The relationship between science, media and the public sphere has changed fundamentally in recent decades. As late as the mid 1990s, the status of science reporting in the German-speaking countries was "stably marginal”. Today it is a firmly established component of media output – be it in the print, broadcasting or online sector. The number and volume of science pages, science supplements, science magazines, science programs and science blogs are steadily growing, while, in Austria, the public acceptance of science and research has been consistently low. This research focus therefore deals with both supply and demand of scientific information - past and present.

Sub-project "Medical News in the Headlines"

 

CMC Staff

Maren B. M. Beaufort

Matthias Karmasin (PI)

Gabriele Melischek (Sub-project leader: "Medical News in the Headlines of the Kronen Zeitung since 1959")

Josef Seethaler (Contact)

Congress Organisation

"Braucht es eine neue Wissenschaftskommunikation?" ["Do we need a new science communication?"] (in cooperation with the Commission for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities), Vienna, 25.11.2022

"Ganz Ohr für die Wissenschaft" [All Ears for Science] (in cooperation with ORF Radio Ö1 and the network of scientific podcasters), Vienna, 28.-29.09.2018

"Wissenschaft und Medien: Ein gestörtes Verhältnis?" [Science and Media: A Disturbed Relationship?] Ein Kolloquium der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der ÖAW [A colloquium of the Divison of Humanties and the Social Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences], Vienna, 11.11.2010

In the media

"Darwin als Opfer des Boulevards": science.orf.at, 10.11.2017

“Von der Einbahnstraße zur Partizipation [From one-way street to participation]“: science.orf.at, 16.10.2016

“Es ist wieder cool, viel zu wissen [Knowledge is cool again]”: APA Science Magazin 1/2016

"Journalismus soll sich Zeit lassen [Journalism should take its time]": science.orf.at, 15.01.2016

"Grundlagenforschung? Brauch ma net! [Basic research? Don´t need that!]": derStandard.at, 24.11.2010

Publications and Lectures