Simone Rödder
Biographic Data
| ID | 349665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Rödder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Rödder |
| SIGNATURE | RÖDDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4013-6183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theorizing reputation: The case of science as a social world
Reputation occupies a central position in the arts, the economy, science and various other social worlds. Although sociologists have examined facets of reputation, the existing literature remains fragmented. In this article, we suggest an integrative view of what reputation does, rather than what it is. Taking stock of theoretical engagements with reputation, we propose a social worlds perspective to examine and theorize reputation as a means of …
Science communication as a wicked problem: Revisiting the paradigms of deficits
This article explores the persistent troubles in the relation of science and its publics through a sociological lens. It conceptualises science communication as a wicked problem, a systemic challenge involving boundary negotiations across differentiated social worlds. We then examine how actors themselves interpret this wicked situation. We find that multiple paradigms of deficits, that is, master discourses of narrating this wickedness as crises…
The dramaturgical infrastructure of counter-summitry – ethnographic insights from the Glasgow climate conference
Repräsentative Organisationen: Stellvertretungsansprüche am Beispiel wissenschaftlicher Expertise
Der Beitrag schließt an zwei aktuelle Diskussionen an. Zum einen nehmen wir das Repräsentationsproblem in der Wissenschaft in den Blick, das zuletzt in der Debatte um die Prävalenz des Kollektivbegriffs ‚die Wissenschaft‘ Aufmerksamkeit erfahren hat. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie unter den Bedingungen des Wissenschaftssystems Repräsentationsansprüche organisierter Expertise stabilisiert werden. Zum anderen greifen wir die Diskussion um das Verh…
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…
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…
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective
Traveling to conferences is a central feature of academic life. Yet recently, academic air travel has been called into question in the context of climate change, and the digital transformation has facilitated the spread of virtual alternatives to face‐to‐face meetings. The near‐total halt in air travel associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic has solidified the use of technologies of virtual meetings. However, the return to in‐person conferences aft…
Between evidence first and political fight - understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements' future narratives
Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement are among the new climate movements that have come into the public spotlight since 2019. While their successes in agenda-setting are undisputed, conclusions vary on whether and how this re-politicizes climate discourses. This article presents a new framework to analyze the dynamics of (de-)politicization along the dimensions of vision, agency and process. Based on a narrative analysis,…
The role of scientific knowledge in Extinction Rebellion's communication of climate futures
Introduction Extinction Rebellion (XR) is one of the central players in climate movements in the United Kingdom. Considering the historical relationship that environmentalists have had with science and scientific knowledge, we examine the current treatment of science in the narrative put forward by XR United Kingdom. Methods Using mixed qualitative methods, the group's online press releases for the year 2019 were analysed, alongside fieldwork fro…
World organisations, world events and world objects: How science, politics, and the mass media co-produce climate futures
Societies are becoming increasingly aware that they owe their emergence, wealth and industrialisation to their influence as a geophysical force. Social and environmental scientists have analysed the genesis of this self-reflection and pointed to past failures that have led to this predicament. Following the gradually beginning research on differing temporalities, temporal practices and time regimes in the climate change discourse, this article sh…
Más allá de las expectativas de rol: 'Devenires' en la investigación interdisciplinaria sobre el cambio global, el clima y el ambiente
Este artículo busca contribuir a las discusiones cada vez más frecuentes sobre las transformaciones intelectuales, personales y emocionales que experimentan con cada nuevo proyecto de investigación y colaboración quienes realizan trabajo de campo etnográfico en el marco de los Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESCyT). A partir de la experiencia de investigar 'insertas' (embedded) en grandes proyectos colaborativos de las ciencias d…
Schlüsselwerke der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung
Disziplinarität
Organisation matters: Towards an organisational sociology of science communication
Purpose This paper looks at science communication through an organisational lens with the aim of assessing the relevance of different organisational forms for science communication. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores science communication in different organisational forms. Based on conceptual considerations and by reviewing existing empirical literature, the paper selects and compares three organisational forms of science communicatio…
Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenlan…
Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating
Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased. Yet, they still represent a small percentage of contributions overall. Reviewing the 37 articles published in eight top-ranked sociology journals until 2018, the authors of the present article identify five main subfields of research: (a) reflections on the role of t…
Riding alone on the elevator
The ability to conduct interdisciplinary research is crucial to address complex real-world problems that require the collaboration of different scientific fields, with global warming being a case in point. To produce integrated climate-related knowledge, climate researchers should be trained early on to work across boundaries and gain an understanding of diverse disciplinary perspectives. This article argues for social breaching as a methodology …
Riding alone on the elevator: A class experiment in interdisciplinary education
