Program

Wednesday, 7.04.2021

09:00 – 12:00Preconference “Public Communication Science in Times of the Covid-19 Crisis” | Details (in German only)
10:30 – 12:00Meeting of the DGPuK Section Speakers and Executive Board
12:30 – 14:00Meeting of the DGPuK Section Speakers of Young Academics
13:00 – 13:30SGKM Section Meetings:
Media Policy Political Communication Organizational Communication Journalism Research
14:00 – 14:15Technical Instructions to the Conference Platform
14:15 – 14:30Opening & Welcome Address
14:30 – 15:30Parallel-Sessions Slot 1: Presentations & Panels | Details
S1-P1: Health communication
S1-P2: Journalism: Storytelling and emotions
S1-P3: Mediatization theory
S1-P4: PR and advertising
S1-W1: Governance of Online Platforms
15:30 – 16:00Networking Break
16:00 – 17:00Parallel-Sessions Slot 2: Presentations & Panels | Details
S2-P1: Media and adolescents
S2-P2: Persuasion and media psychology
S2-P3: Journalism: Influences and audience
S2-P4: Auditing algorithms
S2-D1: Together against hate
17:00 – 17:15Break
17:15 – 18:15Meeting of Young Academics
18:15 – 19:00Break
19:00 – 19:45Podium Discussion “Communication Science today”
Christiane Eilders, Jörg Matthes, Manuel Puppis, moderated by Ulrike Klinger
19:45 – 21:00Get Together

Thursday, 8.04.2021

10:00 – 10:30DGPuK Section Meetings Slot 1:
Media Reception and Effects Communicationand Media Ethics Media Economics Communication History PR and Organisational Communications Media Language – Media Discourse
10:30 – 10:45Break
10:45 – 11:15DGPuK Section Meetings Slot 2:
Science Communication Sociology of Media and Communication Media, Public Spheres, and Gender Media Sport and Sport Communication Advertising Communication Health Communication Communication and Politics
11:15 – 11:30Break
11:30 – 12:00DGPuK Section Meetings Slot 3:
Digital Communication Journalism Studies International and Intercultural Communication Visual Communication Methods Media Education
12:00 – 13:00Break
12:15 – 12:45DigiComm Young Academics Network Coffee
13:00 – 14:00Keynote by Dietram Scheufele
“New instruments, paradigms, and information ecologies: The (ongoing) growing pains of our discipline”
14:00 – 14:15Break
14:15 – 15:15Parallel-Sessions Slot 3: Presentations & Panels | Details
S3-P1: Science and climate communication
S3-P2: Migration and hate speech
S3-P3: News in transition
S3-P4: Social relationships and gender communication
S3-P5: Populism
14:15 – 15:15
Workshop DGPuK, ÖGK, SGKM, SFSIC
15:15 – 15:45DACH 21 Speeddating
15:45 – 16:45Parallel-Sessions Slot 4: Presentations & Panels | Details
S4-P1: Crisis communication and legitimacy
S4-P2: Political campaigns and actors
S4-P3: Activism and participation
S4-P4: The re-figuration of public communication
S4-D1: As the term, so the change
S4-W1: The online disinhibition effect revisited
16:45 – 18:00Break
18:00 – 21:00Conference Dinner

Friday, 9.04.2021

09:00 – 10:00Parallel-Sessions Slot 5: Presentations & Panels | Details
S5-P1: Information environments and selection
S5-P2: Methods
S5-P3: Communication and social environment
S5-P4: Network analysis of text
S5-P5: Media quality in times of change
10:00 – 10:30Networking Break
10:30 – 11:30Parallel-Sessions Slot 6: Presentations & Panels | Details
S6-P1: Public discourse
S6-P2: Digitalization and well-being
S6-P3: Disinformation and misinformation
S6-P4: New methods for new (and old) topics
S6-W1: Just behind or ahead? Platform strategies of public media
11:30 – 11:45Break
11:45 – 12:30Podium Discussion “Communication Science tomorrow”
Anne Bartsch, Edda Humprecht, Annie Waldherr, moderated by Hartmut Wessler
12:30 – 12:45Closing Remarks
12:45 – 13:00Break
13:00 – 14:00General Assembly SGKM & ÖGK
14:00 – 14:15Break
14:15 – 15:45General Assembly DGPuK

Wednesday, 7.04.2021 | 14:30 - 15:30

Parallel-Sessions Slot 1

S1-P1: Health communication

Chair: Constanze Rossmann

Debunking health myths on the internet: The persuasive effect of (visual) online communication 
Sabrina Heike Kessler, Eva Bachmann 

Personalized ads promoting sensitive health topics: Appreciated or condemned? 
Brigitte Naderer, Melanie Bößenecker 

Partisanship and trust in information about coronavirus from government and news media: Findings from a six-country survey 
Anne Schulz, Richard Fletcher 

Similarity, identification and a blog post about living with depression - An experiment on how to reduce (self-)stigmatization and increase prosocial intentions in university students
Freya Sukalla, Ina Krack, Daniel Seibert, Ludwig Paeth, Olga Frank, Ronja Preißler, Philip Matias Block

Social distancing in times of Corona: A longitudinal study on the role of (media) communication for social norms regarding social distancing behavior
Sophie Bruns, Jule Scheper


S1-P2: Journalism: Storytelling and emotions

Chair: Nina Springer

Emotional labor and emotional literacy in journalism using the example of dealing with incivil audience feedback
Manuel Menke, Christina Peter

Journalism as an affective institution – parajournalism’s challenges to its status
Débora Maria Moura Medeiros, Margreth Lünenborg

Production of multimedia stories in transition: From a prestige format of established media outlets to a general newsroom standard?
Rosanna Planer, Cornelia Wolf, Alexander Godulla

More emotional, more dramatic, more unique? - Journalistic use of exemplars as a means of emotionalization
Christina Peter, Manuel Menke

Future-oriented storytelling. A typology for a new genre in data journalism
Denise Fechner, Christian Pentzold


S1-P3: Mediatization theory

Chair: Johanna E. Möller

How viable is the media generation concept? Possibilities and limits of empirical research into the change of communication on the basis of media-generational comparisons
Andreas Hepp, Cindy Roitsch, Matthias Berg

The field-theoretical view: Media capital and media doxa as concepts in the analysis for mediatization
Lena Fölsche

Highly dynamic mediatization: Theoretical considerations on the mediatization boost during the Corona lockdown and beyond
Kathrin Friederike Müller

Dynamics and persistence in mediatization. A theoretical perspective on the change of media action - Using a study on the Corona situation as an example
Jutta Röser

Communicative robots: Automated communication, entanglement and agency
Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen


S1-P4: PR and advertising

Chair: Magdalena Obermaier

Too much of a good thing? How the extent of CSR communication and the number of CSR measures influence the perception of companies
Benno Viererbl, Thomas Koch, Charlotte Schulz-Knappe, Kathrin Kamm

The evolution of hybrid advertising in the digital age – Coordinating journalists, advertising sales managers and advertiser –
Corinna Lauerer

Advertising what matters? Media effects of ads dealing with social issues
Tim Wulf, Brigitte Naderer

The ‚Normative Turn‘: How ethical global issues change our evaluation of country images
Jérôme Chariatte, Diana Ingenhoff

Completely obvious? How the salience of product placements influences the effects of tagging in sponsored influencer posts on Instagram
Johannes Beckert, Charlotte Schulz-Knappe, Thomas Koch


S1-W1: Workshop "Science meets Practice": Governance of Online Platforms

Chair: Stefano Pedrazzi

Governance of online platforms: Approaches and perspectives from the DACH region
Noemi Festic, Stefano Pedrazzi, Fiona Fehlmann, Leyla Dogruel, Samuel Studer, Florian Saurwein, Klaus Steinmaurer 

Wednesday, 7.04.2021 | 16:00 - 17:00

Parallel-Sessions Slot 2

S2-P1: Media and adolescents

Chair: Daniel Süss

Digital media for pupils with SEN/ASN (focus on inclusive teaching)
Tim Homrighausen, Anna-Maria Kamin, Daniel Mays, Claudia Mertens, Carolin Quenzer-Alfred

What we know about our society, we know from the smartphone: Young adults‘ media repertoires
Lisa Schwaiger, Mark Eisenegger, Daniel Vogler

YouTube explains.“ Adolescents‘ usage preferences, discovery strategies, and selection of video tutorials and explainer videos
Nina Altmaier, Christian Pentzold, Karsten D. Wolf

Changing uses and perceptions in a tech-saturated world: Why young adults‘ disconnect from social media
Minh Hao Nguyen

Addressing young people as a media policy issue in Switzerland: change and continuity in the last 20 years
Corinne Schweizer


S2-P2: Persuasion and media psychology

Chair: Thomas Koch

The status of states: Dynamical systems theory as a framework for understanding psychological states
Benjamin O. Turner, Elena Pelzer

Effects of entertaining television home shows on sense of home, mood, and eudaimonic well-being
Holger Schramm, Priska Breves, Nicole Liebers, Franca Dettmar

The role of prior attitudes in narrative persuasion: Evidence from a cross-national study in Germany and the US
Corinna Oschatz, Jeff Niederdeppe, Jiawei Liu

Message framing and emotional flow: Effectiveness of univalent and multivalent gain and loss frames in promoting sun protection behaviors
Alexander Ort, Anne Reinhardt, Constanze Rossmann, Laura Koch

Narratives through the looking glass: An automatic content analysis of the communication literature
Elena Pelzer, Benjamin O. Turner, Deborah Castro


S2-P3: Journalism: Influences and audience

Chair: Hartmut Wessler

Divergence through convergence? Self- and external expectations of journalism in times of communication change
Louise Sprengelmeyer, Julius Reimer, Sascha Hölig, Hannah Immler, Wiebke Loosen, Julia Behre

Trust in the media system and trust in media types – about the relationship of trust in different media objects
Ilka Jakobs, Tanjev Schultz, Marc Ziegele, Nikolaus Jackob, Oliver Quiring, Christian Schemer

How to pioneer online journalism – Conditions of success in entrepreneurial digital journalism
Daniel O‘Brien, Christian-Mathias Wellbrock

„Good“ journalism for the digital society? How online usage data affects media quality
Silke Fürst

An (im)perfect match: How digital technologies impact the working routines of investigative journalists
Jessica Kunert, Michael Brüggemann, Jannis Frech, Volker Lilienthal, Wiebke Loosen


S2-P4: Conference theme panel: Auditing algorithms: Empirical approaches to investigate the algorithmic content curation

Chair: Emese Domahidi

Algorithmic auditing through agent-based experiments
Mario Haim, Julian Unkel

Scaling virtual agent-based testing for cross-platform analysis of algorithmic content curation
Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa

Algorithmic information curation from the user’s perspective: Assessing perceptions of curated content with qualitative and mixed-methods designs
Anna Sophie Kümpel

Will data donation fix our problems? Comparing different pathways to data on algorithmic content curation
Cornelius Puschmann


 

S2-D1: Discoursive format: Together against hate

Organizers: Melanie Bößenecker, Lena Frischlich, Antonia Markiewitz, Manuel Menke, Magdalena Obermaier, Christina Peter, Claudia Riesmeyer, Heidi Schulze, Tim Wulf

Opening presentation:
#PandemicHateMails
Thorsten Quandt

Topic 1:
When criticism turns into hate - experience exchange on hate speech against communication researchers, coping strategies & best practice examples

Topic 2:
When students are affected - Dealing with incriminating materials in teaching and attacks on students

Topic 3:
When (seemingly) a way out is missing - institutional help offers and possibilities of establishing them at DACH universities and in the professional academic societies

Thursday, 8.04.2021 | 14:15 - 15:15

Parallel-Sessions Slot 3

S3-P1: Science and climate communication

Chair: Andreas Scheu

A crisis that strikes all of society. A cross-national and longitudinal study of the “societalization” of climate change
Valerie Hase, Daniela Mahl, Tobias Keller, Mike Schäfer

Rapid reaction: the Science Media Center and its response to the COVID-19 outbreak
Irene Broer, Louisa Pröschel

Slacktivism only? The influence of the pandemic „lockdown“ on online debates about Fridays for Future
Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Schlosser, Marc Jungblut, Jörg Haßler

Digital communication and social connection during changing times: The case of COVID-19
Minh Hao Nguyen, Jonathan Gruber, Will Marler, Amanda Hunsaker, Jaelle Fuchs, Eszter Hargittai

The use of the eye tracking method in science communication research
Sabrina Heike Kessler


S3-P2: Migration and hate speech

Chair: Dominique Wirz

Good for my country - bad for me? On the influence of media use on egocentric and sociotropic migration attitudes
Christine Meltzer, Pablo Jost, Christian Schemer

Stand by me! Muslims’ responses to islamophobic online hate speech and the role of counter speech
Desiree Schmuck, Magdalena Obermaier, Muniba Saleem

An online world of bias: The mediating role of cognitive biases on extremist attitudes
Brigitte Naderer, Diana Rieger

Shifting responsibility attributions: How the far-right & the general public shaped the Twitter discourse after the Hanau terror attack
Heidi Schulze, Julian Hohner, Diana Rieger

Does social media promote prejudices? Effects of online and traditional media use on attitudes towards refugees
Liane M. Reiners, Christian Schemer, Christine E. Meltzer


