This is a select list of publications by LSC faculty. For a complete list of faculty publications, please check individual faculty Google Scholar pages that are linked in their profiles.
How institutional factors at US land-grant universities impact scientists’ public scholarship.
Bao, L., Calice, M. N., Brossard, D., Beets, B., Scheufele, D. A., & Rose, K. M. (2023). Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662522109441
Surveying public perceptions of artificial intelligence in health care in the United States: Systematic review.
Beets, B., Newman, T. P., Howell, E. L., Bao, L., & Yang, S. (2023). Journal of Medical Internet Research. DOI: 10.2196/40337
When national identity meets conspiracies: the contagion of national identity language in public engagement and discourse about COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
Chen, A., Chen, K., Zhang, J., Meng, J., & Shen, C. (2023). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmac034
Climate change consensus messages cause reactance.
Chinn, S., & Hart, P. S. (2023). Environmental Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2021.1910530
Collateral damage from debunking mRNA vaccine misinformation.
Krause, N. M., Beets, B., Howell, E. L., Tosteson, H., & Scheufele, D. A. (2023). Vaccine. DOI: 10.1016%2Fj.vaccine.2022.12.045
Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change.
Li, N., Villanueva, I. I., Jilk, T., Van Matre, B. R., & Brossard, D. (2023). Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change. Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00856-9 …
Whose AI? How different publics think about AI and its social impacts.
Bao, L., Krause, N. M., Calice, M. N., Scheufele, D. A., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., Newman, T. P., & Xenos, M. A. (2022). Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107182
The chronic growing pains of communicating science online.
Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2022). Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abo0668
Public communication of soil conservation practices: A large-scale content analysis of Wisconsin’s agricultural trade publications.
Chen. K., & Shaw, B. (2022). Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. DOI: 10.2489/jswc.2022.00167
Can’t you all just get along? Effects of scientific disagreement and incivility on attention to and trust in science.
Chinn, S., & Hart, P. S. (2022). Science Communication. DOI: 10.1177/10755470211054446
The “infodemic” infodemic: Towards a more nuanced understanding of truth-claims and the need for (not) combatting misinformation.
Krause, N. M., Freiling, I., & Scheufele, D. A. (2022). The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. DOI: 10.1177/00027162221086263
Visual representations of SARS-CoV-2, emotions, and risk perception of COVID-19.
Li, N., Molder, A. L., & Yang, S. (2022). Health Science Reports. DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.496
Strategic science communication in the age of politicization.
Newman, T. P. (2022). Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization. DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2021.12.001
Krause, N. M., Freiling, I., Beets, B., & Brossard, D. (2020)
Fact-checking as risk communication: the multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19. Journal of Risk Research, 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1756385
Chen, K., Bao, L., Shao, A., Ho, P., Yang, S., Wirz, C., Brossard, D., Brauer, M., & Brown, L. (2020)
How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical time period: Communication lessons learnt from the American state of Wisconsin. Journal of Science Communication. DOI: 10.22323/2.19050211
Hart, P., Chinn, S., & Soroka, S. (2020)
Politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news coverage. Science Communication. DOI: 10.1177/1075547020950735
Powers, R., Li, N., Gibson, C., & Irlbeck, E. (2020)
Consumers’ evaluation of animal welfare labels on poultry products. Journal of Applied Communications. DOI: 10.4148/1051-0834.2310
Newman, T. P. (2020)
The Emergence of Science as a Political Brand. Journal of Political Marketing. DOI: 10.1080/15377857.2019.1652225
Nardi, A., Shaw, B., Brossard, D., & Drake, D. (2020)
Public attitudes toward urban foxes and coyotes: the roles of perceived risks and benefits, political ideology, ecological worldview, and attention to local news about urban wildlife. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2020.1748768
Boulianne, S., Chen, K., & Kahane, D. (2020)
Mobilizing mini-publics: The causal impact of deliberation on civic engagement using panel data. Politics. DOI: 10.1177/0263395720902982.
Scheufele, D. A., & Krause, N. M. (2019)
Science audiences, misinformation, and fake news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1805871115.
Brossard, D., Belluck, P., Gould, F., & Wirz, C. D. (2019)
Promises and perils of gene drives: Navigating the communication of complex, post-normal science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1805874115.
Witzling, L, Shaw, B. & Trecher, D. (2019)
Which communication channels shape normative perceptions about buying local food? An application of social exposure. Agriculture and Human Values. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09926-1
Meijer, A. J., Lips, M., & Chen, K. (2019)
Open Governance: A New Paradigm for Understanding Urban Governance in an Information Age. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2019.00003
Newman, T. P., Nisbet, E. C., Nisbet, M. C. (2018)
Climate change, cultural cognition, and media effects: Worldviews drive news selectivity, biased processing, and polarized attitudes. Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662518801170
Howell, E. L., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., Jamieson, K. H., Scheufele, D. A., Winneg, K. M., & Xenos, M. A. (2018)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on genetically engineered crops influences public discourse. Politics and the Life Sciences. DOI: 10.1017/pls.2018.12
Runge, K.K., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M.A. (2018)
Protective Progressives to Distrustful Traditionalists: A Post Hoc Segmentation Method for Science Communication Environmental Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2018.1513854
Witzling, L., Shaw, B. (2018)
Lifestyle segmentation and political ideology: Toward understanding beliefs and behavior about local food. Appetite, 132, 1, 106-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.10.003
Anderson, A. A., Yeo, S. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2018)
Toxic talk: How online incivility can undermine perceptions of media. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 30(1), 156-168. DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edw022
Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A., Howell, E. L., Rose, K. M., Brossard, D., & Hardy, B. W. (2017)
U.S. attitudes on human genome editing. Science, 357(6351), 553-554. DOI: 10.1126/science.aan3708
Runge, K. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Rose, K. M., & Larson, B. J. (2017)
The polls—Trends: Attitudes about food and food-related biotechnology. Public Opinion Quarterly. DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfw038
Kohl, P. (2017)
Using De-extinction to Create Extinct Species Proxies; Natural History not Included.Ethics, Policy & Environment, 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2017.1291832
Spartz, J.T., Su, L., Griffin, R, Brossard, D. & Dunwoody, S. (2017)
YouTube, social norms and perceived salience of climate change in the American mind. Environmental Communication, 11(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1047887
Simis, M.J., Madden, H., Cacciatore, M.A., Yeo, S.K. (2016)
The lure of rationality: Why does the deficit model persist in science communication? Public Understanding of Science, 25(4), 400-414. DOI: 10.1177/0963662516629749