Julia Metag
juliametag.bsky.social
Julia Metag
@juliametag.bsky.social

Professor of Communication Science, Research on science communication and political communication
@ University of Muenster

Communication & Media Studies 41%
Political science 24%

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New paper out on trust in science in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

🙏 to @nielsmede.bsky.social and @colognaviktoria.bsky.social for initiating the TISP project and to @juliametag.bsky.social for her helpful input throughout the project. Free-access link: shorturl.at/4VBAJ
🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨

We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences

150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them!

Wanna know more? peerreviewstudy.com

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🚨 Call for Papers 📢 We invite abstract submissions for a special issue of Studies in Communication and Media (SCM), an ICA affiliate journal, on "The age of synthetic media" by Jan 31, 2025. Please submit & share widely 🙂
www.digital-participation.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Special Issue on „The age of synthetic media“ - Center for Digital Participation
Submissions for a Special Issue of the journal Studies in Communication and Media are now open.
www.digital-participation.org

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Social media has reshaped political communication—but how diverse is the research behind it? Our systematic review published in SComS answers this question. Together with the wonderful co-authors Kira Klinger, @juliametag.bsky.social, and Lukas Lindenschmidt. doi.org/10.24434/j.s...
More of the Same or Manifold Perspectives? : A Systematic Review of Research on Politicians’ Use of Social Media | Studies in Communication Sciences
doi.org

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The editorial of the #SCM issue 1/2025 gives insights into the past year’s developments. It is also the final one with @juliametag.bsky.social and Kerstin Thummes as our editors. Many thanks to them for their excellent work and for being part of the SCM team! doi.org/10.5771/2192...
🔍 Who are the users of alternative scientific media? 🔍
New study published in Science Communication. Lead by the wonderful Lena Zils, and together with @juliametag.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social and @mss7676.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1075...
Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media - Lena Zils, Florian Wintterlin, Julia Metag, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, 2025
Science is of crucial importance in contemporary societies. Concurrently, legacy news media outlets are losing their position as the main fora for discussing an...
doi.org

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I am super excited to serve as an editor of @scmeditor.bsky.social. It’s the official journal of #dgpuk, it’s open access, it is in English and German, it supports registered reports. So great journal all around, go submit your work :) #dgpuk2025
We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢
It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
We are happy to announce that our Special Issue on Media representations in an era of #pornification is out right before the holidays! Many thanks to the guest editors Nicola Döring, Nicole Krämer, Dan J. Miller, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social, and Gerhard Vowe. doi.org/10.5771/2192...
Call for Papers! On June 12, 2025, we host a pre-conference on #ScienceCommunication before the 75th Conference of the International Communication Association in Denver, CO 📢

#CallForPapers and more info: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o...
#Deadline for submissions: Jan 24, 2025

Spread the word! #ICA25

Ich würde auch gerne auf die Liste. Danke 😊

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New Study with Gwendolin Gurr and @juliametag.bsky.social finds: Negative evaluations of topic-specific coverage such as migration do not lead to a loss of trust in the media in general. More in the paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…
International Journal of Communication
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

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Liliann Fischer und Bastian Kremer blicken auf 10 Jahre #Wissenschaftsbarometer zurück. Im Interview erzählen sie, welche Einstellungen sich über die Jahre stark verändert haben & wie sie die Ergebnisse zu #Wissenschaftsfreiheit interpretieren:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/ein-all...
#Wisskomm
How do people use social media if they overestimate their knowledge about science issues like COVID-19? 🦠
Our new study shows: In Germany and Taiwan, overestimation is not linked to social media exposure, but to more engagement – and to populist views of science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Das @mscl.bsky.social und die Impact Unit laden herzlich zur Konferenz “Evaluation in Science Communication” an der Universität München ein. Tauscht euch vom 7. bis 8. Dezember 2023 mit Praktiker*innen und Wisskomm-Forscher*innen zu Entwicklungen und Perspektiven aus:
www.mscl.de/evaluation-i...