Die Ausführungen in den vorherigen Kapiteln haben verdeutlicht, dass die politische
Öffentlichkeit eine zentrale Kategorie in der empirischen Untersuchung der …

How do individuals form opinions about new technologies? What role does factual
information play? We address these questions by incorporating 2 dynamics, typically …

Why are Americans who believe homosexuality is innate more likely to support the rights of
lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs)? Attribution theory suggests that people are more …

The study investigates fundamental mechanisms generating issue-attention cycles in news
coverage with a social simulation approach. An agent-based computer model is developed …

For novel issues like food nanotechnology, media can play an important role in sha** the
awareness and mental associations that underlie public opinion. Seeking to complement …

In February 2023, NASA began tracking a near-earth object (NEO, in this case an asteroid)
that they designated as having a non-zero probability of hitting the Earth. The European …

The search for an effective solution to control the COVID-19 pandemic has mobilized an
unprecedented effort by science to develop a vaccine against the disease, in which …

Für viele Menschen sind Medien die einzigen Zugänge zu verschiedenen Religionen.
Medien wirken also entscheidend mit, welche Bilder von diesen in der Gesellschaft …

Scholarly journals primarily address the scientific community to facilitate communication but
a few journals are regularly used as a source for issue selection in science journalism that …

Five nuclear power plant operate in Spain, one of the EU countries with less support for
nuclear energy. The aims of this investigation are to find out if news on nuclear power are …