Research at the Division Public Communication
Ongoing Working Groups
Working Group Social Resilience
Social resilience is a dynamic field of study that examines the ability of individuals, communities and societies to withstand and recover from various challenges and adversities, and to cope, adapt and transform social structures to better cope with future disturbances.
A particular form of 'threat' has emerged as climate change, pandemics, resource depletion, biodiversity loss or antibiotic resistance become chronic, overwhelming grand challenges for humanity: Threats that require some involvement of science in their definition and resolution, and that are highly contested among societal actors. Our group is dedicated to exploring resilience in such "socio-scientific dilemmas".
The working group, founded in 2022, consists of multidisciplinary researchers from 11 disciplines (communication science, computer science, economics, geography education, history, human geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology and theology) who offer their perspectives to conceptualise and investigate social resilience in socio-scientific dilemmas.
Ongoing Projects
DFG-Project: Alternative Media - Alternative Publics - Alternative Realities? (2021-2024)
Principal Investigator: Christian Schwarzenegger
Project Manager: Katharina Schöppl
Project duration: 2021-2024, DFG-Sachbeihilfe Gz: SCHW 1734/1-1
De- and Restabilization of Evidence in the Corona Crisis (2021-2024)
Principal Investigators (Augsburg): Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic & Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock
Project Manager: Markus Schug
Project Duration: 2021-2024
Funding: Part of the DFG-Research Unit 2448 "Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice"
Effects of narrative evidence in science news coverage of genomic research (2020-2025)
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic & Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock
Project managers: Janine Blessing
Project duration: 2020-2025
Funding: Part of the DFG-Research Unit “Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice in Science, Medicine Technology and Society“
Digital Stress in the Media (2019-2023)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock
Project Manager: Hanna-Sophie Rueß
Project Duration: 2019-2023
Funding: The Bavarian Research Association ForDigitHealth
Narrative as a mode of evidence in public discourse about genetic research (2017-2020)
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock & Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic
Project Manager: Magdalena Klingler
Project Duration: 2017-2020
Funding: Part of the DFG-Research Unit “Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice in Science, Medicine Technology and Society“