Purpose This conceptual paper aims to provide a further understanding of the impact of
economic policy uncertainty (EPU), news framing and information overload on panic buying …

Researchers from a wide range of disciplines have joined forces at the Cluster of Excellence
CLICCS (Climate, Climatic Change, and Society) to investigate how climate and society will …

One critical lesson learned from public opinion research about climate change is that the
cost of politicization is disastrous. Although the literature has shown the dire consequences …

G20 countries, account for the majority of global carbon emissions, need to take the lead in
mitigating climate change. However, there are differences in economic, political and …

In their calls for an exploration of the ongoing changes of the science-society nexus, the
guest editors of this special issue refer to the tremendous impact that digital transformation …

Mass media plays an important role in the construction and circulation of risk perception
associated with animals. Widely feared groups such as spiders frequently end up in the …

In 2013, the American public ranked climate change at the very bottom of 21 policy issues
that they believed the President and Congress should deal with; another poll found that …

This study integrates agenda setting and framing theory to explore the transmission of
climate change frames between newspapers and Twitter in the US and the UK. A set of …

Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the factors that predict trust/distrust in
science. However, most of these studies are based on closed-ended survey research, which …

This study aims to make a synthetic theoretical presentation of the main challenges currently
noticeable in the evolution of the mass media and social media in the context of the …