publications
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, forthcoming/in pressforthcoming/in press
Binder, A. R., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (in press). Contentious communities: Examining antecedents to opinion perception and expression during site-selection for a bioresearch facility. In P. Moy (Ed.), Communication and community. New York: Hampton Press.
Li, N., Anderson, A. A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D.A. (forthcoming). Channeling science information seekers' attention? A content analysis of top-ranked vs. lower-ranked sites in Google. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
2013
Allgaier, J., Dunwoody, S., Brossard, D., Lo, Y-Y., Peters, H.P. (2013). Journalism and social media as means of observing the contexts of science. BioScience, 63, 284–287. doi: doi:10.1525/bio.2013.63.4.8
Anderson, A. A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A., & Ladwig, P. (2013). The "nasty effect:" Online incivility and risk perceptions of emerging technologies. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12009.
Anderson, A. A., Kim, J., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2013). What's in a name? How we define nanotech shapes public reactions. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 15(1421). doi:10.1007/s11051-013-1421-z
Brossard, D. & Scheufele, D. A. (2013). Science, new media and the public. Science, 339(6115), 40-41. doi:10.1126/science.1232329
Cacciatore, M., Scheufele, D.A., & Corley, E.A. (2013). Another (methodological) look at knowledge gaps and the Internets potential for closing them. Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/0963662512447606
Choi, D.-H., Dudo, A., & Scheufele, D. A. (2013). U.S. news coverage of neuroscience nanotechnology: How U.S. newspapers have covered neuroscience nanotechnology during the last decade. In S. Hays, J. Robert, C. Miller, & I. Bennett (Eds.), Yearbook of nanotechnology in society: Nanotechnology, the brain, and the future, 3, 67-78. New York: Springer.
Runge, K.K., Yeo, S.K., Cacciatore, M., Scheufele, D.A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M., Anderson, A., Choi, D.H., Kim, J., Li, N., Liang, X., Stubbings, M., & Su, L.Y.F. (2013). Tweeting nano: How public discourses about nanotechnology develop in social media environments. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. (15)1:1-11. doi:10.1007/s11051-012-1381-8
2012
Anderson, A. A. Brossard, D. & Scheufele D. A. (2012). News coverage of controversial emerging technologies: Evidence for the issue attention cycle in print and online media. Politics and the Life Sciences. 31(1-2), 87-96. doi:10.2990/31_1-2_87
Anderson, A. A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A. & Xenos, M. A. (2012). Online talk: How exposure to disagreement in online comments affects beliefs in the promise of controversial science. In L. Phillips, A. Carvalho & J. Doyle (Eds.), Citizen voices: Performing public participation in science and environment communication. ECREA Book Series.
Anderson, A. A., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D. , & Corley, E. A. (2012). The role of media and deference to scientific authority in cultivating trust in sources of information about emerging technologies. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 24(2), 225-237. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edr032
Brossard, Dominique (2012): A Brave new world: Challenges and opportunities for communicating about biotechnology in new information environments. In: Weitze, Marc- Denis, Puehler, Alfred et al. (Eds.): Biotechnologie-Kommunikation: Kontroversen, Analysen, Aktivitäten, Heidelberg: Springer.
Brossard, D. (2012). Social challenges: Public opinion and agricultural biotechnology. In J. Popp, M. Jahn, M. Matlock & N. Kemper (Eds.), The Role of Biotechnology in a Sustainable Food Supply. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Brossard, D. & Dudo, A. (2012). Cultivation of attitudes toward science. In J. Shananan, M. Morgan & N. Signorelli (Eds.), Living With Television Now: Advances in Cultivation Theory and Research. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Cacciatore, M. A., Anderson, A. A., Choi, D-H., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Liang, X., Ladwig, P. J., Xenos, M. , & Dudo, A. (2012). Coverage of emerging technologies: A comparison between print and online media. New Media and Society, 14(6). Published online March 21, 2012 as doi:10.1177/1461444812439061.
