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The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects: Exploring practitioners' experiences and perceptions. 欧盟资助研究项目框架内的科学传播：探索实践者的经验和看法。
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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261433895
Luis Arboledas-Lérida
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Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions. 为什么做共同创造的公民社会科学这么难？反思挑战和潜在的解决方案。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261426841
Jörg Matthes, Isabelle Freiling
{"title":"Why is it so hard to do co-created citizen social science? Reflecting on challenges and potential solutions.","authors":"Jörg Matthes, Isabelle Freiling","doi":"10.1177/09636625261426841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261426841","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Citizen science (CS), which integrates the public into research processes, has been shown to enhance public understanding of science. Consequently, CS is increasingly employed across various disciplines, including the social sciences. In citizen social science (CSS) projects, citizen involvement typically extends beyond data collection, encompassing multiple stages of the research process-from conceptualization to data analysis. Despite the growing scholarly enthusiasm for CSS, this essay highlights key methodological and practical challenges associated with such co-created CSS initiatives. Using a systematic review of recent literature, we identify challenges across all consecutive steps of the research process involving co-creation. We conclude by advocating for a more nuanced perspective on CSS, emphasizing the need for a heightened awareness of these challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261426841"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147522037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Expertise as contingency-reduction: Evidence from interviews concerning Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine on German TV news. 专业知识作为应急减少：来自德国电视新闻中关于俄罗斯2022年入侵乌克兰的采访证据。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-03-22 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261425575
Monika Krause, Jan Gilles
{"title":"Expertise as contingency-reduction: Evidence from interviews concerning Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine on German TV news.","authors":"Monika Krause, Jan Gilles","doi":"10.1177/09636625261425575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261425575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyses interviews with experts on German television news concerning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in the context of debates about the public contribution of the social sciences and humanities. Considering the first 13 months of the war, we find that the questions put to experts are mostly not about Eastern Europe or Ukraine. Rather they concern the present and the future with reference to implications for a 'we' conceived as the viewing public in Germany. In their answers, academic experts do not draw on research, but they draw on academic knowledge to produce statements, which reduce the range of possible interpretations and outcomes using exclusion, scenarios and probabilities. Experts work to reduce contingency, a mode of 'doing expertise' that cannot be fairly characterized merely as a governance strategy and is not fully captured by debates between scientistic approaches to the social sciences and humanities and their critics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261425575"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147500159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Examining media coverage of ethical dimensions of advanced algorithmic technology. 检查媒体对先进算法技术伦理维度的报道。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261419755
Amanda M Vilchez, Sohinee Bera, Bruce V Lewenstein, Stephen Hilgartner
{"title":"Examining media coverage of ethical dimensions of advanced algorithmic technology.","authors":"Amanda M Vilchez, Sohinee Bera, Bruce V Lewenstein, Stephen Hilgartner","doi":"10.1177/09636625261419755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261419755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science into daily life raises ethical concerns and stimulates discussions among stakeholders responsible for their development. Given the media's role in shaping imaginaries of emerging technologies and their acceptance, this paper systematically analyzes media discourse on ethics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science from 2015 to 2020. Our results show that media coverage of advanced algorithmic technologies mainly focused on the industry sector, frequently addressing short-term challenges such as algorithmic bias, social justice, data privacy, and socioeconomic effects. Its portrayal in media often maintained a balanced perspective between positive and negative outcomes, paired with realistic and grounded future scenarios. This study offers a holistic and integrated analysis of how the media frames the ethics of artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, highlighting previously overlooked dimensions such as accountability strategies and the relationship between areas of application and their consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261419755"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147318603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Salesmen of science: A textual analysis of technological advancement and quantum physics in Oppenheimer (2023). 科学推销员：奥本海默（2023）对技术进步和量子物理的文本分析。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261423845
Erik Gustafson
{"title":"Salesmen of science: A textual analysis of technological advancement and quantum physics in <i>Oppenheimer</i> (2023).","authors":"Erik Gustafson","doi":"10.1177/09636625261423845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261423845","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The film <i>Oppenheimer</i> (2023) portrayed the Manhattan Project, which led to the first atomic bombs, and its aftermath. Shown through the eyes of Director J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film takes us through the scientific, political, and personal struggles of a wide array of characters during a time period that profoundly changed the landscape of the world. Through the film, the viewer learns not only about the Manhattan Project, but also about the quantum science underlying the atomic bomb, as well as the personal and political tensions that were intertwined with its development. Thus, the following article conducted a textual analysis to identify the ways in which the film portrays developments in quantum technologies. Three themes arose regarding the portrayals of development and key concepts in quantum physics. Broad implications are drawn for developments in quantum theory/mechanics and public development and understanding of science in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261423845"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147311190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Are relying on science and on religion to make sense of the world related to different domains of adaptive behavior and well-being? 依靠科学和宗教来理解世界与适应行为和幸福的不同领域有关吗？
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261424429
Crystal L Park, Joshua A Wilt, Adam B David
{"title":"Are relying on science and on religion to make sense of the world related to different domains of adaptive behavior and well-being?","authors":"Crystal L Park, Joshua A Wilt, Adam B David","doi":"10.1177/09636625261424429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261424429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals vary in their reliance on science and on religion to make sense of the world. We aimed to determine if these two approaches to making meaning differentially associated with specific domains of adaptive behaviors and well-being, and the extent to which these associations would be moderated by their conjoint (interactive) effects. Participants were 301 US adults who completed online surveys. Bivariate associations largely supported hypotheses-religious and science worldviews related to different types of adaptive behavior and well-being. However, when conjoint effects were considered, both reliance on religion and on science related to multiple behaviors spanning emotional and logical behaviors and well-being. The few interaction effects noted suggested that very high levels of either worldview were maladaptive. Findings highlight the need to consider and assess <i>both</i> reliance on religion and reliance on science and consider their conjoint effects when studying their potential for leading to adaptive behaviors and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261424429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Science communication in the wild. 野外的科学传播。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261419690
Sarah R Davies
{"title":"Science communication in the wild.","authors":"Sarah R Davies","doi":"10.1177/09636625261419690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261419690","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay argues for the need to understand and study science communication 'in the wild' - as a set of practices that are not only 'organised, explicit, and intended actions that aim to communicate scientific knowledge', but that take on a variety of other meanings as they are realised in particular contexts. I make this point by building on my experiences of studying science communication projects and by reflecting on their internal heterogeneity in terms of what they were 'about' for those organising them. By showing this diversity in the meanings of science communication to those carrying it out, and in particular how this is exacerbated by the conditions of precarity and scarcity that frequently frame science communication activities, I argue for the importance of understanding science communication practice as not only being 'about' the communication or negotiation of scientific knowledge, but myriad other aspects, from personal prestige to the need for a job.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261419690"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146208320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Conspiracy belief is a conspiracy. 阴谋信仰是一种阴谋。
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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261416076
Philip J Wilson
{"title":"Conspiracy belief is a conspiracy.","authors":"Philip J Wilson","doi":"10.1177/09636625261416076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261416076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The public is said to be misled by Internet fakery amplified by social media, which contributes to conspiracy belief among those on the political right who feel dispossessed and powerless. In fact, conspiracy belief is difficult to attribute to any one political complexion or social stratum. Uncritical social surveys, especially if taken too literally, easily misrepresent conservative respondents, and the consequent negativity towards them is often exaggerated. Those accusing others of conspiracy belief are at least equally susceptible to the alleged predisposing factor of motivated reasoning.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261416076"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146203306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Intersecting nexus of politics and science: Heterogeneous typologies of climate change skepticism discourse in China. 政治与科学的交叉联系：中国气候变化怀疑论话语的异质类型。
IF 3.3 2区 文学
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261417544
Xiaotong Chen, Ruoyu Ni
{"title":"Intersecting nexus of politics and science: Heterogeneous typologies of climate change skepticism discourse in China.","authors":"Xiaotong Chen, Ruoyu Ni","doi":"10.1177/09636625261417544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261417544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a pervasive social phenomenon, climate change skepticism has been extensively studied in Western contexts, where it is deeply intertwined with local sociopolitical structures. In China, despite the government's firm commitment to mitigation, a growing trend of public skepticism has emerged online. Using a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of 2426 climate skeptical posts on <i>Zhihu</i>, China's largest knowledge-sharing platform, this study examined how Chinese skeptics construct their discourse. Our findings revealed that Chinese climate skeptics do not merely reject scientific evidence; instead, they frame their arguments through a synthesis of national identity, geopolitical conflicts, and cultural-historical narratives, invoking climate justice claims at both domestic and international levels. Building on these insights, our research proposed a \"scientific-political framework\" that distinguishes four subtypes of Chinese climate skepticism: \"Geopolitical Construct,\" \"Western Conspiracy,\" \"Natural Variability,\" and \"Indifferent Fatalism.\" By shedding light on the context-specific configurations of skepticism discourse, this study contributes to a deeper theoretical understanding of climate skepticism in non-Western contexts, while also prompting critical reflection on China's long-standing over-politicized model of climate change communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261417544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146167275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Are supernatural beliefs and scientific attitudes in conflict over individual health behaviours? An empirical study on cancer-prevention behaviours among middle-aged and senior Chinese. 超自然信仰和科学态度在个人健康行为方面是否存在冲突？中国中老年人群癌症预防行为的实证研究
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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1177/09636625261417633
Qinliang Liu, Hepeng Jia
{"title":"Are supernatural beliefs and scientific attitudes in conflict over individual health behaviours? An empirical study on cancer-prevention behaviours among middle-aged and senior Chinese.","authors":"Qinliang Liu, Hepeng Jia","doi":"10.1177/09636625261417633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625261417633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 'conflict thesis' between scientific and supernatural beliefs has attracted considerable intellectual interest. However, empirical studies examining its impact on health behaviours are scarce. To address this gap, drawing on the Health Locus of Control (HLOC) theory, we developed an integrated dual-pathway cognitive model to explore how these conflicting attitudes compete and how they influence health behaviours differently. In an online survey conducted with 673 middle-aged and older Chinese adults, we found that supernatural beliefs did not directly conflict with scientific attitudes. Instead, they competed in predicting cancer-prevention behaviours through their associated sub-beliefs - specifically, cancer fatalism and cancer controllability. Our findings do not support a root-level 'conflict thesis' but instead support a downstream-level 'conflict thesis'. This finding adds to the literature on the 'conflict thesis' and enhances our understanding of how conflict manifests in the cancer-prevention setting. The cultural specificity and generalizability of this study are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"9636625261417633"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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