College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
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 find that defining nanotechnology in terms of novel applications boosters public support for the technology but does not motivate individuals …
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 full text of the article is available here. The study is lead by LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and co-authored by …
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 nanotechnology develop in social media environments,” mapped social media traffic about nanotechnology, finding that Twitter traffic expressing opinion about nanotechnology is …
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 faculty members Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, as well as Elizabeth A. Corley, of the Center of Nanotechnology and Society and the …
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 Retention,” Ryan and Shaw argue that in order to counter declining participation in hunting, recruitment programs need to focus on …
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 role of Google searches in information-seeking on nanotechnology. The paper, “Information snapshots: What Google searches really tell us about emerging …
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 an Urban Natural Area: A Qualitative Inquiry,” appears in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Spartz and Shaw found …
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 preferences regarding flood protection policy in Mass Communication and Society. Their article is entitled, “There is Water Everywhere: How News Framing …
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 Department of Life Sciences Communication. But that support dropped substantially if those surveyed were told that ethanol could harm their …
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 titled “Virtual deliberation? Prospects and challenges for integrating the Internet in consensus conference”. Cacciatore and LSC Professor Dietram A. Scheufele (with ASU’s Elizabeth Corley), …