New research from LSC’s scimep lab, out this month in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, examining priming effects shows how a technology is defined can alter public perception. In the study, LSC alumna Ashley Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and colleagues …
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New SCIMEP research on effects of negative online comments published
New research from the Science, Media and the Public (SCIMEP) lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliated with LSC, on the adverse effects of negative comments online is out this week in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The …
LSC researchers publish on the development of nanotechnology discourses in social media environments
LSC doctoral student Kristin K. Runge and a team of Life Sciences Communication researchers have research on nanotechnology Twitter traffic in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. The study, “Tweeting nano: how public discourses about …
LSC researchers publish on operationalizations of scientific understanding in science and public policy
In an article in Science and Public Policy, LSC alumni Pete Ladwig (M.S., ’11) and Kajsa E. Dalrymple (Ph.D., ’11), now assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, along with …
LSC researchers discuss factors that improve hunter recruitment and retention
LSC doctoral candidate Beth Ryan and Assistant Professor Bret Shaw have published a review article in a recent issue of Human Dimensions of Wildlife on ways to improve hunter recruitment and retention. In the article, “Improving Hunter Recruitment and …
Researchers explore the role of Google searches in nanotechnology opinion formation
Doctoral student Xuan Liang, with coauthors doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson, Professor Dietram Scheufele, Associate Professor Dominique Brossard in Life Sciences Communication and Associate Professor Michael Xenos in Communication Arts, has published new research on the …
Researchers explore place meanings surrounding UW Arboretum as a public natural area
LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz, working with Assistant Professor Bret Shaw, recently published a paper exploring the varied and sometimes conflicting meanings associated with the UW Arboretum as a public natural area. Their article, “Place Meanings Surrounding …
LSC researchers explore the effect of news framing on preferences for flood protection policy
LSC alumnus Timothy K. F. Fung (Ph.D. 2010), along with Professor Dominique Brossard and Isabella Ng, a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of London, explore how news framing enhances ecological worldview …
Bret Shaw studies Wisconsin attitudes toward ethanol
A majority of Wisconsinites support the use of ethanol blends if it keeps dollars and jobs in the United States and reduces air pollution, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
LSC researchers publish on public understanding of science
LSC doctoral students Ashley Anderson and Michael Cacciatore with LSC Professor Dietram A. Scheufele, published in Public Understanding of Science this May 2011 issue. Anderson collaborated with Jason A. Delborne, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Mathilde Colin, and Maria Powell in an article …