Joachim Allgaier

• Professor; Dipl.Soz.; Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences

Bei der Oecotrophologie handelt es sich um ein multidisziplinäres Wissen-schafts-und Praxisfeld, das u. a. die Bereiche Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Er-nährungsberatung sowie Haushaltsökonomie und weitere Haushaltswissenschaf-ten umfasst. Die Darstellung und Kommunikation von wissenschaftlichen Dis-ziplinen in sozialen Medien ist ein wichtiger Aspek...

Food and nutrition are popular topics in social media platforms of all kinds. So far, academic research on the topic of digital nutrition communication is still rather in its infancy, but the high social relevance of the topic is undisputed. On the one hand, social media platforms such as TikTok could have a positive influence on knowledge and beha...

Evidence-based dietetic practice calls for systematically developed assessment methods for nutritional assessment in dietetic counselling and therapy (DCT). Screeners can provide a quick and easy way to determine a client’s diet quality and contribute to quality assurance in DCT. The aim of this systematic review was to give a comparative overview...

Influencers gain a growing impact on the social life and economic decisions of the web population. A special group are child influencers, carrying responsibility and popularity unusual for their young age. However, little research data exists regarding child influencers and their follower communities. Furthermore, social networks continue to restri...

Vegane Ernährung: Wie fundiert informiert die YouTube-Szene? Vegan essen liegt im Trend – auch auf YouTube. Doch welche Ernährungsbotschaften vermittelt die vor allem unter Jugendlichen beliebte Video-Plattform? Stimmen die Botschaften mit dem aktuellen Stand der Wissenschaft überein? Gelingt es, eine vegane Ernährung mit Hilfe dieser Botschaften...

„Fakt oder Fake: Wie gehen wir mit der Wissenschaftsskepsis um?“ – so lautete die aktuelle Preisfrage der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Aus über 140 eingereichten Essays wurden nun die drei besten ausgewählt. Desinteresse, Vorurteile und eine skeptische Einstellung gegenüber der Wissenschaft sind in Österreich im internationalen Ve...

Call for Papers: ‘Dark Sides of Digital Societies’ The 7th Annual NKL Conference Date: May 24-26, 2023 Location: Hochschule Fulda | Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany The Navigating Knowledge Landscapes (NKL) research network has employed the metaphor of ‘Knowledge Landscapes’ to examine particular digital constellations. In the 7th Annu...

Sustainability communication is of increasing importance. While sustainability communication in traditional media has already been well researched, more research is needed about social media platforms in this regard. By focusing on sustainability communication on TikTok, this study makes an important contribution to the literature. More specificall...

In this Research Topic we are interested in the impact of online video-sharing on the public communication of science and the environment, but also on intra-scientific communication and practice. The online video format has great potential for science and environmental communication, but there are also potential problems and pitfalls that need to b...

The term fake news has become an integral part of private and political debates. But what exactly is fake news? Is the term suitable as an instrument with which to analyse current and historical discourses? Questions like these are the focus of this volume, which examines the term fake news from interdisciplinary perspectives. What strategies are u...

Die Studie „Empfehlungen in Krisenzeiten“ untersucht, inwiefern durch YouTubes Empfehlungsalgorithmen desinformative Inhalte auf der Plattform befördert werden und inwieweit verlässliche und vielfältige Informationsangebote dabei sichtbar werden. Hierzu wurden insgesamt 90 Startvideos und Suchbegriffe zu den Themen Covid- 19-Pandemie, Klimawandel u...

Vieles deutet drauf hin, dass sich die Verbreitung von Falschinformationen und Verschwörungsgerüchten in jüngster Zeit erhöht hat. Es ist schwierig den Begriff "Fake News" eindeutig zu definieren, deshalb sollten Falschinformationen z.B. anhand von Faktizität (Grad der Abweichung von der Wahrheit) und Intentionalität, also der Absicht, die hinter i...

