Lars Guenther
Biographic Data
| ID | 292108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Guenther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Guenther |
| SIGNATURE | GUENTHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6146-164X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Framing criminals in German regional newspapers: Does the perpetrator’s origin matter
The discrepancy between (regional) media coverage of criminal activity and official crime statistics, particularly concerning the portrayal of immigrant offenders, is widely acknowledged. The media’s framing of crime and the corresponding presentation of perpetrators with a migration background play a critical role in shaping public perceptions and reinforcing existing stereotypes. In response to this issue, the German Press Council revised Guide…
Unveiling the Backlash in Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study of Climate Change-Related Population Segments and Communicative Engagement in Germany
This study explores potential shifts in climate change-related perceptions and behavior over time and how this corresponds to changing communicative engagement with climate change. This is done through surveys conducted in Germany during UN climate summits in 2015 (n = 1477), 2018 (n = 1044), 2019 (n = 1000), 2021 (n= 1000) and 2023 (n = 1015). A latent profile analysis identifies five population segments regarding perceptions and behavioral enga…
Framing criminals in German regional newspapers: Does the perpetrator’s origin matter
Dynamics of trust in science among digitised publics: A two-wave panel study identifying trust groups
This project contains materials necessary to reproduce the analyses conducted for the article “Dynamics of trust in science among digitised publics: A two-wave panel study identifying trust groups ”, published in the Journal of Trust Research (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2025.2600301)
Mediating trust in content about science: Assessing trust cues in digital media environments
Intermediaries such as (digital) media use trust cues in their content, that is, information and linguistic markers that present public audiences reasons for trusting scientists, scientific organizations, and the science system. Trust cues refer to dimensions of trust in science such as expertise, integrity, benevolence, transparency, and dialogue. Because digital media environments are expected to be heterogeneous in content, the sources of trus…
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study
Publicly accessible large language models like ChatGPT are emerging as novel information intermediaries, enabling easy access to a wide range of science-related information. This study presents survey data from seven countries ( N = 4320) obtained in July and August 2023, focusing on the perception and use of GenAI for science-related information search. Despite the novelty of ChatGPT, a sizable proportion of respondents already reported using it…
Copy, paste, and publish: A systematic review of churnalism as a journalistic practice
Copy-pasting is harmless in many contexts, but in the field of journalism, it has transformed into a widely debated practice known as churnalism. Churnalism, or copy-and-paste journalism, refers to a journalistic practice in which journalists (heavily) rely on external third-party materials, leading to news stories that are (verbatim) reproductions of this material. Although the practice is accused of having become particularly widespread in digi…
My New Colleague, ChatGPT? How German Science Journalists Perceive and Use (Generative) Artificial Intelligence
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science 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 found that in most countries, most p…
Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries
The frequency and intensity of heat waves are increasing globally. In this context it is not clear how the related impacts differ between countries with different vulnerability and exposure characteristics, such as overall climatic conditions and implemented adaptation strategies, e.g. urban planning and planting trees to reduce heat island effect, air conditioning, communication with the public about danger of heat waves. The release of official…
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature
In line with the urgency of problems related to climate change, studies on the framing of this issue have flourished in recent years. However, as in framing research overall, a lack of definitions complicates the synthesis of theoretical/empirical insights. This systematic review contrasts trends of framing in climate change communication to those observed in reviews of communication research overall and harnesses framing’s power to bridge perspe…
Social Constructions of Climate Futures: Reframing Science’s Harmful Impact Frame Across News Media, Social Movements, and Local Communities
Climate research has established a cultural authority in modelling our future with climate change, and often uses a harmful impacts frame to communicate about climate change and climate futures. This paper investigates the social constructions of climate futures by analyzing how the harmful impacts frame resonates and is reframed in three social arenas – news media, climate movements, and local communities. Data for this study stems from a larger…
