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Mike S. Schäfer
Researcher at University of Zurich
Publications - 169
Citations - 4428
Mike S. Schäfer is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science communication & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 147 publications receiving 3265 citations. Previous affiliations of Mike S. Schäfer include Free University of Berlin & University of Hamburg.
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Media attention for climate change around the world: A comparative analysis of newspaper coverage in 27 countries
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of issue attention in 27 countries was presented, among others, countries that have committed themselves to greenhouse gas emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol such as Germany as well as countries that are strongly affected by the consequences of climate change like India.
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Is the internet a better public sphere? Comparing old and new media in the USA and Germany
Jürgen Gerhards,Mike S. Schäfer +1 more
TL;DR: The article compares the levels that are most strongly structured and most influential for the wider society: the mass media and communication as organized by search engines, and finds that internet communication does not differ significantly from the offline debate in the print media.
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Media Representations of Climate Change: A Meta-Analysis of the Research Field
Mike S. Schäfer,Inga Schlichting +1 more
TL;DR: This paper provided a systematic, large-scale, and up-to-date overview of the objects and characteristics of this research field through a meta-analysis, identifying 133 relevant studies and analyzes them empirically.
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Online communication on climate change and climate politics: a literature review
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the available scholarly literature on the role of online and social media in climate communication and highlighted the characteristics of online climate communication, outlining, for example, that although (or because) many stakeholders participate online, this does not lead to robust scientific information or better debates.
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Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation
TL;DR: The results of a recent general population survey in Germany showed that climate change skepticism has not diffused widely in Germany, but that it correlates with less support of renewable energy sources.