Since its launch in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest-growing social media applications in the world, being particularly popular among young people. Memetic videos, which often feature lip-syncing, dance routines and comedic skits, are a defining feature of the platform. This study used quantitative content analysis and qualitative themati...

This Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society explores what can be understood as ‘digital landscapes’. The term draws our attention to the complex and overlapping contours of off- and on-line information flows, exchanges and meanings, and how these embody cultural, political and epistemic processes. The term also points to the ways i...

Just before the European election in May 2019 a YouTube video titled The Destruction of the CDU (Rezo, 2019a) caused political controversy in Germany. The video by the popular German YouTuber Rezo attacked the conservative Government party CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) mainly for climate inaction. As a reaction to the subsequent...

Sogenannte „alternative Nachrichtenmedien“ deutscher Websites haben auf Facebook im Zuge der COVID-19 Pandemie nicht so sehr offenkundige Falschmeldungen und Verschwörungstheorien, als vielmehr scharf oppositionelle und systemkritische Positionen sowie populistische Darstellungen verbreitet. Zu diesem Schluss kommt ein auf dem Preprint Server arXiv...

Interview Aachener Zeitung 30. März 2020

Since its launch in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing social media applications in the world, being particularly popular among young people. Memetic videos, which often feature lip-syncing, dance routines, and comedic skits, are a defining feature of the platform. This study used quantitative content analysis and qualitative themat...

The internet, and particularly social media, are hotbeds for conspiracy worldviews because, in general, there are no gatekeepers and there is no quality control taking place. Algorithmic curating on social media sites is responsible for the content that users will encounter on their personalized profiles and timelines. Once they started to view or...

Rezo is a popular 26-year-old YouTuber based in the German university town Aachen, who normally posts funny clips and videos about music on his two YouTube channels. However, on May 18, 2019 he posted an unusually long video, which lasted almost an hour. He called the video “The destruction of the CDU”. The CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deuts...

An interview with Joachim Allgaier on his recently published study on how social media platforms such as YouTube have become hostile to climate science. When you search around climate change on YouTube the results are 50/50 climate science versus anti-science Chemtrails conspiracy theories. YouTube and Google Scholar have been strategically hijacke...

From the perspective of science communication research, very little is actually known about the working practices and self-perceptions of Science YouTubers. It is not clear whether most of them see themselves as influencers, journalists, entertainers, educators, scientists or something else. We find them almost everywhere in the world, using very...

In News in Brief (9 August 2019, p. 525) my study on climate videos on YouTube (1) was reported, stressing that almost half of the videos in the sample supported the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory. It claims that sinister forces are spraying people with toxic substances that appear as airplane contrails. The “chemtrails” theory has no backing among...

Call for Papers About this Research Topic In this Research Topic we are interested in the impact of online video-sharing on the public communication of science and the environment, but also on intra-scientific communication and practice. The online video format has great potential for science and environmental communication, but there are also pot...

Youtube hätte ein Riesenpotenzial für professionelle Wissenschaftsvermittlung.

Joachim Allgaier forscht am Lehrstuhl für Gesellschaft und Technik der RWTH Aachen unter anderem über digitale Medien und Wissenschaftskommunikation. 2015 untersuchte er auf YouTube Suchbegriffe zum Thema Klimawandel und fand heraus, dass bei manchen Begriffen sehr viele wissenschaftlich unseriöse Inhalte und Verschwörungstheorien erscheinen. Da si...

The online video-sharing website YouTube is extremely popular globally, also as a tool for information on science and environmental topics. However, only little is known about what kind of information users find when they are searching for information about climate science, climate change, and climate engineering on YouTube. This contribution prese...

There has been a considerable volume of work which has sought to understand the way in which users of digital systems make sense of them and how they may (or may not) meet their needs, in areas such as health (Nettleton et al. 2005; Koh, et al., 2013; Record et al., 2018), political agency and civic engagement (Vromen et al., 2016) the emergence of...

Star Trek has been popular not only with various international audiences; in fact, it has become a sort of icon of popular culture. Its imagery, style and ideas have inspired and motivated many scientists, researchers and inventors. There have been numerous interesting and fruitful interactions between the real world of science and research and Sta...

The public image of scientists, researchers and physicians and their work is not only influenced by what people learn in school or hear in the news. How medicine, science and research are represented in popular and entertainment culture also has an influence on how many people perceive them and what they think about it. In this chapter we will expl...

Culture Jamming has various meanings. First, it refers to an anti-consumerist social and political activist movement that wants to challenge the cultural hegemony of capitalist enterprises and corporations. Second, it is also a tactic used by various social movements that blends art and activism, for instance by (but not limited to) modifying and m...

MySpace is a social networking site founded in 2003. Music is and always was a central component of this site. This site once was the most popular site of its kind, however after various debacles it had been overturned by new online competitors, such as Facebook. The short history and development of this particular social networking service provide...

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California in the United States of America that is known globally for being an innovation hub for high-tech, media and communication technology, Internet and computer applications, social media services, and technology startups. This entry provides an overview of Silicon Valley, including its origins and devel...

YouTube is a particularly popular online video sharing site. It is not only used for entertainment and commercial purposes but also to disseminate and obtain information and knowledge concerning science and medicine. So far rather little is known about science and health communication via online video sharing websites such as YouTube. In this chapt...

The public image of scientists, researchers and physicians and their work is not only influenced by what people learn in school or hear in the news. How medicine, science and research are represented in popular and entertainment culture also has an influence on how many people perceive them and what they think about it. In this chapter we will expl...

Der Begründer der Sozialpsychologie Gustave Le Bon verfasste im Jahr 1895 seine große Arbeit über die Massenpsychologie in der er feststellte, dass es nichts Unwahrscheinliches für die Massen gäbe und dass das Unwahrscheinliche das Auffallendste ist. Auch heute noch regt das Unwahrscheinliche viele Menschen zum Träumen, Spekulieren und Nachdenken a...

Das fiktionale Star Trek Universum, in Deutschland auch bekannt unter dem Titel der ersten Fernsehsendung Raumschiff Enterprise, ist weltweit bekannt und beliebt. Auch heute noch werden diesem fiktionalen Universum neue Filme und Serien hinzugefügt und die Welt von Star Trek hat international sehr viele treue Fans, die sich selbst als Trekkies beze...

Interview in Der Standard

Widely known as a “Father of the Internet,” Vinton Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In a recent interview with the German version of Wired Magazine Cerf was asked if he was happy with the way how his “child” had developed. Cerf responded that he was very happy with the way how the Internet itself...

Video of a Lecture on Climate Engineering [in German] Part 1 Daniel Barben on Climate Engineering and Governance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJWH5irCvE Part 2 Joachim Allgaier on Climate Engineering in the media and on YouTube and conspiracy theories about climate / geoengineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqRrH-CvGE

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem bislang verhältnismäßig wenig erforschten Bereich Wissenschaft und Populärkultur und fokussiert hier vor allem auf Wissenschaft in Unterhaltungsmedien und –formaten, wie etwa Spielfilmen, Fernsehserien und Comics und Cartoons. Er beschäftigt sich zuerst mit den Interaktionen zwischen Populärkultur, Forschung...

I think webvideos have a huge potential for science and research communication for various reasons. One reason is that they provide far more opportunities than the usual journal article. In fact, there are already some scientific journals out there that publish in the webvideo format, such as The Journal of Visualized Experiments or the Journal of...

The use of social online media for scientific practice and science communication and its impact on public perceptions of science, technology and medicine is still underexplored. Here it is particularly the web video format that we think has a lot of potential for research and science communication purposes. Web video platforms, such as YouTube or V...

Traditionally journalistic mass media and compulsory and informal science education were the main sources of citizens' knowledge about science, technology and medicine. The availability of new online media has changed the media and information infrastructure. The use of digital and social media for scientific practice and science communication and...

Es ist ein weiter Weg von Amateurvideos mit niedlichen Katzen und süßen Babys, wie sie Youtube einst groß gemacht haben, zu Kurzfilmen im Netz, die wissenschaftliches Wissen über den evolutionären Stammbaum der Feliden in eine spannende Geschichte verpacken oder ihre Zuschauer für die neuesten Erkenntnisse über die Embryogenese im Mutterleib begeis...

How do neuroscientists “make sense” of public visibility in the context of their scientific work? Hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling analyses of 24 in-depth interviews with U.S. neuroscientists produced word groups and concept maps related to possible “medialization” processes. Findings suggest that scientists are factoring...

Science, research and emerging technologies often play a key role in many modern action movies. In this contribution we suggest to use genre analysis of folk narratives as an innovative and useful tool for understanding science and technology in action movies. In this contribution we outline our approach using illustrative examples and detail how u...

The prevalent lack of research on the interrelations between science, research and popular culture led to the organization of the first International Conference on Science and Research in Popular Culture #POPSCI2015, which took place at Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt, Austria, from 17–18 September 2015. The aim of the conference was to bring...

Research on science communication and public engagement with science so far has strongly focused on science content in journalistic news media and so far only a few studies have seriously examined other products of media and popular culture. However, scholars such as Görke and Ruhrmann (2003) or Maio (2006) stress that entertainment media also infl...

Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Western Africa: It is clear that the outbreak of local virus epidemics must be fought with the best biomedical and scientific tools and knowledge available. But we also have to deal with secondary, virtual epidemics that are taking place globally in news and social online media, where various correct and incorrect in...

Today patients are confronted with an increase in complexity of health-related information, including that on medical procedures, data interpretation, and multifaceted therapeutic strategies. At the same time, there is a justified need to simplify information in order to enable patients to make decisions about themselves (1). The patient is indeed...

Previous research showed that pop music bands in the Western world have sometimes included science imagery in their lyrics. Their songs could potentially be helpful facilitators for science communication and public engagement purposes. However, so far no systematic research has been conducted for investigating science in popular music in Eastern cu...

Social Media Wissenschaftspionierin Elise Andrew hat mit einem Mix aus Sex, Drugs, Humour and Entertainment enormen Erfolg als Online-Wissenschaftskommunikatorin. Nicht ohne Ironie ist jedoch, dass diese Entwicklung so weit geht, dass es das „neue“ Medienphänomen zu einer eigenen Show im „alten“ Medium Fernsehen gebracht hat. Ergo: Über Wissenschaf...

The United Kingdom is home of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) and his theory of evolution. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published on November 24, 1859 by John Murray in London. The first edition was sold out to book sellers the day it was published. The official view of Darwin’s eminence as a scientist was demonstrat...

Journalistic mass media are the main and for many people the only source of information about biomedical and scientific developments. How the media treat these topics hence frames the public debate about the ethical and legal issues about medical applications and technologies. However, the inter-relationships and inter-dependence of scientists and...

Uncertainty is an important aspect of scientific work and it is no secret that progress is a less straightforward path than what is presented in research councils’ calls for proposals, or national and EU strategy plans. The conflict between actual research output and expectations that are raised can be difficult to articulate, unless one finds stor...

The privacy concerns discussed in the 1990s in relation to the New Genetics failed to anticipate the relevant issues for individuals, families, geneticists and society. Consumers, for example, can now buy their personal genetic information and share it online. The challenges facing genetic privacy have evolved as new biotechnologies have developed,...

Bei YouTube handelt es sich um eine spektakuläre Erfolgsstory in der Onlinekommunikation. Inzwischen handelt es sich bei YouTube international um eine der populärsten Internetsites überhaupt. In vielen Ländern fungiert YouTube schon als zweitbeliebteste Suchmaschine nach Google. Deshalb ist es naheliegend anzunehmen, dass sich viele Bürgerinnen und...

As scientists continue to embrace the Internet as both producers and consumers of information, the lines between journalism, blogging and public relations become increasingly blurred. Will this trend usurp traditional media's role in science reporting, or provide new contexts and interactions that enhance it?

Sustainable solutions and political regulation require public discussions, engagement, and dialogue at the interfaces between science and society. The communication and medialization of innovative knowledge is a key aspect for societal engagement, but also a major source of distortion. Knowledge about bio-objects, generated from biomedical and biot...

See also: https://books.google.de/books?id=QsLJBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Neue+Governance+der+Wissenschaft:+Reorganisation+-+externe+Anforderungen+%E2%80%93+Medialisierung&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU6_r4yMbcAhWBDewKHTsACcwQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Neue%20Governance%20der%20Wissenschaft%3A%20Reorganisation%20-%20externe%20Anforderungen%20%E2%80%93%20M...

The representation of biological innovations in and through communication and media practices is vital for understanding the nature of "bio-objects" and the process we call "bio-objectification." This paper discusses two ideal-typical analytical approaches based on different underlying communication models, ie, the traditional (science- and media-c...

Because the neurosciences affect many areas of society and culture, they receive much public attention. Brain research and other focuses of neuroscience are regularly featured in the mass media, calling on neuroscientists to serve as sources. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with neuroscientists in the United States and Germany, this article...

For several decades scholars have studied media reporting on scientific issues that involve controversy. Most studies so far have focused on the western world. This article tries to broaden the perspective by considering China and comparing it to a western country. A content analysis of newspaper coverage of vaccination issues in the UK and China s...

The transformation of today’s mass media system leads to uncertainty about communication behaviors concerning scientific issues. So far, few researchers have investigated this issue among scientists. We conducted a survey of neuroscientists in Germany and the United States in which we asked them about their own information-seeking behaviors and the...

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Because the neurosciences affect many areas of society and culture, they receive much public attention. Brain research and other focuses of neuroscience are regularly featured in the mass media, calling on neuroscientists to serve as sources. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with neuroscientists in the United States and Germany, this article...

Available online at: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32729/title/Opinion--Singing-about-Science/

Music videos are about many topics, and some are about science and technology. In this commentary, the author explores what kinds of music videos about science are available and how they could be categorized. It is argued that music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and science education. However, people who reject scientific...

Experts do play a particular role in public socio-scientific debates, even more so if they form heterogeneous coalition with other actors and experts. A case study about a public science education controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution/creationism in the UK press is used to investigate in detail how connections and coalitions between exp...

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Media accounts of reality have the potential to influence public opinion and decision making processes. Therefore who has and who does not have access to the media and can make their voice heard is a crucial question with serious political consequences. In this article it is investigated whether the speciality of journalists influences their source...

I start by introducing some ideas from the field of science and technology studies that concern the difficulty of differentiating experts and laypeople. Based on this description I react to Albæk's comment and further explain the approach taken in my study. The results of the study indicate that the function of different types of sources can vary o...

Eduard Kaeser has written an interesting and critical book that is concerned with the connections between science and everyday life. The conception of 'pop science' is introduced to characterize developments in science popularisation that are spectacular, superficial and potentially harmful to science-society relationships. The book is of special i...

The central aim of this research was to explore which role ethical considerations play in the university education of life scientists in Austria and more specifically how "ethics" is taught in this context.

The issue whether creationist accounts of the origins of life should be taught in science education alongside or even instead Darwin’s theory of evolution is controversial in many countries. In 2002 there was a controversy around teaching creationism in science classes at a secondary school in England. The research presented in this paper uses thi...

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Perspektiven der Medienkonvergenz am Beispiel digitaler Spiele Von Seiten der Spieleindustrie sowie von Fans und Machern digitaler Spiele wird immer wieder der enorme kommerzielle Erfolg und der rapide technische Fortschritt von digitalen Spielen betont. Dazu wird gelegentlich die Rede von der interaktiven Überlegenheit digitaler Spiele gegenüber a...

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