Collective Memory at Canada's Prison for Women
This essay proposes a critical phenomenology of the ontological, social, ethical, and political dimensions of collective memory. At an ontological level, the site of collective memory is not intentional consciousness but rather the lifeworld itself, understood as a historically sedimented context for meaning and mattering. The social dimension of collective memory is structured around an antagonism between hegemonic public memory and insurgent co…
Der globale Klimawandel wird „nicht in Duisburg entschieden“: Eine exemplarische Untersuchung von Frames von Lokaljournalist*innen und möglichen Kontextfaktoren
In der Klimakommunikation sind Frames im Lokaljournalismus ein relevanter und doch selten untersuchter Forschungsgegenstand. Solche Frames haben einen Einfluss auf den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, auf Problembewusstsein und Verhaltensweisen von Bürger*innen und auf lokale Klimapolitik. Hinter Frames in der lokalen Berichterstattung stehen die Framing-Praktiken von Lokaljournalist*innen, die anhand ihrer kognitiven Frames sowie individuellen und r…
Global climate change will “not be decided in Duisburg”: An exemplary investigation into local journalists’ frames and potential contextual factors
SCM Studies in Communication and Media , page 208 - 213
What Journalists Worry and Write About: Comparing Journalists’ Frames of Climate Futures with Respective News Frames
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach
We developed and validated the Public Trust in Science (PuTruS) Scale to recognize the multidimensional nature of the concept. Drawing on an epistemic understanding of trust in science as a perception, we integrate prior research on different levels of trust objects, emphasizing the importance of trust in scientists. In addition, we include transparency and dialogue orientation to reflect increased public engagement expectations. Data from two Ge…
Societal Attention to Heat Waves Can Indicate Public Health Impacts
Both the frequency and intensity of hot temperature extremes are expected to increase in the coming decades, challenging various socioeconomic sectors including public health. Therefore, societal attention data available in real time, such as Google search attention, could help monitor heat-wave impacts in domains with lagged data availability. Here, we jointly analyze societal attention and health impacts of heat waves in Germany at weekly time …
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses
Advances in analytical methodologies and an avalanche of digitized data have opened new avenues for (digital) journalism research—and with it, new challenges. One of these challenges concerns the sampling and evaluation of data using (non-validated) search terms in combination with automated content analyses. This challenge has largely been neglected by research, which is surprising, considering that noise slipping in during the process of data c…
Property, Dispossession, and State Violence: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance in Canada
In “Criminal Empire,” Ojibwe scholar Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark argues that the criminalization of Indigenous resistance to colonization “averts attention” from the criminality of democratic settler states, which fail or refuse to honor their own legal agreements with Indigenous peoples. This chapter reflects on the implications of Stark’s analysis for the relation between property, dispossession, and liberal democratic state violence. From th…
Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter
The threats posed to society by climate change often fail to become priorities for voters and policymakers. Nevertheless, it has been shown that merely paying online attention to climate change can increase the perceived severity of the associated risks and thus encourage climate action. Therefore, we focus on public discourse on Twitter to explore the interplay of “triggers” and discursive features that stimulate attention to climate change. We …
A Distant Threat? The Framing of Climate Futures Across Four Countries
Future scenarios of a changing climate are not only an integral part of climate research, but they are also part of media coverage on climate change. Such reporting affects how people imagine the future to be, as well as their current and intended behaviors. Hence, this article made use of a quantitative, manual content analysis with qualitative and automated approaches for sample construction, to analyze the framing of climate futures in journal…
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content
Scientists increasingly use Twitter for communication about science. The microblogging service has been heralded for its potential to foster public engagement with science; thus, measuring how engaging, that is dialogue-oriented, tweet content is, has become a relevant research object. Tweet content designed in an engaging, dialogue-oriented way is also supposed to link to user interaction (e.g. liking, retweeting). The present study analyzed con…
