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A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder
Reer, Felix; Küpper, Lena Maria; Wintterlin, Florian; Quandt, ThorstenThe World Health Organization’s decision to include addictive game use (“gaming disorder”) in the International Classification of Diseases was the subject of controversial scientific debates (e.g., Aarseth et al., 2017; Rumpf et al., 2018; for an overview, see Reer & Quandt, 2021). However, knowledge is scarce on how addictive game use is perceived outside of academic circles (Schatto-Eckrodt et al., 2020). The...
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Cologna, Viktoria; Mede, Niels G.; Berger, Sebastian; Besley, John; Brick, Cameron; Joubert, Marina; Maibach, Edward W.; Mihelj, Sabina; Oreskes, NaomiScience is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and ...
Editorial: Science Communication in the Digital Age—New Actors, Environments, a...
Metag, Julia; Wintterlin, Florian; Klinger, KiraDigitalization challenges science communication in theoretical as well as methodological ways. It raises questions on how scientists, organizations, and institutions, as well as citizens and actors from other fields communicate about science and how science communication affects politics and the public. This thematic issue presents a collection of articles attempting to tackle digitalization’s challenge for sci...
Roots of Incivility: How Personality, Media Use, and Online Experiences Shape U...
Frischlich, Lena; Schatto-Eckrodt, Tim; Boberg, Svenja; Wintterlin, FlorianOnline media offer unprecedented access to digital public spheres, largely enhancing users’ opportunities for participation and providing new means for strengthening democratic discourse. At the same time, the last decades have demonstrated that online discourses are often characterised by so-called ‘dark participation’ the spreading of lies and incivility. Using ‘problematic behaviour theory’ as framework and ...