De- and restabilization of evidence during the corona crisis

该项目旨在调查在电晕危机的条件下，COVID-19科学证据的生产、传播和社会协商是如何发生的。COVID-19的快速传播以及相关的行动和决策压力增加了对可信赖的科学知识的需求：然而，持不同意见的专家，对数字、统计数据和建议的反复调整，以及对不同意见和冲突的密集调解，同时也助长了对授权证据来源的怀疑。在此背景下，这个跨学科的项目旨在研究日冕危机中科学证据的去稳定和重新稳定。我们调查了四个核心领域，其中关于COVID-19的证据正在谈判（科学研究，医疗实践，科学新闻和社交媒体），从而结合了四个研究领域的专业知识（科学和技术研究（STS），医学伦理学，传播科学和社会学）。这使我们能够研究这些领域中的证据动态，最重要的是，它们在证据的去稳定和不稳定中的相互作用。此外，将该项目纳入DFG研究小组“实践证据-证据实践”，使我们能够调查电晕危机期间证据的生产，交流和社会谈判的新颖之处，以及是否以及如何与当代知识社会中有关证据的其他冲突建立连续性。

The project aims to investigate how the production, communication and social negotiation of scientific evidence about COVID-19 takes place under the conditions of the corona crisis. The rapid spread of COVID-19 and the associated pressure to act and make decisions increase the need for trustworthy scientific knowledge: however, dissenting experts, the repeated adjustment of figures, statistics and recommendations, and the intensive medialization of divergent opinions and conflict foster, at the same, skepticism towards authorized sources of evidence. Against this background, this interdiscipli-nary project aims to investigate the de- and restabilization of scientific evidence in the corona crisis. We investigate four central arenas where evidence about COVID-19 is being negotiated (scientific research, medical practice, science journalism, and social media), thereby combining the expertise of four research fields (science & technology studies (STS), medical ethics, communication science, and sociology). This allows us to examine the evidence dynamics in these arenas and, most importantly, their interactions in the de- and destabilization of evidence. Furthermore, the integration of the project into the DFG Research Group "Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice" allows us to investigate what might be novel about the production, communication and social negotiation of evidence during the corona crisis and whether and how continuities with other conflicts about evidence in contempo-rary knowledge societies can be established.