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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
"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