journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38282355/who-are-the-publics-engaging-in-ai
#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Renée Sieber, Ana Brandusescu, Abigail Adu-Daako, Suthee Sangiambut
Given the importance of public engagement in governments' adoption of artificial intelligence systems, artificial intelligence researchers and practitioners spend little time reflecting on who those publics are. Classifying publics affects assumptions and affordances attributed to the publics' ability to contribute to policy or knowledge production. Further complicating definitions are the publics' role in artificial intelligence production and optimization. Our structured analysis of the corpus used a mixed method, where algorithmic generation of search terms allowed us to examine approximately 2500 articles and provided the foundation to conduct an extensive systematic literature review of approximately 100 documents...
January 28, 2024: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38243813/counteracting-climate-denial-a-systematic-review
#22
REVIEW
Laila Mendy, Mikael Karlsson, Daniel Lindvall
Despite scientific consensus on climate change, climate denial is still widespread. While much research has characterised climate denial, comparatively fewer studies have systematically examined how to counteract it. This review fills this gap by exploring the research about counteracting climate denial, the effectiveness and the intentions behind intervention. Through a systematic selection and analysis of 65 scientific articles, this review finds multiple intervention forms, including education, message framing and inoculation...
January 20, 2024: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38243812/what-if-some-people-just-do-not-like-science-how-personality-traits-relate-to-attitudes-toward-science-and-technology
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon Fuglsang
As societal discussion on the public opinion of science and technology ignites over and over again, understanding where such opinions are rooted is increasingly relevant. A handful of prior studies have suggested personality traits as a root of science and technology attitudes. However, these report mixed findings, and employ small student or convenience samples. This leaves considerable uncertainty regarding personality traits' relation to attitudes toward science and technology. If in fact stable psychological predispositions play a role, this has considerable implications for science policy and science communication...
January 20, 2024: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38243800/communicating-uncertainties-regarding-covid-19-vaccination-moderating-roles-of-trust-in-science-government-and-society
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jarim Kim, Jiyeon Lee, Jinha Baek, Jiyeon Ju
This study examined how uncertainty affects information seeking and avoidance behaviors via information insufficiency in the COVID-19 vaccination context. It also investigated how trust in science, government, and society moderate the effects of information insufficiency. An online experiment with 131 Korean adults showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information seeking intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by science trust and governmental trust. It also showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information avoidance intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by social trust...
January 20, 2024: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38230419/online-politicizations-of-science-contestation-versus-denialism-at-the-convergence-between-covid-19-and-climate-science-on-twitter
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Donya Alinejad, Ali Honari
This study investigates how scientific knowledge is politicized on Twitter. Identifying discursive modes of online politicization and analyzing how they relate to different online issue publics allows us to weigh in on the scholarly debate about when the politicization of science on social media becomes problematic in a democratic context. This is a complicated question in "knowledge societies" where increasing science-politics confluence means that some degree of politicization is necessary for science-informed policymaking and (online) public debate...
January 17, 2024: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38160402/credibility-of-misinformation-source-moderates-the-effectiveness-of-corrective-messages-on-social-media
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Huai-Kuan Zeng, Shih-Yu Lo, Shu-Chu Sarrina Li
To examine how different features of corrective messages moderate individuals' attitudes toward misinformation on social media, a 2 (misinformation source credibility: high vs low) × 2 (corrective message source: algorithmic vs peer correction) × 2 (correction type: factual elaboration vs simple rebuttal) between-subjects experiment was conducted. To reduce perceived credibility and respondents' attitudes toward the misinformation, peer corrections were more effective than algorithmic corrections for misinformation from a source with lower credibility; for misinformation from a highly credible source, the superiority effect of peer corrections was still significant on perceived credibility but not on respondents' attitudes toward the misinformation...
December 31, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38160396/delineating-between-scientism-and-science-enthusiasm-challenges-in-measuring-scientism-and-the-development-of-novel-scale
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Petar Lukić, Iris Žeželj
Scientism proposes science to be an all-powerful human enterprise, able to answer not only all practical but also philosophical or moral questions. We are taking a psychological approach to scientism, studying uncritical trust in science and uncritical trust in scientists as a part of a unique attitudinal tendency. Our novel measure assesses both kinds of trust through short Thurstone scales allowing us to establish a clear threshold for endorsing scientism, thus effectively delineating it from science enthusiasm, which previous instruments were unable to do...
