Peer-reviewed journal articles
Wirz, C.D., Brossard, D., Curtis, K., Block, P. (2022). The risk of relocation: Risk perceptions and communication surrounding the tradeoffs between floods and economic opportunities in Iquitos, Peru. The Journal of Risk Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2022.2077413
Wirz, C. D., Cate, A., Brauer, M., Brossard, D., Brown, L. D., Chen, K., Ho, P., Luter, D. G., Madden, H., Schoenborn, S., Shaw, B., Sprinkel, C., Stanley, D., & Sumi, G. (2022). Science communication during COVID-19: When theory meets best practices and best practices meet reality. Journal of Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21030801
Bao, L., Krause, N. M., Calice, M. N., Scheufele, D. A., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., Newman, T. P., & Xenos, M. A. (2022). Whose AI? How different publics think about AI and its social impacts. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211034159
Wirz, C. D., Shao, A., Bao, L., Howell, E. L., Monroe, H., & Chen, K. (2021). Media Systems and Attention Cycles: Volume and Topics of News Coverage on COVID-19 in the United States and China: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990211049455
Wirz, C. D., Mayorga, M., & Johnson, B. B. (2021). Evaluating the Effects of News-following, Volume and Content of News Coverage on Americans’ Risk Perceptions during the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak. Journal of Health Communication, 26(5), 328–338. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.1927257
Howell, E. L., Wirz, C. D., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Xenos, M. A. (2020). Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism. Public Understanding of Science , 29(8), 800–818. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520962741
Chen, K., Bao, L., Shao, A., Ho, P., Yang, S., Wirz, C., Brossard, D., Brauer, M., & Diprete Brown, L. (2020). How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical time period: communication lessons learnt from the American state of Wisconsin. Journal of Science Communication, 19(05), A11. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19050211
Wirz, C. D., Howell, E. L., Brossard, D., Xenos, M. A., & Scheufele, D. A. (2020). The state of GMOs on social media: An analysis of state-level variables and discourse on Twitter in the United States. Politics and the Life Sciences, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2020.15
Wirz, C. D., Mayorga, M., & Johnson, B. B. (2020). A longitudinal analysis of Americans’ media sources, risk perceptions, and judged need for action during the Zika Outbreak. Health Communication, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1773707
Howell, E. L., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2019). Seeing through risk-colored glasses: Risk and benefit perceptions, knowledge, and the politics of fracking in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 55, 168-178. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.05.020
Brossard, D., Belluck, P., Gould, F., & Wirz, C. D. (2019). Promises and perils of gene drives: Navigating the communication of complex, post-normal science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(16). doi:10.1073/pnas.1805874115.
Akin, H., Yeo, S. K., Wirz, C. D., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M. A., & Corley, E. A. (2019). Are attitudes toward labeling nano products linked to attitudes toward GMO? Exploring a potential “spillover” effect for attitudes toward controversial technologies. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 6(1), 50-74. doi: 10.1080/23299460.2018.1495026
Wirz, C. D., Xenos, M. A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D., Chung, J. H., & Massarani, L. (2018). Rethinking social amplification of risk: Social media and Zika in three languages. Risk Analysis. 38(12), 2599-2624. doi:10.1111/risa.13228
Scott, S. E., Inbar, Y., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., & Rozin, P. (2018). An overview of attitudes to genetically engineered foods. Annual Review of Nutrition, 38(1), 459-479. doi:10.1146/annurev-nutr-071715-051223
Howell, E. L., Wirz, C. D., Brossard, D., Jamieson, K. H., Scheufele, D. A., Winneg, K. M., & Xenos, M. A. (2018). National Academy of Sciences report on genetically engineered crops influences public discourse. Politics and the Life Sciences. 37(2), 250-261. doi: 10.1017/pls.2018.12
Su, L. Y.-F., Xenos, M. A., Rose, K. M., Wirz, C., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2018). Uncivil and personal? Comparing patterns of incivility in comments on the Facebook pages of news outlets. New Media & Society. doi: 10.1177/1461444818757205
Other scholarly works
Wirz, C. D. & Brossard, D. (Forthcoming). An introduction to misinformation and environmental communication. In The Routledge handbook of environment and communication (Second edition). Routledge.
Wirz, C. D., Scheufele, D. A., & Brossard, D. (2020). Societal debates about emerging genetic technologies: Toward a science of public engagement. Environmental Communication, 14(7), 859-864. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1811478
Krause, N., Wirz, C. D., Scheufele, D. A., & Xenos, M. A. (2019). Fake real news and real fake news: Clarifying a not-so-new phenomenon. In J. E. Katz (Ed.), Social Media and Journalism's Search for the Truth. Oxford University Press.
