All Outputs (10)

Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change (2022)
Book

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

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.

The rightful place of expertise (2018)
Journal Article

Expertise has come under attack not least since the Brexit vote in the UK and Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States. In this contribution, I will provide some conceptual clarification and suggest a new topology of expertise. I wil... Read More about The rightful place of expertise.

Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Knowledge politics (2018)
Other

The discourse of austerity in the British press (2018)
Book Chapter

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

Beyond counting climate consensus (2017)
Journal Article

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

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

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.