Michelle Riedlinger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2817702 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michelle Riedlinger |
| PRENOMES | Michelle |
| SOBRENOME | Riedlinger |
| ASSINATURA | RIEDLINGER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4402-4824 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
How Uncertainty Is Talked About in Language Discordant and Concordant Health Consultations
Integrity under pressure
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly present in academic writing workflows, and their irresponsible use poses a growing threat to the integrity of scholarly publishing. In this editorial, we highlight the emergence of AI-generated references, or so-called “ghost references”, as a specific concern for JCOM and the wider academic community. We consider how AI tools like large language models can produce convincing yet fict…
"Just Asking Questions"
Interactive chat systems that build on generative artificial intelligence frameworks - such as ChatGPT or Copilot - are increasingly embedded into search engines, Web browsers, operating systems, or available as standalone sites and apps. In a communication ecosystem where information disorder is a persistent threat (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017), there is the potential for users to utilise chat systems to seek information about conspiracy theories …
Ethics, generative AI and science communication
In this essay, we argue that the applications of generative-AI technologies to science communication need careful consideration to ensure such uses are desirable, and socially and ethically acceptable. In early applications of GenAI in science communication, especially in public media, there has been swift and overwhelmingly negative response to news about its use. Drawing on existing literature about generative-AI in adjacent fields to science c…
Shining Light on “Dark Science”
The journalistic watchdog role has traditionally been theorised as a mechanism for scrutinising political power. Yet comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to watchdog practices that target science itself, despite growing concerns about research misconduct, misinformation, and the misuse of scientific authority in digital media environments. This study addresses this gap by conceptualising and mapping the emerging ecosystem of sci…
Expecting Humans, Encountering Machines
Drawing on Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT), we conducted 60 semi-structured interviews to examine (1) how news audiences in Australia and Germany form expectations about journalists’ use of generative AI (GenAI); (2) the antecedents shaping those expectations; and (3) how they evaluate perceived expectation violations. Participants envisioned journalism as a human-centered practice, rejecting autonomous GenAI use in core reporting functions. T…
News audiences’ acceptance of generative artificial intelligence in journalism
News audiences’ acceptance of generative AI (GenAI) in journalism is shaped by their knowledge of (or direct experience with) what AI is, what it can do, and what implications its use has. Acknowledging this, the present study draws on the technology acceptance model to first explore what a sample of news audiences in two countries knows about GenAI and what their experiences, if any, with it have been to date. Next, it explores this sample's acc…
“Just Asking Questions”
Interactive chat systems that build on artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks are increasingly ubiquitous and embedded into search engines, Web browsers, and operating systems, or as standalone websites and apps. Researcher efforts have sought to understand the limitations and potential for harm of chatbots powered by generative AI, which we contribute to here. Conducting a systematic review of seven AI-powered chat systems (ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo; C…
Negotiating hospitable space with regulation in communication
Signage is a popular communication medium used to regulate and govern people in public spaces. The Queensland Government mandates the display of Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) signage in licensed venues as an intervention into alcohol-related harms. As intermediaries in policy communication, venue licensees have a degree of control over how they engage with this signage. This research examines RSA signs ‘in place’ across a variety of venues…
Research Genai
This paper charts the emergence of a distinct category of research-dedicated GenAI platforms, which we term Research GenAI or RGAI. These platforms are explicitly marketed to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying/summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. RGAI platforms (e.g., Consensus, Elicit, R…
Analysing News Polarisation
Political polarisation – at the level of individual issues or broader ideologies, and expressed through differences of opinion on policies, divergent affective attachments, contrary interpretations of available information, or distinct patterns of interaction with other partisans – is necessarily always closely related to the information that individuals and groups engage with as they form and reinforce their own opinions about a given issue or t…
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search
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…
Multimodal narratives of climate denial
climate denial discourse is represented on social media multimodally. • dominant visual signatures are isolated using an unsupervised machine learning technique. • the chemtrails conspiracy theory describes the most prevalent visual signature. • chemtrails conspiracy and climate denial discourses intertwine with other conspiratorial discourses through visuals, hashtags, and text. Problematic information about climate change in online spaces can i…
Amplifying the News
Division, not reconciliation
Concerns about rising social and political polarisation are widespread, with blame often attributed to partisan or biased news coverage despite limited empirical evidence. Previous studies have focussed on audiences, either their political leanings or polarised responses to news, offering limited insight into patterns of viewpoint diversity within news content. This study introduces an approach to measuring news media polarisation beyond the left…
Second-order citations in altmetrics
The potential to capture the societal impact of research has been a driving motivation for the use and development of altmetrics. Yet, to date, altmetrics have largely failed to deliver on this potential because the primary audience that cites research on social media has been shown to be academics themselves. In response, our study investigates an extension of traditional altmetric approaches that goes beyond capturing direct mentions of researc…
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe
This study investigates the methods and practices used by self-identified fact-checkers situated on the fringe of the field of fact-checking to support their agenda for public recognition and legitimacy. Using a case study approach and selecting nine cases across five countries (Russia, Brazil, India, China, and Singapore), we identify the most common distinguishable attributes and tactics associated with this ambiguous collection of actors. In a…