December 31, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38140835/institutional-and-non-institutional-news-trust-as-predictors-of-covid-19-beliefs-evidence-from-three-european-countries
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ángel Arrese
The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an infodemic in which trust in news played an essential role. This article analyzes how this trust can be divided into two components, institutional and non-institutional, which are differentially related to beliefs about COVID-19 and perceptions of receiving misinformation and disinformation. Based on a survey conducted in three European countries (Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom), the study confirms that higher levels of institutional news trust (the trust dimension correlated more with trust in the news media, government, politicians, national and global health organizations, and scientists) are a good predictor of both better knowledge of COVID-19 myths and misstatements, and lower perceptions of being surrounded by false and misleading information about the virus...
December 23, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38095191/constructing-the-public-in-public-perceptions-research-a-case-study-of-forest-genomics
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valerie Berseth, Jennifer Taylor, Jenna Hutchen, Vivian Nguyen, Stephan Schott, Nicole Klenk
Contemporary scientific and technological endeavours face public and political pressure to adopt open, transparent and democratically accountable practices of public engagement. Prior research has identified different ways that experts 'imagine publics' - as uninformed, as disengaged, as a risk to science, and as co-producers of knowledge - but there has yet to be a systematic exploration of how these views emerge, interact and evolve. This article introduces a typology of imagined publics to analyse how publics are constructed in the field of forest genomics...
December 14, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38095167/1796-an-introduction-to-botany-the-critical-role-of-women-in-eighteenth-century-science-popularisation-and-the-early-promotion-of-science-for-young-girls-in-britain
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isabel Richards
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December 14, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37970636/dealing-with-dissent-from-the-medical-ranks-public-health-authorities-and-covid-19-communication
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Øyvind Ihlen, Anja Vranic
During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health authorities will typically be criticized for their efforts. When such criticism comes from the ranks of medical personnel, the challenge becomes more pronounced for the authorities, as it suggests a public negotiation of who has sufficient expertise to handle the pandemic. Hence, the authorities are faced with the challenge of defending their competence and advice, while at the same time adhering to a bureaucratic/scientific ethos that imposes communicative boundaries...
November 16, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37941348/narrativization-of-human-population-genetics-two-cases-in-iceland-and-russia
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vadim Chaly, Olga V Popova
Using the two cases of the Icelandic Health Sector Database and Russian initiatives in biobanking, the article criticizes the view of narratives and imaginaries as a sufficient and unproblematic means of shaping public understanding of genetics and justifying population-wide projects. Narrative representations of national biobanking engage particular imaginaries that are not bound by the universal normative framework of human rights, promote affective thinking, distract the public from recognizing and discussing tangible ethical and socioeconomic issues, and harm trust in science and technology...
November 8, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37937866/belief-updating-when-confronted-with-scientific-evidence-examining-the-role-of-trust-in-science
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tom Rosman, Sianna Grösser
In one exploratory study ( N  = 985) and one preregistered study ( N  = 1100), we investigated whether trust in science influences belief change on a medico-scientific issue when laypersons are confronted with scientific evidence. Moreover, we tested whether individuals with high trust in science trust science "blindly," meaning that their trust in a scientific claim's source prevents them from adequately evaluating the claim itself. Participants read eight fictitious studies on the efficacy of acupuncture, which were experimentally manipulated regarding direction (evidence favoring acupuncture vs diverging evidence) and quality (high vs low; only Study 2)...
November 8, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37916587/science-museum-educators-views-on-object-based-learning-the-perceived-importance-of-authenticity-and-touch
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tirsa de Kluis, Sanne Romp, Anne M Land-Zandstra
Museum educators play an important role in mediating visitors' museum experiences. We investigated the perspectives of science museum educators on the role of touching authentic objects and replicas in visitors' learning experiences during educational activities. We used a mixed-methods approach including surveys with 49 museum educators and interviews with 12 museum educators from several countries in Europe. Our findings indicate the importance of context when presenting museum visitors with objects. Participating museum educators based their choices for including authentic objects or replicas in educational activities more often on narrative and context than on the authenticity status of an object...
