News
“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
"Good News!" - new article published in the Journal of Media Psychology [14.09.2016]
Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte, Tobias Dienlin and Dr. Josephine Schmitt published their research on the reception of positively valenced news.more
Do privacy perception and privacy behavior vary across cultures? [05.07.2016]
Sabine Trepte and Philipp Masur published a research report on a multicultural survey study on privacy and self-disclosure.more
Individual privacy perceptions and user-directed privacy strategies [01.03.2016]
In a new study, published in the journal "Social Media + Society", Philipp Masur and Michael Scharkow investigated in how far users imply different disclosure management strategies in status updates and chat conversations.more
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
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