Fact-Checking Role Performances and Problematic Covid-19 Vaccine Content in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
The move from political fact-checking to a “public health” or debunking model of fact-checking, sustained by policies and funding from platforms, highlights important tensions in the case of Covid-19. Building on findings from studies focused on journalistic role performance, we investigated how professional fact-checkers in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa conceived of and performed their professional roles when addressing Covid-19 vaccinati…
Academic explanatory journalism and emerging Covid-19 science
This article examines the public communication of COVID-19-related ‘preprints’ (unreviewed research studies) in a digital media environment. To understand how preprint research flows from preprint server, to media story, to social media audience, we analysed engagement with ‘second-order citations’ – social media posts linking to media coverage of research – using a sample of 41 media stories published by the research amplifier platform The Conve…
The Ladder of Power
On March 28, 2022, the Journal of Science Communication published a special issue on participatory science communication featuring 15 papers and essays. The Journal of Science Communication special issue sparked a debate among the four editors over the wording of the call for papers. What is the difference between “participatory science communication” and “citizen science”? Are they different points along a continuum stretching from “simple” to “…
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of Covid-19
In this article, we investigate the surge in use of COVID-19-related preprints by media outlets. Journalists are a main source of reliable public health information during crises and, until recently, journalists have been reluctant to cover preprints because of the associated scientific uncertainty. Yet, uploads of COVID-19 preprints and their uptake by online media have outstripped that of preprints about any other topic. Using an innovative app…
The Conversation, Ten Years On
The Conversation (theconversation.com) represents a unique model for communicating scholarly research to the general public via explanatory journalism. Rather than relying on scholars’ personal networks, the promotional efforts of university press offices, or requests from science journalists for comments on current developments, The Conversation offers a platform for scholars across all disciplines to pitch their own stories, gain support from i…
Canada
This chapter provides an account of modern science communication in Canada, including historical factors influencing its development, and the development of the distinct Province of Quebec. Canada is a bilingual country. Over 24 million Canadians (74 per cent of the population) speak English at home, and nearly 8.2 million (23 per cent) speak French. Over 5.7 million people (71 per cent of the population) in Quebec speak only French at home (Stat…
Communicating Science
Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing
This study contributes to research into genre innovation and scholarship exploring how Indigenous epistemes are disrupting dominant discourses of the academy. Using a case study approach, we investigated 31 research articles produced by Mäori scholars and published in the journal AlterNative between 2006 and 2018. We looked for linguistic features associated with self-positioning and self-identification. We found heightened ambiguous uses of “we”…
Communicating Science
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession-and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators
Discourse Ecology and Knowledge Niches
In this article, we investigate Internet discourses that capture Canadians' perceptions of the risk of radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident. We consider these online discourses of radiation risk in the context of recent Internet-based theories that explore ecological models of communication, and we take a discourse approach to our analysis of the online texts about Fukushima radiation risk. Our analysis reveals that, while governmen…
Identifying and Testing Engagement and Public Literacy Indicators for River Health
Natural resource management (NRM) organisations in Australia are increasingly recognising the need for complement studies of biophysical condition of the environment with studies of social condition, such as values, understanding, and participation related to the environment. Relevant and reliable social indicators that can be scaled and measured on a regular basis are essential to meet this need. In this study, we identified four indicators to t…
Discourse Ecology and Knowledge Niches
In this article, we investigate Internet discourses that capture Canadians' perceptions of the risk of radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident. We consider these online discourses of radiation risk in the context of recent Internet-based theories that explore ecological models of communication, and we take a discourse approach to our analysis of the online texts about Fukushima radiation risk. Our analysis reveals that, while governmen…
Environmental Communication and Science Communication—Conversations, Connections and Collaborations
This commentary considers the separate but interconnected evolution of science \ncommunication and environmental communication as fields of research and practice, and \nargues for better mutual understanding between the fields, including an understanding of \nnecessary differences. It notes that the repertoires of science communication and \nenvironmental communication overlap but have different emphases. Environmental \ncommunication emphasises …
Canada
This chapter provides an account of modern science communication in Canada, including historical factors influencing its development, and the development of the distinct Province of Quebec. Canada is a bilingual country. Over 24 million Canadians (74 per cent of the population) speak English at home, and nearly 8.2 million (23 per cent) speak French. Over 5.7 million people (71 per cent of the population) in Quebec speak only French at home (Stat…
Communicating Science
Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing
This study contributes to research into genre innovation and scholarship exploring how Indigenous epistemes are disrupting dominant discourses of the academy. Using a case study approach, we investigated 31 research articles produced by Mäori scholars and published in the journal AlterNative between 2006 and 2018. We looked for linguistic features associated with self-positioning and self-identification. We found heightened ambiguous uses of “we”…
Communicating Science
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession-and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators
The Conversation, Ten Years On
The Conversation (theconversation.com) represents a unique model for communicating scholarly research to the general public via explanatory journalism. Rather than relying on scholars’ personal networks, the promotional efforts of university press offices, or requests from science journalists for comments on current developments, The Conversation offers a platform for scholars across all disciplines to pitch their own stories, gain support from i…
