what's new
february 1, 2010: Online-first version of new article with Amy Becker et. al. in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, exploring predictors of citizen participation in political controversies about science.
january 12, 2010: New column in The Scientist with Elizabeth Corley at ASU, showing widening gaps in public understanding of nanotechnology among different groups of the U.S. public.
january 8, 2010: New chapter with Bertram T. Scheufele on the mechamisms behind framing, in Doing news framing analysis: Empirical and theoretical perspectives.
october, 28, 2009: Talk on emerging challenges at the intersection of science, communication, and society at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
october 9, 2009: New article with Elizabeth Corley and Qian Hu on leading U.S. nano-scientists' policy stances about nanotechnology in Journal of Nanoparticle Research (10.1007/s11051-009-9671-5).
october 7, 2009: Release of new survey results (with Bret Shaw) tapping partisan divides in attitudes toward biofuels in Wisconsin.
october 2, 2009: Talk on 'human" science at the 2009 "What is Human?" conference, Center for Humanities, UW-Madison.
september 16, 2009: Keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.
(Listen to an mp3 recording of the keynote talk here.)
September 4, 2009: Online-first version of article with Matthew C. Nisbet on state-of-the-art research and practices in science communication in American Journal of Botany (10.3732/ajb.0900041).
august 4, 2009: New column in The Scientist with colleagues from Wisconsin, Arizona State, and Jülich, arguing that the rifts between scientists and lay publics may not be as deep as some recent surveys suggest.
june 12, 2009: Talk at ESF seminar on Quality and Comparability of Measures for Constructs in Comparative Research: Methods and Applications, Bolzano, Italy.
april 28, 2009: New article with Andy Binder, Kajsa Dalrymple, and Dominique Brossard in Communication Research on the impact of campaign talk on attitude extremity (10.1177/0093650209333023v1).
april 12, 2009: New article with Amy Becker in the International Journal of Press/Politics on public attitudes toward gay marriage during presidential campaigns.
march 9, 2009: Congressional briefing, Nanotechnology and the public: new data for decision makers, U.S. Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus, Washington, DC.
february 19, 2009: Talk at the 2nd Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy, Food and Drug Law Institute, Washington, DC.
january 25, 2009:
Chapter on framing theory with David Tewksbury in the new third edition of Media Effects.
january 22, 2009:
New article with Bruce Hardy in Communication Theory on the moderating role of political discussion during election campaigns.
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recent publications
and columns

Corley, E. A., & Scheufele, D. A. (2010). Outreach gone wrong? When we talk nano to the public, we are leaving behind key audiences. The Scientist, 24(1), p. 22.
Scheufele, B. T., & Scheufele, D. A. (2010). Of spreading activation, applicability, and schemas: Conceptual distinctions and their operational implications for measuring frames and framing effects. In P. D’Angelo & J. A. Kuypers (Eds.), Doing news framing analysis: Empirical and theoretical perspectives (pp. 110-134). New York: Routledge.
Jeffres , L., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). What is the field of communication? Seeking answers from a survey of scholars … and – more importantly – from Klaus Schönbach. In C. Holtz-Bacha, G. Reus, & L. B. Becker (Eds.), Wissenschaft mit Wirkung [Research with impact] (pp. 73-84). Wiesbaden (Germany): Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Nisbet, M. C., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions. American Journal of Botany, 96(10), 1767-1778. (doi:10.3732/ajb.0900041)
Corley, E. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Hu, Q. (2009). Of risks and regulations: how leading US nanoscientists form policy stances about nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 11(7), 1573-1585. (doi:10.1007/s11051-009-9671‑5)
Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A., Kim, E., & Lewenstein, B. V. (2009). Religiosity as a perceptual filter: Examining processes of opinion formation about nanotechnology. Public Understanding of Science, 18(5), 546–558. (doi:10.1177/0963662507087304)
Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Dunwoody, S., Corley, E. A., Guston, D. H., & Peters, H. P. (2009, August 4). Are scientists really out of touch? The Scientist.
Binder, A. R., Dalrymple, K. E., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). The soul of a polarized democracy: Talk, media, and attitude extremity during the 2004 presidential election. Communication Research, 36(3), 315-340. (doi:10.1177/0093650209333023v1)
Becker, A. B. and D. A. Scheufele (2009). Moral politicking: Public attitudes toward gay marriage in an election context. International Journal of Press/Politics 14(2), 186-211. (doi:10.1177/1940161208330905)

Scheufele, D. A., Corley, E. A., Shih, T., Dalrymple, K. E., & Ho, S. S. (2009). Religious beliefs and public attitudes to nanotechnology in Europe and the US. Nature Nanotechnology, 4(2), 91 - 94. (doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.361)

Tewksbury, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). News framing theory and research. In J. Bryant & M. B. Oliver (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research(3rd ed., pp. 17-33). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Hardy, B., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). Presidential campaign dynamics and the ebb and flow of talk as a moderator: Media exposure, knowledge of candidate issue stances, and political discussion. Communication Theory, 19(1), 89–101. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.01334.x)
Becker, A. B., & Scheufele, D. A. (2008). Public perceptions of the use of steroids in sport: Contextualizing communication efforts. International Journal of Sport Communication, 1(4), 444-457.
Ho, S. S., Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2008). Effects of value predispositions, mass media use, and knowledge on public attitudes toward embryonic stem cell research. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(2), 171-192.
Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2008). Nanotechnology as a moral issue? Religion and science in the U.S. [Cover article]. AAAS Professional Ethics Report, 21(1), 1-3.

Scheufele, D. A., & Corley, E. A. (2008). The science and ethics of good communication. Next Generation Pharmaceutical, 4(1), 66.
Scheufele, D. A. (2008). Framing theory. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (pp. 1862-1868). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Scheufele, D. A. (2008). Media content and social networks. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (2836-2838). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
select talks, lectures
and interviews
UW Policy Forum on Communicating Controversial Science – Talk on The Politics of Communicating Science– Madison, WI – July 2009
(Watch the webcast here)
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab (WAA) - Talk on Public opinion and media dynamics surrounding nanotechnology – Madison, WI – March 2009.

(Watch a recording of the webcast here)
Wisconsin Public Radio, Conversations with Joy Cardin - One-hour interview on Advertising in the 2008 Campaign - September 2008
(Listen to the MP3 recording here)
Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB - Talk on Public opinion and media dynamics surrounding emerging technologies – Santa Barbara, CA – February 2008.

(Listen to the podcast on CNS-UCSB on iTunes)
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