Felons, Right-Wing Extremists, Foreign Criminals, and Islamist Terrorists: Frames of Criminals in German Television News
The discrepancy between official crime statistics and media coverage of crime is well known. This is particularly the case for criminals with a migrant background. Their disproportionate and stereotypical representation in crime news can reinforce prejudices among audiences. For this reason, the German Press Code was amended in 2017 to stipulate that the origin of criminals shall not be mentioned in crime news. Using quantitative content analysis…
Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Pelican Bay State Prison is an exceptional space and a paradigmatic example of the logic of punishment in the United States today. Situated in a clear-cut in the redwood forests of northern California, the prison contains over one thousand windowless cells for the isolation of prisoners labeled “the worst of the worst.” Until recently, many of these prisoners were isolated indefinitely as a result of a Kafka-esque policy that marked people as gan…
Resisting Agamben: The biopolitics of shame and humiliation
In Remnants of Auschwitz, Giorgio Agamben argues that the hidden structure of subjectivity is shame. In shame, I am consigned to something that cannot be assumed, such that the very thing that makes me a subject also forces me to witness my own desubjectification. Agamben's ontological account of shame is problematic insofar as it forecloses collective responsibility and collapses the distinction between shame and humiliation. By recontextualizin…
The Question of Newsworthiness: A Cross-Comparison Among Science Journalists’ Selection Criteria in Argentina, France, and Germany
Although science journalists’ selection criteria have been investigated, there have not been systematic attempts yet to study how this varies across countries. Using gatekeeping theory, we analyzed and compared how three groups of journalists in Argentina, France, and Germany selected their news, and explored some motivations behind their decisions. Personal interests as well as a set of common news factors and sources are important for all journ…
From Global Doom to Sustainable Solutions: International News Magazines’ Multimodal Framing of our Future with Climate Change
Modeling future pathways is essential for climate research, and such climate futures are also an integral part of media coverage on climate change. However, research on media’s framing of climate change has only sparsely investigated future visions, although media effect studies assume that characteristics of climate futures, including their visual representation, can motivate people to act. Hence, in this study, we analyzed the multimodal media …
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science 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 found that in most countries, most p…
Scientific Evidence and Science Journalism: Analysing the representation of (un)certainty in German print and online media
Science journalism in print and online media is an important source of information for laypersons. While science journalists established their own professional routines and standards, different actors (and scientists in particular) often criticise science journalism for not being transparent and accurate enough. One critical point raised concerns journalists’ representation of scientific evidence. Against this background, the current study invest…
Eyes on the frame: Explaining people’s online searching behavior in response to TV consumption
Purpose Using the internet parallel to or after television (TV) consumption changes the way people receive news. The way information is framed by the media has been found to influence the behavior of news recipients. The purpose of this paper is to hypothesize that the exposure to TV media frames would affect a lay audience’s online information-seeking behavior. Design/methodology/approach In an experiment combining eye tracking and content analy…
Von kriminell bis willkommen. Wie die Herkunft über das mediale Framing von Einwanderern entscheidet
Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob Einwanderer in der Berichterstattung je nach Herkunft unterschiedlich dargestellt werden. Dazu wurden Artikel der Tageszeitungen Welt, FAZ, SZ und taz aus dem Jahr 2014 inhaltsanalytisch untersucht. Mittels hierarchischer Clusteranalyse auf Akteursebene (n = 596) lassen sich fünf Frames von Einwanderern ermitteln: Kriminelle, Nützliche, Kostenintensive, Integrationswillige und Willkommene. Einige dieser Frames …
Subjects Without a World? An Husserlian Analysis of Solitary Confinement
Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada’s Prison for Women
A group of women who were incarcerated at Canada’s first federal Prison for Women (P4W) have been fighting to create a memorial garden since the prison closed in 2000. In 2017, the prison was sold to a private developer who plans to convert the historic building and grounds into condos, retail, and office space. What does it mean to remember the dead, and to fight for the living, at a time when neoliberal common sense demands the efficient conver…