The Ladder of Power
On March 28, 2022, the Journal of Science Communication published a special issue on participatory science communication featuring 15 papers and essays. The Journal of Science Communication special issue sparked a debate among the four editors over the wording of the call for papers. What is the difference between “participatory science communication” and “citizen science”? Are they different points along a continuum stretching from “simple” to “…
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of Covid-19
In this article, we investigate the surge in use of COVID-19-related preprints by media outlets. Journalists are a main source of reliable public health information during crises and, until recently, journalists have been reluctant to cover preprints because of the associated scientific uncertainty. Yet, uploads of COVID-19 preprints and their uptake by online media have outstripped that of preprints about any other topic. Using an innovative app…
Second-order citations in altmetrics
The potential to capture the societal impact of research has been a driving motivation for the use and development of altmetrics. Yet, to date, altmetrics have largely failed to deliver on this potential because the primary audience that cites research on social media has been shown to be academics themselves. In response, our study investigates an extension of traditional altmetric approaches that goes beyond capturing direct mentions of researc…
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe
This study investigates the methods and practices used by self-identified fact-checkers situated on the fringe of the field of fact-checking to support their agenda for public recognition and legitimacy. Using a case study approach and selecting nine cases across five countries (Russia, Brazil, India, China, and Singapore), we identify the most common distinguishable attributes and tactics associated with this ambiguous collection of actors. In a…
Fact-Checking Role Performances and Problematic Covid-19 Vaccine Content in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
The move from political fact-checking to a “public health” or debunking model of fact-checking, sustained by policies and funding from platforms, highlights important tensions in the case of Covid-19. Building on findings from studies focused on journalistic role performance, we investigated how professional fact-checkers in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa conceived of and performed their professional roles when addressing Covid-19 vaccinati…
Academic explanatory journalism and emerging Covid-19 science
This article examines the public communication of COVID-19-related ‘preprints’ (unreviewed research studies) in a digital media environment. To understand how preprint research flows from preprint server, to media story, to social media audience, we analysed engagement with ‘second-order citations’ – social media posts linking to media coverage of research – using a sample of 41 media stories published by the research amplifier platform The Conve…
Research Genai
This paper charts the emergence of a distinct category of research-dedicated GenAI platforms, which we term Research GenAI or RGAI. These platforms are explicitly marketed to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying/summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. RGAI platforms (e.g., Consensus, Elicit, R…
Analysing News Polarisation
Political polarisation – at the level of individual issues or broader ideologies, and expressed through differences of opinion on policies, divergent affective attachments, contrary interpretations of available information, or distinct patterns of interaction with other partisans – is necessarily always closely related to the information that individuals and groups engage with as they form and reinforce their own opinions about a given issue or t…
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search
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…
Multimodal narratives of climate denial
climate denial discourse is represented on social media multimodally. • dominant visual signatures are isolated using an unsupervised machine learning technique. • the chemtrails conspiracy theory describes the most prevalent visual signature. • chemtrails conspiracy and climate denial discourses intertwine with other conspiratorial discourses through visuals, hashtags, and text. Problematic information about climate change in online spaces can i…
Amplifying the News
Division, not reconciliation
Concerns about rising social and political polarisation are widespread, with blame often attributed to partisan or biased news coverage despite limited empirical evidence. Previous studies have focussed on audiences, either their political leanings or polarised responses to news, offering limited insight into patterns of viewpoint diversity within news content. This study introduces an approach to measuring news media polarisation beyond the left…
How Uncertainty Is Talked About in Language Discordant and Concordant Health Consultations
Integrity under pressure
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly present in academic writing workflows, and their irresponsible use poses a growing threat to the integrity of scholarly publishing. In this editorial, we highlight the emergence of AI-generated references, or so-called “ghost references”, as a specific concern for JCOM and the wider academic community. We consider how AI tools like large language models can produce convincing yet fict…
"Just Asking Questions"
Interactive chat systems that build on generative artificial intelligence frameworks - such as ChatGPT or Copilot - are increasingly embedded into search engines, Web browsers, operating systems, or available as standalone sites and apps. In a communication ecosystem where information disorder is a persistent threat (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017), there is the potential for users to utilise chat systems to seek information about conspiracy theories …
Ethics, generative AI and science communication
In this essay, we argue that the applications of generative-AI technologies to science communication need careful consideration to ensure such uses are desirable, and socially and ethically acceptable. In early applications of GenAI in science communication, especially in public media, there has been swift and overwhelmingly negative response to news about its use. Drawing on existing literature about generative-AI in adjacent fields to science c…
Shining Light on “Dark Science”
The journalistic watchdog role has traditionally been theorised as a mechanism for scrutinising political power. Yet comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to watchdog practices that target science itself, despite growing concerns about research misconduct, misinformation, and the misuse of scientific authority in digital media environments. This study addresses this gap by conceptualising and mapping the emerging ecosystem of sci…
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