Mike S. Schafer

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Mike Steffen Schäfer (born June 7, 1976 in Meißen ) is a German communication scientist and sociologist . Since 2013 he has been a professor at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ), director of the Competence Center for University and Science Research (CHESS), President of the AGORA Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and member of the Advisory board of the journals Public Understanding of Science , Environmental Communication and JCOM - Journal of Science Communication as well as several national and international professional societies. Schäfer is also one of the editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication .

Life

Mike Schäfer grew up in a family that had no close ties to science. He went to school in his hometown and was initially interested in chemistry . When he was 13 years old, he saw the fall of the Berlin Wall , which would have a major impact on his further development.

After graduating from high school, Schäfer decided to study sociology and journalism / journalism at the University of Leipzig and Vienna as well as at the National University of Ireland in Cork. After his stay there, he adopted the Anglicized first name Mike and, according to the fashion of the time, added the abbreviated middle name.

After graduating, Schäfer was initially a project employee at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig, then a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin . There he was in 2007 with a thesis on mass media coverage of stem cell research, human genome research and particle physics doctorate . In 2004 and 2012, Schäfer worked in the USA , first at Harvard University and later at the University of Pennsylvania .

From 2010 to 2013 Schäfer held a junior professorship at the University of Hamburg and headed the research group Media Constructions of Climate Change in the Hamburg federal excellence cluster CliSAP . Since 2013 he has held the chair for science, crisis and risk communication at the Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich . In 2015 he was appointed Director of the Center for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS) at the University of Zurich, which deals with science research.

research

Schäfer's research deals with science and climate change communication as well as political and international communication. He is also committed to independent journalism.

Publications (selection)

  • Mike S. Schäfer, Silje Kristiansen, Heinz Bonfadelli (eds.): Science communication in transition . Cologne: Herbert von Halem. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86962-108-1 .
  • Mike S. Schäfer: Climate Change and the Media . In James D. Wright (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , 2nd edition, Vol 3. Oxford: Elsevier. 853-859., 2015.
  • Irene Neverla, Mike S. Schäfer (Ed.): The media climate. Questions and findings of communication science climate research . Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17752-6 .
  • Jürgen Gerhards, Mike S. Schäfer, Ishtar Al-Jabiri, Juliane Seifert: Terrorism on TV . Wiesbaden: Publishing house for social sciences. 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18162-2 .
  • Mike S. Schäfer: Sources, Characteristics and Effects of Mass Media Communication on Science. A Review of the Literature, Current Trends and Areas for Future Research . In Sociology Compass 2011 / 5-6. 399-412. (DOI 10.1111 / j.1751-9020.2011.00373.x).
  • Jochen Roose, Mike S. Schäfer, Thomas Schmidt-Lux (eds.): Fans . Wiesbaden: Publishing house for social sciences. 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16096-2 .
  • Mike S. Schäfer: From Public Understanding to Public Engagement: A Comparison of Mass Media Coverage on Different Science Issues . In Science Communication 30/4, 2009. 475-505. (DOI 10.1177 / 1075547008326943).
  • Mike S. Schäfer: Discourse coalitions in the media. A contribution to the theoretical and methodological connection between discourse analysis and public sociology [Discourse Coalitions in the Mass Media. On Theoretical and Empirical Connections between Discourse Analysis and a Sociology of the Public Sphere] . In Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology . 60/2, 2008, 367-397.
    (DOI 10.1007 / s11577-008-0020-y).
  • Mike S. Schäfer: Science in the media. The medialization of scientific topics . Wiesbaden: Springer, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (VS), 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15592-0 .
  • Jürgen Gerhards, Mike S. Schäfer: The creation of a public hegemony: Human genome research in the German and US American press . Wiesbaden: Publishing house for social sciences. 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14964-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nik Walter: Fighters for independent journalism on www.tagesanzeiger.ch, November 26, 2016; accessed on March 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ CHESS website: [1] Last accessed: January 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Mike S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Mike Steffen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7th 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen