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2021

Talk: Preaching to the choir? Science communication and the audiences not reached
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Science Science Communication Inclusion Participation Talk
I spoke at the Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference 2020+1 (PCST 2020+1) about not reached audiences in science communication. In the five-minute Insight Talk, I present the results from the project *Science for All. The focus is on the typology of exclusion factors we have developed and the qualitative and quantitative data that underpins it.

2020

Science communication on YouTube: Case study on the Earth Overshoot Day
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Science Open Science Publication Science Communication YouTube
Cooperations with influencers have now also arrived in science communication - but have not been given much scientific attention so far. Lena Kaul, Philipp Schrögel and I want to contribute to closing this research gap with our case study „Environmental Science Communication for a Young Audience: A Case Study on the #EarthOvershootDay Campaign on YouTube“. To do this, we took a closer look at YouTube videos from WWF’s #EarthOvershootDay campaign.
Collection of Surveys on the Corona Crisis
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Science Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic Science Communication Survey
The spread of the coronavirus affects all areas of society, and so it is no surprise that there are now numerous social science surveys on the pandemic.
This article is intended to serve as a collection and overview of such scientific polls. The focus lies on surveys about information and (media / science) communication around Covid-19.
Science communication, advising, and advocacy in public debates
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Science Science Communication Politics
“Science communication, advising, and advocacy in public debates” is the title of the article by Philipp Schrögel and myself in the recently published handbook “Science Communication” by Annette Leßmöllmann, Marcelo Dascal and Thomas Gloning at De Gruyter. (Unfortunately neither the book nor the article are OpenAccess.)
The English text looks at the extent to which traditional policy advice by science has opened up and thus changed in recent years and what this has to do with science communication.
Feeling Left Out: Underserved Audiences in Science Communication
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Science Emotions Exclusion Science Science Communication Science for All
In the project “Science for All”, my colleagues and I look at who science communication actually does not reach, what the causes are and what possible solutions there are. A first evaluation of our data has just been published in the magazine Media and Communication.

2014

Paranoid Android: How to fix the Safe Headset Volume bug
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Android IT Android How To Paranoid Android
At the moment I am running the Custom Rom Paranoid Android on my smartphone (a Nexus 4). Normally this is a fairly stable rom, with some nice features like Hover or Peek and a well-designed UI. However, in the latest version, 4.4 RC 1, there is an annoying bug: As soon as you listen to music via a headset and try to raise the volume over the so-called “Safe Headset Volume” Android reboots.