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Social Media Privacy Model [06.09.2020]
Published in Communication Theory: After many years of empirical work, Prof. Trepte developed the theoretical model and a definition of privacy in social media...more
Longitudinal investigation of self-disclosure on social support in face-to-face and instant messenger communication [05.12.2017]
Sabine Trepte, Philipp Masur and Michael Scharkow recently published a study on "Mutual friends’ social support and self-disclosure in face-to-face and instant messenger communication" in The Journal of Social Psychology.more
The Online Privacy Literacy Scale (OPLIS) is now available! [28.06.2017]
The Online Privacy Literacy Scale (OPLIS) can be used to study users' knowledge with regard to different aspects of data protection and privacy in online environments. It handles online privacy literacy as a combination of factual or declarative ("knowing that") and procedural ("knowing how") knowledge about online privacy and data protection.more
Sabine Trepte serves as the new Co-Editor of Media Psychology. [06.04.2017]
Francesca Dillman-Carpentier, Amy Nathanson and Sabine Trepte want to continue forward on the path their predecessors have laid for the journal. Standing on the shoulders of these giants who have shepherded the journal and the field, the new editors are dedicated to reaching new heights and pushing new boundaries in the pursuit of knowledge at the intersection of media and...more
The Effects of Age on Political Knowledge Acquisition [27.02.2017]
Sabine Trepte and Josephine Schmitt recently published "The Effects of Age on the Interplay Between News Exposure, Political Discussion, and Political Knowledge" in the Journal of Individual Differences.more
“Privacy by Disaster?“ published in the Journal of European Communication [20.02.2017]
Thilo von Pape, Sabine Trepte, and Conelia Mothes published their article “Privacy by disaster? Press coverage of privacy and digital technology” in the Journal of European Communication. The results of their content analysis show that it is not necessarily disasters that give coverage a new orientation.more
Facebook Use in China, the US and Europe: How do people from different countries decide over their privacy? [13.02.2017]
In their new article, Sabine Trepte, Leonard Reinecke, Nicole B. Ellison, Oliver Quiring, Mike Z. Yao und Marc Ziegele shed light on the influence of cultural factors on the privacy calculus.more