November 2, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37906516/neuroscience-explanations-really-do-satisfy-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-the-seductive-allure-of-neuroscience
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elizabeth M Bennett, Peter J McLaughlin
Extraneous neuroscience information improves ratings of scientific explanations, and affects mock juror decisions in many studies, but others have yielded little to no effect. To establish the magnitude of this effect, we conducted a random-effects meta-analysis using 60 experiments from 28 publications. We found a mild but highly significant effect, with substantial heterogeneity. Planned subgroup analyses revealed that within-subjects studies, where people can compare the same material with and without neuroscience, and those using text, have stronger effects than between-subjects designs, and studies using brain image stimuli...
October 31, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37882500/fuelling-the-climate-and-science-denial-machine-on-social-media-a-case-study-of-the-great-barrier-reef-s-2021-in-danger-recommendation-on-twitter-youtube-and-facebook
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carly Lubicz-Zaorski, Maxine Newlands, Theresa Petray
Australian climate policy has been stifled by a network of free-market and extractive industry-advocating actors, yet there is little empirical evidence to show how these actors and information flows behave in online communication spaces during Australian environmental conflicts. Focusing on the UNESCO 2021 'in danger' recommendation for the Great Barrier Reef for 6 weeks, this mixed-methods study of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube uses social network analysis, including cluster analysis and in-depth close reading...
October 26, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37865816/work-and-the-public-understanding-of-science
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert M Kunovich
This study examines whether engaging in science work and work that is substantively complex (e.g. requiring independent thought and judgment) is related to interest in science, science knowledge, and confidence in the scientific community in the United States. It also examines whether the conditions of work mediate the relationship between education and these science-related outcomes. Occupation-level data from O*NET are merged with survey data from the General Social Survey. Results indicate that science work is related to interest in science and science knowledge and that work complexity is related to confidence in the scientific community...
October 21, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37861108/dark-citizen-science
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Riley, Will Mason-Wilkes
Citizen science is often celebrated. We interrogate this position through exploration of socio-technoscientific phenomena that mirror citizen science yet are disaligned with its ideals. We term this 'Dark Citizen Science'. We identify five conceptual dimensions of citizen science - purpose, process, perceptibility, power and public effect . Dark citizen science mirrors traditional citizen science in purpose and process but diverges in perceptibility, power and public effect . We compare two Internet-based categorisation processes, Citizen Science project Galaxy Zoo and Dark Citizen Science project Google's reCAPTCHA...
October 20, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37658669/media-framings-of-the-role-of-genomics-in-addiction-in-the-united-states-from-2015-to-2019-individualized-risk-biomedical-expertise-and-the-limits-of-destigmatization
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine Hendy
News coverage of the opioid epidemic is a useful site for examining genomic framings of addiction. Qualitative analysis of 139 articles published in the United States from 2015 to 2019 discussing genomics, addiction, and the opioid epidemic found an emphasis on both a postgenomic framing in which genetics operates in relation to social and environmental factors, and a molecularized understanding of addiction which highlighted the role of neurobiology and individual-level genetic risk. Discussions of genetics were often intertwined with calls for a biomedicalized approach that frames addiction as a chronic disease in need of medication, and thus under the purview of medical experts...
September 2, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37655614/does-knowledge-make-a-difference-understanding-how-the-lay-public-and-experts-assess-the-credibility-of-information-on-novel-foods
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mengxue Ou, Shirley S Ho
Drawing on Metzger's dual-processing model of credibility assessment, this study examines how individuals with varying topical knowledge (laypersons vs experts) assess the credibility of information on novel foods. Online focus group discussions reveal that both groups share similar motivations for assessing the credibility of information on novel foods (e.g. personal relevance and concerns about the impact of unverified information on others). However, they differ in the barriers they encounter during the assessment of information credibility...
September 1, 2023: Public Understanding of Science
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