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Department of Communication and Media Research Science Communication

Projects

Our research is funded by national and international research funders such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Union (EU), by public authorities such as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG), the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and by foundations such as the Gebert Rüf Foundation and the Foundation Mercator Schweiz.

We also cooperate with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Google Deep Mind, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

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Funding

Project title

Sum

2025-2028 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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770,148 CHF
2024-2027 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Alternative Media, Alternative Norms? Link to project 470,000 CHF
2024-2025 Digitization Initiative of Zurich Universities (DIZH)

Digitale Resilienz: Tool für KI- und Deepfake-Kompetenz bei Jugendlichen

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75,000 CHF
2024 WHO Regional Office for Europe

Assessing the impact of AI on public health emergency communication in Europe and Central Asia: A Delphi study

10,000 USD
2024-2025 Digitization Initiative of Zurich Universities (DIZH)

SciComm meets Comedy

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40,000 CHF
2024 Swiss Young Academy

AI in Science and Society

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4,460 CHF
2023-2024 Swiss Young Academy

Science vs Activism? Exploring the Boundary

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47,930 CHF
2022-2025 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research Evaluation of CERN’s communication activities with respect to different audience types 144,000 CHF
2022-2023 Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

The Effect of Disinformation on Opinion Formation: Experimental Analyses of the Effect and Role of Different Influencing Factors in a Multi-Method Design

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77,000 CHF
2022-2024 Collaborators’ own funds

Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism: A Many Labs Study

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ca. 140,000 USD
2022 EUPRIO, SNSF & IKMZ

A Cross-national Survey of Communicators at Higher Education Institutions across Europe

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2,500 CHF and own funds
2022 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Young Academy

Misinformation and conspiracy theories in online environments. A Delphi study to assess current challenges, problematic developments, and future recommendations

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Own funds
2022 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Assessing the impact of Agora-funded projects over the past 10 years: A content analysis of the impact of scientists’ public communication

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24,822 CHF
2022 Digital Society Initiative (DSI)

The DSI Information Abundance Project: Studying the Concept, Conditions & Consequences of Information Abundance

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32,231 CHF
2021-2024 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Science Foundation (DFG)

Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US 

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633,637 CHF
2020-2023 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Science-related conspiracy theories online: Mapping their characteristics, prevalence and distribution internationally and developing contextualized counter-strategies

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249,923 CHF
2021-2022 Swiss Federal Office of Communication

Disinformation on COVID-19 vaccination on YouTube: An analysis of content, impact, and subsequent verification processes via online search 

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49,965 CHF
2021-2022

Swiss Young Academy

What can we learn from COVID-19 fake news about the spread of scientific misinformation in general?

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63,000 CHF

2020-2021 Participatory Science Academy, Stiftung Mercator Schweiz

Assessing the Potential of Citizen Science in Switzerland

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70,000 CHF
2020 Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

Wissenschaftsbarometer, COVID19 edition

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23,700 CHF

2019-2023

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Status Quo and Development of Public Communication Efforts of Swiss Institutions of Higher Education 

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579,924 CHF

2019-2022

European Union, Horizon 2020, Marie Curie Fellowship

Fakeology – Fake news and pseudo-science as post-modern mythology: The case of the anti-vaccination movement

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278,840 EUR

2019-2020

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (DGOF)

Debunking health myths online

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2,225.75 EUR
2025-2031 Gebert Rüf Foundation, University of Zurich, ETH Board, Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

Science Barometer Switzerland (2025-2031)

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375,000 CHF
2016-2024

Gebert Rüf Foundation, Foundation Mercator Schweiz, IKMZ

Science Barometer Switzerland (2016-2024)

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314,000 CHF

2014-2022

UZH

CHESS - Center for Higher Education and Science Studies

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570,000 CHF

2019-2021

Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office

How Can Scientific Facts Be Communicated Efficiently?

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379,903 CHF

2017-2019

UZH Forschungs­kredit “Candoc”

Scientific Online Literacy. Concept Development and Application

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110,000 CHF

2019

UZH Graduate Campus

Management of the Peer-Mentoring Group "MFG - MedienforscherInnengruppe" 

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4,580 CHF

2017-2019

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Scientific Exchanges Scheme

Voicing Terrorism

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6,000 CHF

2017-2020

UZH, CHESS

APiKS – Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society

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Own funds

2017-2019

Stiftung Mercator Schweiz

Audience Segmentation in Switzerland: An In-Depth Analysis Following up the Science Barometer Switzerland

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72,000 CHF

2018

UZH & Free University of Berlin Joint Seed Funding

Social Bots in the Networked Public Sphere

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3,000 EUR

2018

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Gebert Rüf Foundation, UZH

Crowdfunding Science Festival

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27,000 CHF

2017-2018

CREST: Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, University of Stellenbosch

Climate Change Perceptions Among South African Publics

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12,000 CHF

2015-2018

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Transnational Political Public Spheres? The Example of Climate Politics

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284,991 CHF

2015-2016

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

Climate Change Communication Online: Comparing Established and New Platforms in Six Countries

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Own funds

2016

UZH Communication Team

Readership Survey: UZH Communication

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15,000 CHF

2014-2015

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP”, IKMZ

Perception of Climate Change Visuals. A Q-Study in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

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8,000 EUR

2012

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP

Opinion Leaders Online

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20,000 EUR

2012

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP”

Mediatization of Climate Science

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21,000 EUR

2011

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP”

Climate Change, Energy Preferences, Political Participation

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101,000 EUR

2011

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP”

Global Media Map on Climate Change

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18,000 EUR

2009-2012

German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotions”

Comparing Western and Arab TV Presentations of Terrorism

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160,000 EUR