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63
Citations
16593
World Ranking
1174
National Ranking
549

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dominique Brossard is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a particular emphasis on sociology and political science, communication, molecular biology, literature and literary theory, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include climate change communication and perception, misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, media influence and health, public relations and crisis communication, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and genetically modified organisms research.

Brossard has contributed to several notable publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, Journal of Science Communication, Journal of Risk Research, and New Media & Society.

Their recent papers are as follows:

  • Fact-checking as risk communication: the multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19 (2020), published in Journal of Risk Research
  • Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19 (2021), published in New Media & Society
  • (Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientists' incentives and attitudes toward public communication (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action (2021), published in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brossard include Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael A. Xenos, Luye Bao, Becca Beets, and Emily L. Howell.

Among their recognitions, Brossard was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Nasty Effect: Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies

    Ashley A. Anderson;Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele;Michael A. Xenos

  • Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a citizen science project

    Dominique Brossard;Bruce Lewenstein;Rick Bonney

  • Framing Science: The Stem Cell Controversy in an Age of Press/Politics

    Matthew C. Nisbet;Dominique Brossard;Adrianne Kroepsch

  • New media landscapes and the science information consumer.

    Dominique Brossard

  • Science, New Media, and the Public

    Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Are Issue-Cycles Culturally Constructed? A Comparison of French and American Coverage of Global Climate Change

    Dominique Brossard;James Shanahan;Katherine McComas

  • Social Structure and Citizenship: Examining the Impacts of Social Setting, Network Heterogeneity, and Informational Variables on Political Participation

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Matthew C. Nisbet;Dominique Brossard;Erik C. Nisbet

  • Knowledge, Reservations, or Promise?: A Media Effects Model for Public Perceptions of Science and Technology

    Matthew C. Nisbet;Dietram A. Scheufele;James Shanahan;Patricia Moy

  • Deference to Scientific Authority Among a Low Information Public: Understanding U.S. Opinion on Agricultural Biotechnology

    Dominique Brossard;Matthew C. Nisbet

  • Fact-checking as risk communication: the multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19

    Nicole M. Krause;Isabelle Freiling;Becca Beets;Dominique Brossard

  • Religiosity as a perceptual filter: examining processes of opinion formation about nanotechnology

    Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele;Eunkyung Kim;Bruce V. Lewenstein

  • Media Coverage of Public Health Epidemics: Linking Framing and Issue Attention Cycle Toward an Integrated Theory of Print News Coverage of Epidemics

    Tsung-Jen Shih;Rosalyna Wijaya;Dominique Brossard

  • Democracy Based on Difference: Examining the Links Between Structural Heterogeneity, Heterogeneity of Discussion Networks, and Democratic Citizenship

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Bruce W. Hardy;Dominique Brossard;Israel S. Waismel-Manor

  • Effects of Value Predispositions, Mass Media Use, and Knowledge on Public Attitudes Toward Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    Shirley S. Ho;Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Interactions with the mass media

    Hans Peter Peters;Dominique Brossard;Suzanne de Cheveigné;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Reporting a potential pandemic: A risk-related assessment of avian influenza coverage in U.S. newspapers

    Anthony David Dudo;Michael F. Dahlstrom;Dominique Brossard

  • Building Buzz: (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments

    Xuan Liang;Leona Yi-Fan Su;Sara K. Yeo;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Pathways to Political Participation? Religion, Communication Contexts, and Mass Media

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Matthew C. Nisbet;Dominique Brossard

  • Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19

    Isabelle Freiling;Nicole M Krause;Dietram A Scheufele;Dominique Brossard

  • Science on Television in the 21st Century: Recent Trends in Portrayals and Their Contributions to Public Attitudes Toward Science

    Anthony David Dudo;Dominique Brossard;James Shanahan;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Science-Media Interface It's Time to Reconsider

    Hans Peter Peters;Dominique Brossard;Suzanne de Cheveigné;Sharon Dunwoody

  • YouTube, Social Norms and Perceived Salience of Climate Change in the American Mind

    James T. Spartz;Leona Yi-Fan Su;Robert J. Griffin;Dominique Brossard

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietram A. Scheufele
Dietram A. Scheufele University of Wisconsin–Madison
James Shanahan
James Shanahan Indiana University
Sharon Dunwoody
Sharon Dunwoody University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matthew C. Nisbet
Matthew C. Nisbet Northeastern University
Bret R. Shaw
Bret R. Shaw University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fred Gould
Fred Gould North Carolina State University
Kevin V. Pixley
Kevin V. Pixley International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Timothy S. Griffin
Timothy S. Griffin University of Maine
David M. Stelly
David M. Stelly Texas A&M University
Richard M. Amasino
Richard M. Amasino University of Wisconsin–Madison

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