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The Department of Medienpsychology at the 65th annual conference of the International Communication Association [20.01.2015]
Eleven submissions of the Department of Media Psychology were accepted for the 65th annual conference of the International Communication Association in San Juan (Puerto Rico). Sabine Trepte is moreover reviewer and advisor for the Doctoral Consortium of Communication and Technology Division. more
[Translate to English:] Beitrag im ZDF: Ist ein Leben ohne Facebook möglich? [30.10.2025]
Die Sendung Volle Kanne berichtet über die Selbsterfahrung einer Studentin, die für zwei Wochen auf Facebook verzichtet. Philipp Masur erklärt, warum das oftmals sehr schwierig sein kann.more
Article published regarding media exposure, political discussion and political knowledge [08.01.2015]
In their latest publication, William P. Eveland, Jr. (Ohio State University) and Josephine B. Schmitt review problems in the political learning literature and suggest that communication content and knowledge content should be considered in studying news and discussion learning effects.more
New study on cyberbullying published [08.01.2015]
In recently published study, Ruth Festl and Michael Scharkow (University of Hohenheim) and Thorsten Quandt (University of Münster) examined potential predictors of cyberbullying envolvment. more
[Translate to English:] Dr. Thilo von Pape neuer Post-Doc am Lehrstuhl Medienpsychologie [30.10.2025]
Seit dem 01. Oktober 2014 verstärkt Dr. Thilo von Pape das Team um Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte und arbeitet als Post-Doc im BMBF-Projekt "Perspektiven und Trends der Privatheit".more
New study that explains the privacy paradox recently published [01.10.2014]
Are you concerned about your privacy, yet you keep on posting things on Facebook? If so you have experienced the so-called "privacy paradox" yourself. Tobias Dienlin and Sabine Trepte now analyzed the privacy paradox also scientifically in an empirical online study.more
Can Facebook use become compulsive? What factors promote addictive usage patterns? [15.08.2014]
Philipp Masur (University of Hohenheim), Leonard Reinecke, Marc Ziegele and Oliver Quiring (University of Mainz) published a study on social network site addiction in the journal "Computers in Human Behavior".more