#FSCC21 Lightning Talk Session: Science Communication in Times of Crisis

Lightning Talk Session "Science Communication in Times of Crisis" at the Future of Science Communication Conference.

Five lightning talks on a research topic or science communication project, each talk followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

0:12 Past Lessons for Future Practice? Insights from the History of Medicine and Mediated Science
Dr. Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg)

15:05 Vaccine Hesistancy Communication during a Global Pandemic: a Case Study of Vaccination Hesistant Facebook Pages during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Samantha Fowler (Laurentian University)

31:39 Trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic: A segmentation of online users in South Africa
Anne Reif (TU Braunschweig)
Dr. Lars Guenther (University of Hamburg/Stellenbosch University)

47:19 Reliable foresight knowledge to improve science communication in pandemic times? Exploring the potential of machine learning tools for assessing forward-looking statements in public media
Dana Wasserbacher (Austrian Institute of Technology)
Jan Rörden (Fraunhofer ISI)

1:02:22 The Story of a civic sentinel
Dr. Anna Berti Suman (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society - The European Commission JRC)

Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organisation for science communication in Germany, and ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, organised the digital conference from 24 - 25 June 2021. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and research, the two-day conference brought together international actors from research and practice of science communication and provided an impetus for stronger networking and transfer between the Science of Science Communication and practitioner communities.