Debates around climate change are a prominent example of polarized online
communication. We examine the German climate hyperlink network and evaluate the …

Most efforts at explaining major policy transformation apply a single lens to study specific
cases. Recent contributions have called for a more plural use of theories to facilitate the …

This thematic issue presents the outcome of the 2015 ECREA Communication and
Democracy Section Conference “Political Agency in the Digital Age” that was held at the …

The rapid transition of livestock husbandry in the 20th century involved a broad adoption of
slurry-based livestock housing systems that resulted in farm economic benefits, but also in …

The paper is focused on energy transition and stakeholders' discourses about it in three
Austrian Climate and Energy Model Regions (Baden, Ebreichsdorf, and Freistadt). The …

The transition to sustainable energy creates injustices, such as job losses in the fossil fuel
sector. Not addressing the problems of those hit by transitional injustices increases the …

Driven by digitalization (and particularly the advent of the Internet), science communication
nowadays includes more and different types of actors who produce and consume a wide …

Zusammenfassung Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Erfassung der Relevanz von
Gesellschaftstheorien für das Forschungsfeld der Wissenschaftskommunikation. Dafür wird …

Previous work has shown that hyperlinks reflect actors' strategic choices; these dyadic
relationships depend on the actors' exogenous attributes (eg, homophily) and the network's …

While prior research was able to show a connection between a conservative political
ideology and climate change scepticism for the United States, this has not been the case for …