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Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change (2022)
Book
Grundmann, R. (2022). Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320227

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a m... Read More about Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change.

Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations (2021)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (2022). Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations. Journal of Risk Research, 25(3), 395-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2021.1894471

This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and Corpus Linguistics. These tools highlight the potential of getting intere... Read More about Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations.

Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence (2018)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (2018). Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 350(7), 435-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2018.07.008

Many observers and commentators have used the case of ozone science and politics as a role model for climate science and politics. Two crucial assumptions underpin this view: (1) that science drives policymaking, and (2) that a unified, international... Read More about Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence.

The discourse of austerity in the British press (2018)
Book Chapter
Grundmann, R., Kreischer, K., & Scott, M. (2018). The discourse of austerity in the British press. In R. Sturm, T. Griebel, & T. Winkelmann (Eds.), Austerity: a journey to an unknown territory: discourses, economics and politics. Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845281728-92

In this paper we analyse the discourse of austerity in British broadsheets. Theoretically, we combine insights from discourse analysis and political science. Methodologically, we present a novel procedure to build and analyse a robust corpus derived... Read More about The discourse of austerity in the British press.

A reply to Cook and Oreskes on climate science consensus messaging (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Grundmann, R., Hulme, M., Raman, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., & Tsouvalis, J. (in press). A reply to Cook and Oreskes on climate science consensus messaging. Environmental Communication, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1392109

Beyond counting climate consensus (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Grundmann, R., Hulme, M., Raman, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., & Tsouvalis, J. (2017). Beyond counting climate consensus. Environmental Communication, 11(6), 723-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1333965

Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science as an argument to foster climate policy. Recent efforts to communicate such scientific consensus attained a high public profile but it is doubtful if they can be regarded suc... Read More about Beyond counting climate consensus.

The problem of expertise in knowledge societies (2016)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (in press). The problem of expertise in knowledge societies. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-016-9308-7

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broade... Read More about The problem of expertise in knowledge societies.

Climate skepticism (2015)
Book Chapter
Grundmann, R. (2015). Climate skepticism. In K. Bäckstrand, & E. Lövbrand (Eds.), Research handbook on climate governance (175-188). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783470600.00025

This chapter examines the changing use and meaning of the term ‘skeptic’ in the US elite press. Based on an analysis of the New York Times, it appears that the meaning of the word skeptic changed from a synonym of legitimate critic to an illegitimate... Read More about Climate skepticism.