Projects

Current Projects

How to make the online dialogue between science and society on climate research work

Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri, who holds the Chair of Science Communication at the University of Passau, has been put in charge of a new project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that takes climate research as a case in point to study how researchers handle online input from society.

Multilingual publics in the Corona vaccination debate on Twitter

The widespread use of social media has changed the public forever. In a hybrid media system, public debates have many different kinds of participants and heterogeneous contents. In this project, we are studying the Twitter debate about the development of vaccines and the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Germany.

bidt-project: Challenges of regulating digital communication platforms

What needs does society have in respect of the regulation of video platforms? Hannah Schmid-Petri, Professor for Science Communication at the University of Passau, and IT law expert, Professor Dirk Heckmann from the TU München (Technical University of Munich), are providing important insights for the European digital strategy in a joint bidt-project.

The negotiation of knowledge on Wikipedia (interdisciplinary)

Digitalization and the rapid development of the Internet changed the process of knowledge generation. In this project, a team led by Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri conducts research on negotiation processes and conflicts regarding Wikipedia entries.

Fraunhofer research group 'Science Communication'

The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence 'Integrated Energy Systems' CINES is establishing a research group relating to science communication: the group led by Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri is extending the research performance of the excellence cluster by the central dimension of science and technology communication.