Strategic Framing and Social Media Engagement: Analyzing Memes Posted by the German Identitarian Movement on Facebook
While officially classified as a right-wing movement, the German Identitarian Movement (GIM) claims to be neither left nor right wing but rather identitarian. The social movement stands for what they call 'ethno-pluralism,' communicated online without intermediate gatekeepers, in supposedly socially acceptable messages. Without a clear classification to a political wing, some Internet users encountering information created by the GIM could have d…
Like a Maternal Body”: Emmanuel Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses
Emmanuel Levinas compares ethical responsibility to a maternal body who bears the Other in the same without assimilation. In explicating this trope, he refers to a biblical passage in which Moses is like a “wet nurse” bearing Others whom he has “neither conceived nor given birth to” (Num. 11:12). A close reading of this passage raises questions about ethics, maternity, and sexual difference, for both the concept of ethical substitution and the ma…
The Public Trust in Science Scale: A Multilevel and Multidimensional Approach
We developed and validated the Public Trust in Science (PuTruS) Scale to recognize the multidimensional nature of the concept. Drawing on an epistemic understanding of trust in science as a perception, we integrate prior research on different levels of trust objects, emphasizing the importance of trust in scientists. In addition, we include transparency and dialogue orientation to reflect increased public engagement expectations. Data from two Ge…
Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Sexual Difference
While Merleau-Ponty does not theorize sexual difference at any great length, his concepts of the flesh and the institution of a sense suggest hitherto undeveloped possibilities for articulating sexual difference beyond the male–female binary. For Merleau-Ponty, flesh is a “pregnancy of possibilities” which gives rise to masculine and feminine forms through a process of mutual divergence and encroachment. Both sexes bear “the possible of the other…
Other Fecundities: Proust and Irigaray on Sexual Difference
Irigaray's early work seeks to multiply possibilities for women's self-expression by recovering a sexual difference in which male and female are neither the same nor opposites, but irreducibly different modes of embodiment. In her more recent work, however, Irigaray has emphasized the duality of the sexes at the expense of multiplicity, enshrining the heterosexual couple as the model of sexual ethics. Alison Stone's recent revision of Irigaray su…
Being-from-others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero
Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while handing down a heritage of possibilities that one can—and must—make one's own. Guenther calls this structure of natality Being-from-others, modifying Heidegger's language of inheritance to suggest an ethical un…
Like a Maternal Body: Emmanuel Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses
My New Colleague, ChatGPT? How German Science Journalists Perceive and Use (Generative) Artificial Intelligence
Global climate change will “not be decided in Duisburg”: An exemplary investigation into local journalists’ frames and potential contextual factors
SCM Studies in Communication and Media , page 208 - 213
AbolishCanada: Breaking Down the 2022 Freedom Convoy
The 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada, raises questions about the meaning and tactics of decolonial abolition. To call for the police of a colonial state to crack down on unruly settlers on stolen Indigenous land is both hypocritical and ineffective. And yet, it isn't clear how to organize effective grassroots resistance against a well-funded group of possibly armed right-wing protesters in trucks. This essay situates the Freedom Convoy in th…
Facts, Opinions, and Scientific Memes: Reflections of and Recommendations for the March for Science in Germany
Germany ranked second in number of March for Science participants. The current essay is based on a focus group discussion with six participants of a march in a German university town and elucidates their motives for attending, their perceptions of how politically active scientists should be, the goals they think the march should aim to achieve, and their recommendations for future marches. Motives in Germany differed slightly from those mentioned…
On- oder Off-Sprecher
Fr Rezipienten ist die Glaubwrdigkeit von Quellen fr die Einschtzung medial vermittelter wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse besonders wichtig. Neben sichtbaren Akteuren ist der Off-Sprecher eine der typischen Informationsquellen in TV-Wissenschaftsmagazinen. Er stellt ebenfalls argumentativ Evidenz fr wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse bereit. Vom Journalisten knnen die Argumentationen der Quellen sowohl einseitig als auch kontrovers dargestellt werden.…
Like a Maternal Body”: Emmanuel Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses
Emmanuel Levinas compares ethical responsibility to a maternal body who bears the Other in the same without assimilation. In explicating this trope, he refers to a biblical passage in which Moses is like a “wet nurse” bearing Others whom he has “neither conceived nor given birth to” (Num. 11:12). A close reading of this passage raises questions about ethics, maternity, and sexual difference, for both the concept of ethical substitution and the ma…
Like a Maternal Body: Emmanuel Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses
Being-from-others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero
Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while handing down a heritage of possibilities that one can—and must—make one's own. Guenther calls this structure of natality Being-from-others, modifying Heidegger's language of inheritance to suggest an ethical un…
Being-from-others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero
Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while handing down a heritage of possibilities that one can—and must—make one's own. Guenther calls this structure of natality Being-from-others, modifying Heidegger's language of inheritance to suggest an ethical un…
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives
This book offers a critical phenomenology of solitary confinement in US prisons from the early penitentiary system to present-day supermax prisons. Drawing on first-person testimony, phenomenological analysis, and critical social theory, I argue that forced isolation is a form of violence against the relational structure of living being. Many prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement describe their experience as a form of living death. They exp…
Other Fecundities: Proust and Irigaray on Sexual Difference
Irigaray's early work seeks to multiply possibilities for women's self-expression by recovering a sexual difference in which male and female are neither the same nor opposites, but irreducibly different modes of embodiment. In her more recent work, however, Irigaray has emphasized the duality of the sexes at the expense of multiplicity, enshrining the heterosexual couple as the model of sexual ethics. Alison Stone's recent revision of Irigaray su…
Shame and the temporality of social life
Subjects Without a World? An Husserlian Analysis of Solitary Confinement
Resisting Agamben: The biopolitics of shame and humiliation
In Remnants of Auschwitz, Giorgio Agamben argues that the hidden structure of subjectivity is shame. In shame, I am consigned to something that cannot be assumed, such that the very thing that makes me a subject also forces me to witness my own desubjectification. Agamben's ontological account of shame is problematic insofar as it forecloses collective responsibility and collapses the distinction between shame and humiliation. By recontextualizin…
Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Sexual Difference
While Merleau-Ponty does not theorize sexual difference at any great length, his concepts of the flesh and the institution of a sense suggest hitherto undeveloped possibilities for articulating sexual difference beyond the male–female binary. For Merleau-Ponty, flesh is a “pregnancy of possibilities” which gives rise to masculine and feminine forms through a process of mutual divergence and encroachment. Both sexes bear “the possible of the other…
The Most Dangerous Place: Pro-Life Politics and the Rhetoric of Slavery
In recent years, comparisons between abortion and slavery have become increasingly common in American pro-life politics. Some have compared the struggle to extinguish abortion rights to the struggle to end slavery. Others have claimed that Roe v Wade is the Dred Scott of our time. Still others have argued that abortion is worse than slavery; it is a form of genocide. This paper tracks the abortion = slavery meme from Ronald Reagan to the current …
Frames of scientific evidence: How journalists represent the (un)certainty of molecular medicine in science television programs
For laypeople, media coverage of science on television is a gateway to scientific issues. Defining scientific evidence is central to the field of science, but there are still questions if news coverage of science represents scientific research findings as certain or uncertain. The framing approach is a suitable framework to classify different media representations; it is applied here to investigate the frames of scientific evidence in film clips …
On- oder Off-Sprecher
Fr Rezipienten ist die Glaubwrdigkeit von Quellen fr die Einschtzung medial vermittelter wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse besonders wichtig. Neben sichtbaren Akteuren ist der Off-Sprecher eine der typischen Informationsquellen in TV-Wissenschaftsmagazinen. Er stellt ebenfalls argumentativ Evidenz fr wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse bereit. Vom Journalisten knnen die Argumentationen der Quellen sowohl einseitig als auch kontrovers dargestellt werden.…
Science communication and the issue of trust
Science communication, whether internally or to the general public depends on trust, both trust in the source and trust in the medium of communication. With the new 'ecology of communication' this trust is endangered. On the one hand the very term of science communication has been captured by many different actors (e.g., governments, PR experts, universities and research institutions, science journalists, and bloggers) apart from scientists thems…
