Dietram A. Scheufele
Professor
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Office: 309 Hiram Smith Hall Phone: 608.262.1614 Email: scheufele@wisc.edu |
| Background | Teaching | Publications | Education |
Selected Recent Publications
Academic Outlets:
Ho, S. S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2008). Effects of value predispositions, mass media use, and knowledge on public attitudes toward embryonic stem cell research. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(2), 171-192.
Ho, S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2007). The Polls – Trends: Public reactions to global health threats and infectious diseases. Public Opinion Quarterly, 71(4), 671-692.
Scheufele, D. A., Corley, E. A., Dunwoody, S., Shih, T., Hillback, E., & Guston, D. (2007). Scientists worry about some risks more than the public. Nature Nanotechnology, 2(12), 732 - 734.
Shaw, B., Scheufele, D. A., & Catalano, S. (2007). The role of presence awareness in organizational communication: An exploratory field experiment. Behaviour & Information Technology, 26(5), 377-384.
Dalrymple, K., & Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Finally informing the electorate? How the Internet got people thinking about presidential politics in 2004. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12(3), 96-111.
Jacobson, C. A., Brown, T. L., & Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Gender-biased data in survey research regarding wildlife. Society & Natural Resources, 20(4), 373-377.
Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Spiral of silence theory. In W. Donsbach & M. Traugott (Eds.), Handbook of public opinion research (173-183). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Opinion climates, spirals of silence, and biotechnology: Public opinion as a heuristic for scientific decision making. In D. Brossard, J. Shanahan, and T. C. Nesbit (Eds.), The public, the media, and agricultural biotechnology: An international casebook (pp. 231-241). Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press/CABI.
Scheufele, D. A., & Tewksbury, D. (2007). Framing, agenda-setting, and priming: The evolution of three media effects models. Journal of Communication, 57(1), 9-20.
Scheufele, D. A., Kim, E., & Brossard, D. (2007). My friend’s enemy: How split-screen debate coverage influences evaluations of presidential debates. Communication Research, 34(1), 3-24.
Trade Publications and Popular Press:
Scheufele, D. A., & Corley, E. A. (2008). The science and ethics of good communication. Next Generation Pharmaceutical, 4(1), 66.
Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2008). Nanotechnology as a moral issue? Religion and science in the U.S. [Cover article]. AAAS Professional Ethics Report, 21(1), 1-3.
Nisbet, M. C., Scheufele, D. A. (2007). The future of public engagement [Cover article]. The Scientist, 21(10), 38-44.
Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Nano does not have a marketing problem … yet. Nano Today, 2(5), 48.
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