2016 Conference Papers

Rose, K. M., Su, L. Y.-F., Wirz, C., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, December). Gut reactions to GMO foods: Analyzing the interplay of attitudes, trust, and risk perceptions. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), San Diego, California.

Simis-Wilkinson, M. (2016, December). Risk, media, and licorice: Stakeholders’ perceptions of and involvement in media coverage of the 2014 West Virginia water crisis. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), San Diego, California.

Wirz, C. D., Chung, J. H., Rose, K. M., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Xenos, M. A., Massarani, L., & Maynard, A. D. (2016, December). Zika Outbreak: A Multilingual Analysis of Social Media Discourse Surrounding the Zika Virus and Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes. Poster presented at the annual convention of Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), San Diego, California.

Howell, E. L., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, November). Scientist & Public Opinion on Synthetic Biology: Risks, Benefits, and Regulation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, Illinois.

Rose, K. M., Su, L. Y.-F., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, November). Factual versus perceived knowledge: Interplay of knowledge and food consciousness with GM attitudes. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, Illinois.

Runge, K. K., Chung, J. H., Su, L. Y.-F., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2016, November). Framing and risk related to innovative food technologies: The case of pink slime. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, Illinois.

Wirz, C. D., Chung, J. H., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Massarani, L., Xenos, M. A., & Maynard, A. D. (2016, November ). Zika outbreak: who is the problem and who is being blamed on social media? Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, Illinois.

Chung, J. H., Runge, K. K., Su, L. Y.-F., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2016, September). Media framing and perceptions of risk for food technologies: The case of pink slime. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe), Porto, Portugal.

Wirz, C., Liang, X., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, August). A State-Level Analysis of the Social Media Climate of GMOs in the U.S. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jun, H., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Corley, E. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, June). Polarization and mainstreaming effects: The role of political ideology, media and elaborative processing on public science attitudes. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Simis, M. J., Madden, H., Su, L. Y.-F., Lassen, D.S., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2016, April). Scientists joking on social media: An empirical analysis of #overlyhonestmethods. Paper presented at the 14th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

Yeo, S. K., Binder, A. R., Dahlstrom, M. F., & Brossard, D. (2016, April). Credibility and climate change: Perceived credibility of policy and science experts in visual media. Paper presented at the 14th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

Brossard, D. (2016, February). Scientists and Synthetic Biology: New Science, New Media, (New) Public Engagement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC.

Eichmeier, A., Wirz, C., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D., Xenos, M. & Stenhouse, N. (2016, February). Has Pope Francis changed the framing of climate change discourse online? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC.