Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte 
Chair of the Department of Media Psychology
Since March 2013, Sabine Trepte has been a full professor at the University of Hohenheim and holds the chair for Media Psychology. From 2006 until 2012, she worked as an assistant professor at the Hamburg Media School and the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 1997, she received her diploma in psychology in Cologne. She has also completed study programs in Gießen and New York. In 2001, she received her doctorate degree at the school of Journalism and Communication Science of the renowned University of Music, Theatre and the Media in Hannover. In 2002, she received a post-doc-scholarship for studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, C.A. (USA). There she conducted studies investigating international and cultural comparative media use.
Sabine Trepte has published various articles in internationally renowned journals such as Media Psychology, Journal of Media Psychology, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Publizistik and Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. She has won several prizes and awards for her work (ICA Best Paper Award, ICA Dissertation Award).
Her main research in the field of media psychology focuses on privacy and self-disclosure in the social web, psychological processes of knowledge acquisition with political news media, and social identity processes.
Sabine Trepte has served as a Co-Editor for Media Psychology and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) from 2016-2021. She shared some notes about her experiences as a Co-Editor of Media Psychology here. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Media Psychology (JMP), the Journal of Communication (JoC) as well as the journals Media Psychology (MP) and Social Media and Society (SMS).
Contact
Consultation hours: on Wednesday 10-11 o'clock, registration via e-mail
Selected media contributions
- FAZ (2024): In den Fängen des Feeds
- Dein Spiegel (2024): "Wenn es einem nicht gut geht, sollte man besser auf TikTok verzichten"
- FAZ (2023): Crash of social networks
- Tagesspiegel (2023): TikTok Therapy
- Wissen Weekly (2022): LGBTQI+ Repräsentation
- NDR-Info (2022): Instagram und anorexia
- F.A.Z. Podcast (2021): Weg von WhatsApp? Warum der Wechsel so schwer ist
- Deutschlandfunk Nova (2020): Änderung der Nutzungsbedingungen bei WhatsApp
- F.A.S. (2020): "Ihr seid so krass" - Wie Jugendliche sich in „Happy Slapping“-Videos mit Straftaten brüsten
- Deutsche Welle (2019): Medienkompetenz - "Das Problem ist nicht Facebook"
- Forschung & Lehre (2018): Soziale Medien verändern uns
- Deutschlandfunk Kultur (2018): BGH-Urteil - Eltern bekommen Zugriff auf Facebook-Konto ihrer toten Tochter
- W&V (2018): "Aggressives Targeting ist eine offene Flanke für Marken".
- Zeit Campus (2016): Beat the Prof - Wer hat die größte Angst vor Datenklau?
- Stuttgarter Zeitung (2014): Der Vorteil der kleinen Geheimnisse
- New York Times (2014): We Want Privacy, but Can't Stop Sharing
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (2012): Wo ist die Party? Hier ist die Party
Publications
- Full list of publications: List of publications
- Profile on Research Gate
- Publications on Google Scholar
Current Research projects
- Privacy & Microtargeting (German Research Foundation)
- Citation Diversity (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
- Projects on ORCiD
Former Research projects
- Privacy Transformations (Volkswagenstiftung)
- The Evolution of Privacy (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
- Perspectives and Trends of Privacy (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
- National Identity and Political Knowledge (German National Exchange Service)
- Socialization in the Social Web - A Longitudinal study (DFG, German Research Foundation)
- Young Scholars' Network on Privacy and the Web 2.0 (DFG, German Research Foundation)
- Avatars in Computer Games