The work in the research area Science - Mass Media - Public at Bielefeld University's Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) addresses sociological and historical questions such as:
How are different scientific topics (e.g. climate research or biomedicine) presented in the mass media and communicated to different publics?
In what ways do public discussions on scientific topics feed back into science?
How have relations between science and the general public developed historically, and what do they look like now?
Our research on science, mass media and the public currently includes the following projects and working groups: