

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Niels G. Mede (2022). Science-related populism: Conceptualization, empirical investigation, and implications for science communication. Cumulative Thesis.

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Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag, Kira Klinger (2022). Who supports science-related populism? A nationally representative survey on the prevalence and explanatory factors of populist attitudes toward science in Switzerland. In PLoS One.

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Niels G. Mede (2022). Science communication in the face of skepticism, populism, and ignorance: What Don’t Look Up tells us about science denial — and what it doesn’t. In J Sci Commun.

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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.

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