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  1. Personalized Persuasion Through Conversational AI: Can DeepSeek Change Perceptions of Genetically Modified Foods in China?

    Article • Media and Communication, March 2026, Cogitatio

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  2. Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)

    Article • Big Data & Society, March 2026, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  3. Strengthening practice-research connections to improve evaluation: perspectives of science communication practitioners

    Article • Journal of Science Communication, December 2025, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  4. Long-term media effects on public attitudes toward science in Switzerland: A panel survey of the Swiss population

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  5. Comparing science communication ecosystems: towards a conceptual framework for cross-national research on science communication

    Article • Journal of Science Communication, October 2025, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  6. Correction to: Multimodal climate change communication on WeChat: analyzing visual/textual clusters on China’s largest social media platform

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  7. Multimodal climate change communication on WeChat: analyzing visual/textual clusters on China’s largest social media platform

    Article • Climatic Change, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  8. Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  9. Conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media: An international expert assessment of challenges, trends, and interventions

    Article • Communications, May 2025, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  10. Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence

    Article • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  11. Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media

    Article • Science Communication, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  12. Measuring Science Literacy in a Digital World: Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Survey Scale

    Article • Science Communication, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  13. Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  14. Open Access: Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab

    Article • December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  15. How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  16. The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  17. From “minimalists” to “professional all-rounders”: Typologizing Swiss universities’ communication practices and structures

    Article • Communications, August 2024, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  18. “It’s Not so Easy to Measure impact”: A Qualitative Analysis of How Universities Measure and Evaluate Their Communication

    Article • International Journal of Strategic Communication, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  19. Platforms matter: analyzing user engagement with social media content of Swiss higher education institutions

    Article • Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  20. Imaginaries of artificial intelligence

    Article • November 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  21. Media representations of artificial intelligence: surveying the field

    Article • November 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  22. From “Climate Change” to “Climate Crisis”?

    Article • Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, August 2023, Universtity of Bergen Library

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  23. Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior

    Article • Communications, May 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  24. The Notorious GPT: science communication in the age of artificial intelligence

    Article • Journal of Science Communication, May 2023, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  25. Conceptualizing platformed conspiracism: Analytical framework and empirical case study of BitChute and Gab

    Article • New Media & Society, March 2023, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  26. Big data and computational methods

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  27. Global Warming's Five Germanys – Revisited and Framed in an International Context

    Article • Environmental Communication, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  28. Computational methods for the analysis of climate change communication: Towards an integrative and reflexive approach

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, November 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  29. Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  30. Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research

    Article • New Media & Society, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  31. Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  32. Mapping mental models of science communication: How academics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland understand and practice science communication

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  33. Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  34. Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)

    Article • Global Environmental Change, September 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  35. Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab

    Article • Digital Journalism, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  36. Using Machine Learning to Learn Machines: A Cross-Cultural Study of Users’ Responses to Machine-Generated Artworks

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  37. The “replication crisis” in the public eye: Germans’ awareness and perceptions of the (ir)reproducibility of scientific research

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  38. Climate journalism in a changing media ecosystem: Assessing the production of climate change‐related news around the world

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, August 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  39. Communicating science in organizational contexts: toward an “organizational turn” in science communication research

    Article • Journal of Communication Management, August 2020, Emerald

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  40. Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

    Article • Information Communication & Society, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  41. Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  42. “We are a Bit Blind About it”: A Qualitative Analysis of Climate Change-Related Perceptions and Communication Across South African Communities

    Article • Environmental Communication, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  43. Eyeing CRISPR on Wikipedia: Using Eye Tracking to Assess What Lay Audiences Look for to Learn about CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

    Article • Environmental Communication, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  44. Science communication research in the German-speaking countries: A content analysis of conference abstracts

    Article • Studies in Communication Sciences, February 2020, SComS

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

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

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer, Carmen Koch

  46. Birte Fähnrich, Julia Metag, Senja Post, Mike S. Schäfer (Hrsg.): Forschungsfeld Hochschulkommunikation

    Article • Publizistik, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  47. News Media Coverage of Climate Change in India 1997–2016: Using Automated Content Analysis to Assess Themes and Topics

    Article • Environmental Communication, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

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

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, June 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  49. Audience Segments in Environmental and Science Communication: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives

    Article • Environmental Communication, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  50. Selling science 2.0: What scientific projects receive crowdfunding online?

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  51. Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation

    Article • Global Environmental Change, October 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  52. Irene Neverla / Mike S. Schäfer (Hrsg.) (2012): Das Medien-Klima. Fragen und Befunde der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS

    Article • Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, January 2013, Nomos Verlag

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  53. Online communication on climate change and climate politics: a literature review

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, September 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  54. Mediatisierung: Medienerfahrungen und -orientierungen deutscher Klimawissenschaftler

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  55. Das Medien-Klima

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  56. Issue-Attention: Mediale Aufmerksamkeit für den Klimawandel in 26 Ländern

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  57. Einleitung: Der Klimawandel und das „Medien-Klima“

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  58. Post-Normal Climate Science

    Article • Nature and Culture, January 2012, Berghahn Journals

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  59. Sources, Characteristics and Effects of Mass Media Communication on Science: A Review of the Literature, Current Trends and Areas for Future Research

    Article • Sociology Compass, May 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  60. Terrorismus im Fernsehen

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  61. Is the internet a better public sphere? Comparing old and new media in the USA and Germany

    Article • New Media & Society, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  62. Fans und Emotionen

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  63. Fans in theoretischer Perspektive

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  64. Fans und Partizipation

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  65. Einleitung: Fans als Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  66. Fans

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  67. Repercussion and resistance. An empirical study on the interrelation between science and mass media

    Article • Communications, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  68. Gender Equality in the European Union: The EU Script and its Support by European Citizens

    Article • Sociology, June 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  69. Two normative models of science in the public sphere: human genome sequencing in German and US mass media

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  70. Senja Post (2008): Klimakatastrophe oder Katastrophenklima? Die Berichterstattung über den Klimawandel aus Sicht der Klimaforscher Baden-Baden: Nomos

    Article • Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, January 2009, Nomos Verlag

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  71. Einheit in Vielfalt?: Vorstellungen von der Europäischen Union in deutschen Pressekommentaren zum Türkei-Beitritt

    Article • Sociologia Internationalis, December 2008, Duncker & Humblot GmbH

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  72. From Public Understanding to Public Engagement

    Article • Science Communication, November 2008, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  73. Diskurskoalitionen in den Massenmedien

    Article • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  74. Demokratische Internet-Öffentlichkeit? Ein Vergleich der öffentlichen Kommunikation im Internet und in den Printmedien am Beispiel der Humangenomforschung

    Article • Publizistik, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  75. The ‘Book of Life’ in the Press

    Article • Social Studies of Science, February 2005, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  76. Matthias Kohring: Vertrauen in Journalismus. Theorie und Empirie

    Article • Publizistik, September 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer

  77. Peter Weingart: Wissenschaftssoziologie

    Article • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer