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Introduction
I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about how people think about and react to knowledge claims they encounter on social media, especially in context of controversial issues. By extension, I am also interested how to communicate science to the public in order to bolster epistemic trust.
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January 2019 - November 2024
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- Associate Researcher
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- Associate Researcher at the Media, Cognition and Learning Research Group.
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People resort to the news to find out about science, but the evolving media landscapehas transformed how science is reported. Due to media’s infrastructural challenges, specialistjournalists and non-specialist science journalists report on science. Given that journalists holdan epistemic function by disseminating knowledge claims, this exploratory...
This symposium explores the complex relationship between emotions and epistemic engagement across diverse learning contexts. Emotions, integral to cognitive processes, can enhance epistemic engagement by triggering curiosity, focus, and critical evaluation, especially when knowledge-building is the goal. This session will present studies on the rel...
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns w...
Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus acros...
Trust in science post-Covid appears to be a complex matter. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic added value to the epistemic trustworthiness of scientific opinion and its potential to drive evidence-based policies, while it also spurred scientific distrust and societal polarization (e.g., vaccines), especially on social media. In this work we so...
Social media have permeated people’s lives and have become spaces where people retrieve and engage with information. Social media offer opportunities for epistemic engagement with information, which may be demonstrated by people’s goal-oriented epistemic actions during information evaluation. This study examined whether epistemic actions are influe...
This exploratory study sought to understand how adults evaluated a simulated social media post on climate change, relating to meat consumption, by considering the epistemic actions on the post, and participants’ subsequent epistemic engagement when prompted to explain their emotions. It extends work on epistemic cognition in information-complex env...
This exploratory case study aimed to understand to what extent epistemic emotions are connected to effortful engagement when young adults were incidentally exposed to textual information snippets on a simulated social media timeline. Using discourse analysis, we draw on think-aloud data from fifteen young adults, to identify participants' emotional...
What are pathways toward critical and just data literacies? Achieving critical and just data literacies is especially challenging in an ideologically polarizing "post-truth" world in which we confront a rising tide of misinformation and fake news, alongside discourse that denigrates politically conservative perspectives. Although reasoning with dat...
Social media have become online spaces where misinformation abounds and spreads virally in the absence of professional gatekeeping. This information landscape requires everyday citizens, who rely on these technologies to access information, to cede control of information. This work sought to examine whether the control of information can be regaine...
Social media have created communication channels between citizens and policymakers
but are also susceptible to rampant misinformation. This new context demands new social media policies that can aid policymakers in making evidence-based decisions for combating
misinformation online. This paper reports on data collected from policymakers in Austria,...
The popularity of Facebook makes it a particularly interesting platform to explore within an educational setting. In this article, we report on the use of Facebook to support a Media Studies A-level course that involved current and former students using a closed Facebook group. At the time of the study, the group included 106 graduates, and 21 juni...
As access to news is increasingly mediated through social media platforms, there are rising concerns for citizens’ ability to evaluate online information and detect potentially misleading items. While many studies have reported on how people assess the credibility of information, there are few reports on processes related to evaluating information...
