Michelle Riedlinger's research while affiliated with Queensland University of Technology and other places

... Unlike typical altmetrics that focus on "first-order citations" (i.e., social media posts that link to research directly), second-order citations provide the opportunity to observe a common way for non-academic users to share research with friends or followers (Lemke et al., 2021). While the impact of these citations is not yet fully understood, it is evident that news stories mentioning research have the potential to reach users who would not otherwise engage with research on social media, amplifying academic knowledge to broad audiences (Fleerackers, Riedlinger, et al., 2022). This study seeks to investigate the impact of these second-order citations through an analysis of tweets and Facebook posts linking the original research articles as well as news stories about the article. ...

... blogs, websites-that allow societal actors to share and discuss research, its epistemic features-e.g. research topics, disciplines, schools of thought, etc.-and types of engagement with research objects-e.g. access, appraisal, and application (Alperin et al., 2023;Costas et al., 2020;Haustein et al., 2016). ...

... Centralized decision-making during the pandemic, primarily led by select scientists (pandem-icons) who self-appointed as the sole voices of reason, resulted in a narrow, reductionist approach. This approach neglected critical factors, such as economic and social impacts, ultimately leading to suboptimal outcomes (80). The absence of multidisciplinary advisory panels perpetuated these limitations at considerable costs (30,81). ...

... In this sense, CS offers great potential for science communication, because in CS projects research and communication are not separate processes, but closely intertwined (Wagenknecht et al., 2021). Through interactions between scientists and citizens, the target audience essentially becomes involved in the communication process itself (Giardullo et al., 2023), thus moving communication beyond mere dissemination of project results (Gascoigne et al., 2022). ...

... Although nearly 45% of online science communicators boast over 10 years of experience, more than 25% admit that they have no formal training in science journalism or communication. Their numbers of followers are also relatively low: 85% have 5000 followers or fewer, and 40% have between 1000 and 5000 (Schiele and Riedlinger 2018). ...

... articles have played and will increasingly play in their work, with concerns expressed about journalists' need for 'bespoke digital support' (Fleerackers et al., 2021;Maiden et al., 2020); ...

... Recent works have investigated how some practices of these professionals have been shaped in the context of the pandemic. These include dealing with the growing use of pre-print data in media outlets (Fleerackers et al., 2021(Fleerackers et al., , 2022Fraser et al., 2021), the increasing coverage of science topics in the media and their impact on the cultural authority of science and scientists (Metcalfe et al., 2020), the intense workload and associated anxiety and stress problems reported by journalists (Massarani et al., 2021), the stress and pessimism associated to the pressure to publish reported by academic researchers (Suart et al., 2022), or a shift in the selection of sources in the news coverage of COVID-19 (Catalan-Matamoros and Elías, 2020;Leidecker-Sandmann et al., 2022). However, how the relationship between scientists and journalists was impacted by the pandemic has received less attention. ...

... There are key interactions between the social worlds of science and activism. Movements use scientific resources, especially the IPCC, in their discourse to justify their positions, to portray science as an enlightener and provider of (political) solutions, and position themselves as science communicators (Faehnrich et al., 2020;Rödder and Pavenstädt, 2022). Scientists are increasingly visible as supporters and mobilized during the recent wave of climate activism (Hagedorn et al., 2019). ...

... The importance of creating writing tasks that are not just imitating writing for a public audience but make the students taking part in real debates is important, not just because the students perform better, but also because they become engaged citizens and develop their individual voices (Carlo 2020). Genre as "markers of identification" is discussed in a recent article in Text & Talk (Makmillen and Riedlinger 2021), and the authors point to the fact that writing in different genres makes the students play out identity and agency, including the playing out of the "we as" a certain profession (2021: 175). Writing as a "method for thinking" is well established in the epistemic culture of sakprosa (Brinch Jørgensen 2020; Johansen 2012), and reflexivity has long been seen as a central part of the practice in the writing pedagogies (Moon 1999). ...

... This essay narrates the development and practice of our collaborative work, with an eye towards analyzing the 'messiness' that characterized its multiple scholar-practice domains -namely, science communication [Metcalfe, 2022], science education [Clark, Brody, Dillon, Hart & Heimlich, 2007], and STS [Law, 2015]. 4 Riedlinger et al. [2019] have suggested that "where collaborating can create and validate stronger stories in the public domain," doing so creates opportunities for "effective and ethical use of storytelling in science communication" (p. 4) as well as increases the likelihood that research results will be taken up by practitioners. ...