Commentary

Communicating science: trust and the new media ecology

Science communication and the issue of trust

Science communication, whether internally or to the general public depends on trust, both trust in the source and trust in the medium of …

Mediated trust in science: concept, measurement and perspectives for the `science of science communication'

Trust in science is, to a considerable extent, the outcome of communication. News and online media in particular are important mediators of trust …

Trust in technologies? Science after de-professionalization

Peter Weingart and Lars Guenther suggest that the public's trust in science has become endangered due to a new ecology of science communication. …

Misunderstanding trust in science: a critique of the traditional discourse on science communication

Peter Weingart and Lars Guenther have written a short but nevertheless comprehensive stock-taking of science communication and the issue of trust. I fully …