A bstract The ability to conduct interdisciplinary research is crucial to address complex real-world problems that require the collaboration of different scientific fields, with global warming being a case in point. To produce integrated climate-related knowledge, climate researchers should be trained early on to work across boundaries and gain an understanding of diverse disciplinary perspectives. This article argues for social breaching as a me…
The Climate of Science-Art and the Art-Science of the Climate: Meeting Points, Boundary Objects and Boundary Work
Sciences' Media Connection -Public Communication and Its Repercussions
The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions
Science and the Mass Media –‘Medialization’ as a New Perspective on an Intricate Relationship
This survey article discusses a recently proposed perspective on the science–media interface the concept of medialization. The medialization approach assumes that there is mutual resonance between science and the mass media. Medialization research systematically investigates structural transformation in science: What are the implications of high media attention for science funding, for research agendas, for universities and the professional self‐…
Reassessing the concept of a medialization of science: A story from the “book of life”
The changing relationship between science and the mass media has been characterized in theory as a medialization of science. This paper argues that the concept of medialization should be further focused by differentiating two dimensions, an increasing media attention for scientific issues on the one hand and an increasing orientation of science towards the media on the other hand. This allows for observing changes with regard to science and the m…
Wahrhaft sichtbar
Wissenschaftler sehen sich zunehmend mit der Erwartung konfrontiert, außerhalb der Wissenschaft sichtbar zu sein. Am Fall der Humangenomforschung, deren Sequenzen und Stars in den vergangenen Jahren hohe Medienaufmerksamkeit zuteil wurde, zeigt die Studie, wie diese Sichtbarkeit Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler verändert. Anhand von Interviews mit 55 Humangenomforschern in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA zeichnet die Autorin d…
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…
Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating
Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased. Yet, they still represent a small percentage of contributions overall. Reviewing the 37 articles published in eight top-ranked sociology journals until 2018, the authors of the present article identify five main subfields of research: (a) reflections on the role of t…
The Climate of Science-Art and the Art-Science of the Climate: Meeting Points, Boundary Objects and Boundary Work
Between evidence first and political fight - understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements' future narratives
Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement are among the new climate movements that have come into the public spotlight since 2019. While their successes in agenda-setting are undisputed, conclusions vary on whether and how this re-politicizes climate discourses. This article presents a new framework to analyze the dynamics of (de-)politicization along the dimensions of vision, agency and process. Based on a narrative analysis,…
Science and the Mass Media –‘Medialization’ as a New Perspective on an Intricate Relationship
This survey article discusses a recently proposed perspective on the science–media interface the concept of medialization. The medialization approach assumes that there is mutual resonance between science and the mass media. Medialization research systematically investigates structural transformation in science: What are the implications of high media attention for science funding, for research agendas, for universities and the professional self‐…
World organisations, world events and world objects: How science, politics, and the mass media co-produce climate futures
Societies are becoming increasingly aware that they owe their emergence, wealth and industrialisation to their influence as a geophysical force. Social and environmental scientists have analysed the genesis of this self-reflection and pointed to past failures that have led to this predicament. Following the gradually beginning research on differing temporalities, temporal practices and time regimes in the climate change discourse, this article sh…
Reassessing the concept of a medialization of science: A story from the “book of life”
The changing relationship between science and the mass media has been characterized in theory as a medialization of science. This paper argues that the concept of medialization should be further focused by differentiating two dimensions, an increasing media attention for scientific issues on the one hand and an increasing orientation of science towards the media on the other hand. This allows for observing changes with regard to science and the m…
Wahrhaft sichtbar
Wissenschaftler sehen sich zunehmend mit der Erwartung konfrontiert, außerhalb der Wissenschaft sichtbar zu sein. Am Fall der Humangenomforschung, deren Sequenzen und Stars in den vergangenen Jahren hohe Medienaufmerksamkeit zuteil wurde, zeigt die Studie, wie diese Sichtbarkeit Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler verändert. Anhand von Interviews mit 55 Humangenomforschern in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA zeichnet die Autorin d…
Science and the Mass Media –‘Medialization’ as a New Perspective on an Intricate Relationship
This survey article discusses a recently proposed perspective on the science–media interface the concept of medialization. The medialization approach assumes that there is mutual resonance between science and the mass media. Medialization research systematically investigates structural transformation in science: What are the implications of high media attention for science funding, for research agendas, for universities and the professional self‐…
Sciences' Media Connection -Public Communication and Its Repercussions
The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions
The Climate of Science-Art and the Art-Science of the Climate: Meeting Points, Boundary Objects and Boundary Work
Riding alone on the elevator
The ability to conduct interdisciplinary research is crucial to address complex real-world problems that require the collaboration of different scientific fields, with global warming being a case in point. To produce integrated climate-related knowledge, climate researchers should be trained early on to work across boundaries and gain an understanding of diverse disciplinary perspectives. This article argues for social breaching as a methodology …
