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Team Media Psychology at the 52nd DGPs Congress in Hildesheim [21.09.2022]
Privacy, anonymity, and inequality - With five contributions, the researchers from the Department of Media Psychology participated in the biennial Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). The congress took place in Hildesheim under the theme “View on/of Science” between the 12th and 15th of September.more
Podcast on Queer Representation in TV & Streaming [23.06.2022]
In the podcast "Wissen Weekly", Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte talks about the perspective of media psychology on the representation of the queer community in TV & streaming together with Lisa-Sophie Scheurell. The podcast episode is available on Spotify.more
International Communication Association Conference in Paris [07.06.2022]
Successful days come to an end - From May 26 to 30, the Media Psychology team attended the annual ICA conference. This year the conference theme was "One World, One Network?!".more
Project on Gender Diversity in Communication Science [21.05.2022]
Gender diversity and a fair representation of women in science are one of the most discussed issues in academia of our time. With our new research project “Gender Citation Diversity” we aim to contribute to this discussion by analyzing the current status of gender diversity in our field. more
Gender Theory in Online Privacy Research: New Study in the Journal of Media Psychology [04.05.2022]
Gender is included as a variable in many studies on online privacy – but how is the complex construct theoretically embedded? In a new article in the Journal of Media Psychology, we explore how gender is operationalised and discussed in more than 100 studies on online privacy. more
Privacy and Digitization: Chapter in the Handbook Digitization has been published [04.05.2022]
The Handbook Digitization, edited by Stefan Roth and Hans Corsten, offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and challenges of digitization in various economic sectors and functional areas. Regine Frener, Johanna Schäwel and Sabine Trepte were invited to write a chapter on privacy and digitization.more
Privacy 2.0 - Conference organized by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung [13.04.2022]
From April 6 to April 8, the team Media Psychology visited a conference of doctoral students organized by the Hans Böckler Foundation. The topic of the scientific conference was " Privacy 2.0 - interdisciplinary views on privacy in the digital age".more