Dahlstrom, M. F., Dudo, A. D., & Brossard, D. (2012). Precision of information, sensational information, and self-efficacy information as message-level variables affecting risk perceptions. Risk Analysis, 32(1), 155166. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01641.x
Ladwig, P., Dalrymple, K.A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A. & Corley, E.A. (2012). Perceived familiarity or factual knowledge? Comparing operationalizations of scientific understanding. Science and Public Policy, 39,761-774 doi:10.1093/scipol/scs048
Liang, X., Anderson, A. A., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2012). Information snapshots: What Google searches really tell us about emerging technologies. Nano Today, 7(2), 72-75. doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2012.01.001
Shih, T., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2012). Disagreement and value predispositions: Understanding public opinion about stem cell research. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. doi:10.1093/ijpor/eds029
2011
Berube, D. M., Cummings, C. C., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Kalin, J. (2011). Characteristics and classification of nanoparticles: Expert Delphi survey. Nanotoxicology, 5(2), 236-243. doi: 10.3109/17435390.2010.521633
Binder, A. R., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Shaw, B. R., & Corley, E. A. (2011). Measuring risks/benefits perceptions of emerging technologies and their potential impact on communication of public opinion toward science. Public Understanding of Science. doi:10.1177/0963662510390159
Delborne, J. A., Anderson, A. A., Kleinman, D. L., Colin, M., & Powell, M. (2011). Virtual deliberation? Prospects and challenges for integrating the Internet in consensus conferences. Public Understanding of Science, 20, 367-384. doi:10.1177/0963662509347138
Dudo, A., Choi, D-H., & Scheufele, D. A. (2011). Food nanotechnology in the news: Coverage patterns and thematic emphases during the last decade. Appetite, 56(1), 78-89. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.11.143
Dudo, A. , Dunwoody, S., & Scheufele, D. A. (2011). The emergence of nano news: Tracking thematic trends and changes in U.S. newspaper coverage of nanotechnology. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 88(1), 55-75. doi: 10.1177/107769901108800104
Kleinman, D. L.; Delborne, J. A.; & Anderson, A. A. (2011). Engaging citizens: The high cost of citizen participation in high technology. Public Understanding of Science, 20(2), 221-240. doi: 10.1177/0963662509347137
Powell, M.; Colin, M.; Kleinman, D. L.; Delborne, J. A.; & Anderson, A. A. (2011). Imagining ordinary citizens? Conceptualized and actual participants for deliberations on emerging technologies. Science as Culture, 20(1), 37-70. doi: 10.1080/09505430903567741
Xenos, M.A., Becker, A.B., Anderson, A.A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. (2011). Stimulating upstream engagement: An experimental study of nanotechnology information seeking. Social Science Quarterly, 92(5), 1191-1214. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00814.x
2010
Anderson, A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. (2010). The changing information environment for nanotechnology: online audiences and content. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 12(4), 1083-1094. doi: 10.1007/s11051-010-9860-2
Becker, A.B., Dalrymple, K.E., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D.A., & Gunther, A.C. (2010). Getting citizens involved: How controversial policy debates stimulate issue participation during a political campaign. The International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22(2), 181-203. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edp047
Ladwig, P., Anderson, A. A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Shaw, B. (2010). Narrowing the nano discourse? Materials Today, (13), 52-54. doi: 10.1016/S1369-7021(10)70084-5
Scheufele, D. A., & Dudo, A. (2010). Emerging agendas at the intersection of political and science communication: The case of nanotechnology. In C. Salmon (Ed.) Communication Yearbook, 34(43-166). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
2009
Brossard, D. (2009) Media, scientific journals and science communication: examining the construction of scientific controversies. Public Understanding of Science, 18(3), 258-274. doi: 10.1177/0963662507084398
Brossard D., & Lewenstein, B. (2009). A critical appraisal of models of public understanding of Science: Using practice to inform theory. In L. Kahlor & P. Stout (Eds), Understanding science: New agendas in science communication. New York: Routledge.
Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A., Kim, E., & Lewenstein, B. V. (2009). Religiosity as a perceptual filter: Examining processes of opinion formation about nanotechnology. Public Understanding of Science, 18(5), 546-558. 10.1177/0963662507087304
Dunwoody, S. Brossard, D., & Dudo, A. (2009). Socialization or rewards? Predicting American scientists-media interactions.Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 86(2), 299-313. doi: 10.1177/107769900908600203
Nisbet, M.C., Brossard, D. & Scheufele, D.A. (2009, Sept. 16). Science needs a storyline: The question is not if, but how scientists should frame research. Columbia Journalism Review Online.
2008
Ho, S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D.A. (2008). Effects of value predispositions, mass media and knowledge on public attitudes toward embryonic stem cell research. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(2), 171-192.
Peters, H. P., Brossard, D., de Cheveigné, S., Dunwoody, S., Kallfass, M., Miller, S., & Tsuchida, S. (2008). Science communication: Interactions with the mass media. Science, 321(5886), 204-205.
Powell, M.,& Kleinman, D. L.(2008). Building citizen capacities for participation in technoscientific decision making: The democratic virtues of the consensus conference model. Public Understanding of Science, 17(3), 329-348.
Scheufele, D. & Brossard, D. (2008). Nanotechnology as a moral issue? Religion and science in the U.S. Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2007
Brossard, D. & Nisbet, M. C. (2007). Deference to scientific authority among a low information public: Understanding U.S. opinion on agricultural biotechnology. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 19(1), 24-52.
Brossard, D., & Shanahan J. (2007). Perspectives on communication about agricultural biotechnology. In D. Brossard, J. Shanahan, & T. C. Nesbit (Eds.), The public, the media, and agricultural biotechnology: An international casebook (pp. 3-20). Cambridge, MA: Oxford
Kleinman, D. L., Powell M., Grice, J., Adrian, J., & Lobes, C. ( 2007). A toolkit for democratizing science and technology policy: The practical mechanics of organizing a consensus conference. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 27(2), 154-169.
Nisbet, M. C., Scheufele, D. A. (2007). The future of public engagement [Cover article]. The Scientist, 21(10), 38-44.
Scheufele, D. A., Corley, E. A., Dunwoody, S., Shih, T., Hillback, E., & Guston, D. (2007). Scientists worry about some risks more than the public. Nature Nanotechnology, 2(12), 732 - 734.
Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Nano does not have a marketing problem … yet. Nano Today, 2(5), 48.
Scheufele, D. A. (2007). Opinion climates, spirals of silence, and biotechnology: Public opinion as a heuristic for scientific decision making. In D. Brossard, J. Shanahan, & T. C. Nesbit (Eds.), The public, the media, and agricultural biotechnology: An international casebook (pp. 231-241). Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press/CABI.