One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

ABSTRACT A consensus gap exists between scientific and public opinion on the existence
and causes of anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Public opinion on ACC is influenced by …

COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death in the United States, and
unvaccinated people continue to die in high numbers. Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine …

While scholarly attention to date has focused almost entirely on individual-level drivers of
vaccine confidence, we show that macro-level factors play an important role in …

Abstract The United Nations have described the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) as the worst global crisis since the second world war. Behavioral protective …

This article examines the role of social media dynamics in the public exchange of
information between scientists (experts), government (policy-makers), mass media …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation has been circulating on
social media and multiple conspiracy theories have since become quite popular. We …

The starting point of this theoretical article is the presentation of the issue of media
manipulation in the contemporary digital media environment. The theoretical part is followed …

Existing research on factors informing public perceptions of expert trustworthiness was
largely conducted during stable periods and in long-established Western liberal …

This study aimed to map and characterize public engagement with science on YouTube. A
two-part study was conducted. First, we collected and quantitatively analyzed trending …