Evidenz und Medien: Journalistische Wahrnehmung und Darstellung wissenschaftlicher Ungesichertheit
Scientific evidence and mass media: Investigating the journalistic intention to represent scientific uncertainty
Science journalists are responsible for the mass media’s representation of life sciences (e.g. biotechnology, genetics, and nanotechnology) and for the depiction of research findings in these areas as more scientifically (un)certain. Although researchers have determined that the representational styles of scientific evidence vary among science journalists, the reasons for these differences have not yet been fully investigated. Against this backgr…
The Question of Newsworthiness: A Cross-Comparison Among Science Journalists’ Selection Criteria in Argentina, France, and Germany
Although science journalists’ selection criteria have been investigated, there have not been systematic attempts yet to study how this varies across countries. Using gatekeeping theory, we analyzed and compared how three groups of journalists in Argentina, France, and Germany selected their news, and explored some motivations behind their decisions. Personal interests as well as a set of common news factors and sources are important for all journ…
Von kriminell bis willkommen. Wie die Herkunft über das mediale Framing von Einwanderern entscheidet
Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob Einwanderer in der Berichterstattung je nach Herkunft unterschiedlich dargestellt werden. Dazu wurden Artikel der Tageszeitungen Welt, FAZ, SZ und taz aus dem Jahr 2014 inhaltsanalytisch untersucht. Mittels hierarchischer Clusteranalyse auf Akteursebene (n = 596) lassen sich fünf Frames von Einwanderern ermitteln: Kriminelle, Nützliche, Kostenintensive, Integrationswillige und Willkommene. Einige dieser Frames …
Evidenz und Medien
Scientific Evidence and Science Journalism: Analysing the representation of (un)certainty in German print and online media
Science journalism in print and online media is an important source of information for laypersons. While science journalists established their own professional routines and standards, different actors (and scientists in particular) often criticise science journalism for not being transparent and accurate enough. One critical point raised concerns journalists’ representation of scientific evidence. Against this background, the current study invest…
Eyes on the frame: Explaining people’s online searching behavior in response to TV consumption
Purpose Using the internet parallel to or after television (TV) consumption changes the way people receive news. The way information is framed by the media has been found to influence the behavior of news recipients. The purpose of this paper is to hypothesize that the exposure to TV media frames would affect a lay audience’s online information-seeking behavior. Design/methodology/approach In an experiment combining eye tracking and content analy…
On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty
On 16 January 2014, Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire was put to death with an untested mixture of lethal injection drugs. According to witnesses, McGuire gasped, snorted and appeared to struggle for air for ten minutes before dying. The entire execution lasted up to twenty-six minutes – the longest since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. McGuire’s family is suing the state and the drug manufacturer Hospira for what they claim was ‘unnecessary and extr…
“Science is Everywhere, but No One Knows It”: Assessing the Cultural Distance to Science of Rural South African Publics
In science communication, a prerequisite for reaching different parts of a society is to find out how these publics experience and interpret science. Since rural South African publics are perceived to exhibit a large cultural distance to science, the present exploratory study aimed to know in more detail how rural South Africans perceive and understand science in their local and social contexts. Theoretical notions on cultural distance and the me…
Promises and reservations towards science and technology among South African publics: A culture-sensitive approach
Against the background that surveys measuring public perceptions of science and technology are often removed from cultural contexts and do not equally represent all regions of the world, this study investigated attitudes towards science and technology among different publics of the South African population. To apply a culture-sensitive approach, theoretical considerations of cultural distance were combined with methodological considerations of se…
Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Pelican Bay State Prison is an exceptional space and a paradigmatic example of the logic of punishment in the United States today. Situated in a clear-cut in the redwood forests of northern California, the prison contains over one thousand windowless cells for the isolation of prisoners labeled “the worst of the worst.” Until recently, many of these prisoners were isolated indefinitely as a result of a Kafka-esque policy that marked people as gan…
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