Riding alone on the elevator: A class experiment in interdisciplinary education
A bstract The ability to conduct interdisciplinary research is crucial to address complex real-world problems that require the collaboration of different scientific fields, with global warming being a case in point. To produce integrated climate-related knowledge, climate researchers should be trained early on to work across boundaries and gain an understanding of diverse disciplinary perspectives. This article argues for social breaching as a me…
Organisation matters: Towards an organisational sociology of science communication
Purpose This paper looks at science communication through an organisational lens with the aim of assessing the relevance of different organisational forms for science communication. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores science communication in different organisational forms. Based on conceptual considerations and by reviewing existing empirical literature, the paper selects and compares three organisational forms of science communicatio…
Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenlan…
Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating
Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased. Yet, they still represent a small percentage of contributions overall. Reviewing the 37 articles published in eight top-ranked sociology journals until 2018, the authors of the present article identify five main subfields of research: (a) reflections on the role of t…
Disziplinarität
Más allá de las expectativas de rol: 'Devenires' en la investigación interdisciplinaria sobre el cambio global, el clima y el ambiente
Este artículo busca contribuir a las discusiones cada vez más frecuentes sobre las transformaciones intelectuales, personales y emocionales que experimentan con cada nuevo proyecto de investigación y colaboración quienes realizan trabajo de campo etnográfico en el marco de los Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESCyT). A partir de la experiencia de investigar 'insertas' (embedded) en grandes proyectos colaborativos de las ciencias d…
Schlüsselwerke der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung
The role of scientific knowledge in Extinction Rebellion's communication of climate futures
Introduction Extinction Rebellion (XR) is one of the central players in climate movements in the United Kingdom. Considering the historical relationship that environmentalists have had with science and scientific knowledge, we examine the current treatment of science in the narrative put forward by XR United Kingdom. Methods Using mixed qualitative methods, the group's online press releases for the year 2019 were analysed, alongside fieldwork fro…
World organisations, world events and world objects: How science, politics, and the mass media co-produce climate futures
Societies are becoming increasingly aware that they owe their emergence, wealth and industrialisation to their influence as a geophysical force. Social and environmental scientists have analysed the genesis of this self-reflection and pointed to past failures that have led to this predicament. Following the gradually beginning research on differing temporalities, temporal practices and time regimes in the climate change discourse, this article sh…
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…
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective
Traveling to conferences is a central feature of academic life. Yet recently, academic air travel has been called into question in the context of climate change, and the digital transformation has facilitated the spread of virtual alternatives to face‐to‐face meetings. The near‐total halt in air travel associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic has solidified the use of technologies of virtual meetings. However, the return to in‐person conferences aft…
Between evidence first and political fight - understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements' future narratives
Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement are among the new climate movements that have come into the public spotlight since 2019. While their successes in agenda-setting are undisputed, conclusions vary on whether and how this re-politicizes climate discourses. This article presents a new framework to analyze the dynamics of (de-)politicization along the dimensions of vision, agency and process. Based on a narrative analysis,…
Repräsentative Organisationen: Stellvertretungsansprüche am Beispiel wissenschaftlicher Expertise
Der Beitrag schließt an zwei aktuelle Diskussionen an. Zum einen nehmen wir das Repräsentationsproblem in der Wissenschaft in den Blick, das zuletzt in der Debatte um die Prävalenz des Kollektivbegriffs ‚die Wissenschaft‘ Aufmerksamkeit erfahren hat. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie unter den Bedingungen des Wissenschaftssystems Repräsentationsansprüche organisierter Expertise stabilisiert werden. Zum anderen greifen wir die Diskussion um das Verh…
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…
Theorizing reputation: The case of science as a social world
Reputation occupies a central position in the arts, the economy, science and various other social worlds. Although sociologists have examined facets of reputation, the existing literature remains fragmented. In this article, we suggest an integrative view of what reputation does, rather than what it is. Taking stock of theoretical engagements with reputation, we propose a social worlds perspective to examine and theorize reputation as a means of …
Science communication as a wicked problem: Revisiting the paradigms of deficits
This article explores the persistent troubles in the relation of science and its publics through a sociological lens. It conceptualises science communication as a wicked problem, a systemic challenge involving boundary negotiations across differentiated social worlds. We then examine how actors themselves interpret this wicked situation. We find that multiple paradigms of deficits, that is, master discourses of narrating this wickedness as crises…
The dramaturgical infrastructure of counter-summitry – ethnographic insights from the Glasgow climate conference
Climate Change Communication and Perception (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Politics (5 works)