2013 Conference Papers

Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Corley, E. A. (2013, October). Explaining attitudes toward nanotechnology: The interaction between risk perceptions and regulatory trust on public support. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.Net), Boston, MA.

Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Yeo, S. K., Xenos, M., Choi, D.-H., Brossard, D., & Corley, E. A. (2013, June). Misperceptions in polarized politics: The role of knowledge, religiosity, and media. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, UK.

Choi, D.-H., Cacciatore, M. A., Kim, Y. M., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A., Brossard, D., & Corley, E. A. (2013, May). Issue publics in nanotechnology in the new media environment. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.

Dalrymple, K. & Shaw, B. (2013, June). Making waves: Mass media, opinion leaders, and the campaign for environmental change. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, UK.

Ho, S. S., Liang, X., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M., Hao, X., & He, X. (2013, June). Value predispositions as perceptual filters: A cross-cultural comparison of public attitudes toward nanotechnology in the United States and Singapore. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, UK.

Li, N., Akin, H., Su, L. Y.-F., Xenos, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2013, June). Use Twitter to assess public opinion about nuclear power pre- and post-Fukushima. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, UK.

Li, N., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2013, December). What do government and non-profit stakeholders want to know about nuclear fuel cycles? A semantic network analysis approach. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Society for Risk Analysis, Baltimore, MD. 

Li, N., Brossard, D., Xenos, M. A., & Scheufele, D. A. (2013, May). Is deliberative science possible? Examining the links between informational factors, science knowledge, and attitude extremity. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.

Liang, X., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A. (2013, May). Blogging nanotechnology:  Public discourse around emerging technologies in the blogosphere. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA

Runge, K. R., Yeo, S. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2013, May). God, money, politics & science: The role of religion, conservative economic and liberal social attitudes on perception of science in the last weeks of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.

Su, L. Y.-F., Liang, X., Li, N., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2013, May). Public sentiments online: New tools of measurement combining human- and computer-based coding. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.

Xenos, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Choi, D.-H., Cacciatore, M., Yeo, S. K., & Su, L. Y.-F. (2013, June). News media use and the informed public in the digital age. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, UK.

Yeo, S. K., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2013, May). Dangerous disconnects? How public discourse about nanotechnology is missing the point. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.

Yeo, S. K., Xenos, M. A., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2013, August). Information seeking in an age of (un)reliable information. Paper presented at the annual pre-conference of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.