The Trust Relationship between Science and Digitized Publics” (TruSDi)

The project “The Trust Relationship between Science and Digitized Publics” (TruSDi) investigates the trust relationship between science and digitized publics on the level of users, contents, and social structures in five research modules, using a mixed methods design. Panel surveys are combined with qualitative interviews, content analyses, and experiments with audiences.

The results will reveal dynamic changes in trust relationships and provide explanatory approaches, while treating trust as a multidimensional construct.

The project is funded for three years by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is a collaboration of researchers from Universität Hamburg, Technische Universität Braunschweig and Bielefeld University.

Project partners at Universität Hamburg

• Dr. Lars Guenther
• Justin T. Schröder, M.Sc.
• Janise Brück, B.A.

Project partners at Technische Universität Braunschweig

• Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken
• Dr. Anne Reif
• Evelyn Peter, B.A.

Project partner at Bielefeld University

• Prof. Dr. Peter Weingart