 

S3-P3: News in transition

Chair: Daniel Vogler

Media quality in transition: Quality of reporting and quality perception in Switzerland
Philipp Bachmann, Mark Eisenegger, Diana Ingenhoff, Daniel Vogler

Transformation to a hybrid news logic: What has stayed the same, what has been adjusted and what is fundamentally new in today‘s political reporting?
Sina Blassnig, Frank Esser

Telling (news) stories on Instagram. A quantitative content analysis of German news providers’ use of Instagram stories
Anna Sophie Kümpel, Tamara Rutschmann

Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A comparison of two German newspapers
Melanie Magin, Miriam Steiner, Birgit Stark, Linards Udris, Andrea Häuptli

Contribution to diversity? A comparative analysis of different notions of diversity in public service media and the press in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Linards Udris, Melanie Magin, Birgit Stark, Andreas Riedl, Miriam Steiner, Uwe Hasebrink, Ricard Parrilla Guix, Brigitte Hofstetter, Mark Eisenegger, Olaf Jandura

Using news in social media information environments: The PINGS framework
Anna Sophie Kümpel


S3-P4: Social relationships and gender communication

Chair: Jutta Röser

Incompetent Hillary, narcissistic Trump? Gender stereotyping of politicians on Facebook
Aliya Andrich, Emese Domahidi

Corona as a digitalization boost? The maker movement and the everydayization of „experimental practices“ during the Covid-19 pandemic
Andreas Hepp, Anne Schmitz

Baby through the ages: the representation of women in popular music from 1960 to 2018
Jule Scheper, Sabine Reich, Helmut Scherer

Between infatuation and separation pain - On the change of media use along individual relationship phases
Stephan Niemand

Everyday communication under conditions of digitalization: Proposal of a concept for the analysis of interpersonal communication
Anna Wagner


S3-P5: Populism

Chair: Edda Humprecht

Right-wing, populist, controlled by foreign powers? Manifestations of partisanship in the content structures of German alternative media
Philipp Müller, Rainer Freudenthaler

Is it all about science? Populist attitudes and climate skepticism
Robert Alexander Huber, Esther Greussing, Jakob-Moritz Eberl

Science-related populism in Switzerland and its implications for science-related media use: Results from a nationally representative survey
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin, Julia Metag

Corona conspiracy theories and their credibility
Katharina Christ

DIKI - A dictionary for automated incivility detection in German online discussions
Anke Stoll, Lena Wilms, Marc Ziegele

Thursday, 8.04.2021| 15:45 - 16:45

Parallel-Sessions Slot 4

S4-P1: Crisis communication and legitimacy

Chair: Daniel Vogler

Issue fates in the course of the crisis
Elisabeth Günther, Benjamin Fretwurst

Communication, cohesion, and corona: The impact of people’s use of journalistic and non-journalistic information sources on their sense of societal cohesion
Christina Viehmann, Marc Ziegele, Oliver Quiring

Hey, Google, tell me what the Holocaust looked like: Visual framing of mass atrocities by search engines
Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa

The effect of crises and their social construction
Benjamin Fretwurst, Elisabeth Günther

International public relations and organizational legitimacy: The role of relationships with the local government
Sarah Marschlich, Diana Ingenhoff


S4-P2: Political campaigns and actors

Chair: Carsten Reinemann

„I have a clear mandate from my political family“ A cross-national quantitative content analysis of Facebook posts of European and national parties in the 2019 European election campaigns
Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Schlosser, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Uta Rußmann, Melanie Magin, Vicente Fenoll

Instagram and party campaigning in the 2017 German federal election. A quantitative content analysis of the Instagram posts of German top politicians and parliamentary parties
Jessica Keller, Jörg Haßler, Anna Sophie Kümpel

Understanding the effects of political online targeting. Two studies on the impact of party preference and the mediating role of message perception
Pablo Jost, Simon Kruschinski, Michael Sülflow, Jörg Haßler, Marcus Maurer

Micro-Targeting in social networks: An empirical analysis of parties‘ trust in big data technologies and data analysis
Natascha Löffler

Are politicians true to themselves? Dimensions and operationalization of perceived political authenticity
Simon Lübke


S4-P3: Activism and participation

Chair: Manuel Menke

Do BlackLivesMatter? On the visual negotiation of the protests in the media
Ricarda Drüeke, Corinna Peil, Schreiber Maria

Political participation in transition: internet memes as a form of political expression on social media
Michael Johann

Setting new light on why people become politically active on social media - the explanatory potential of individual political responsibility
Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, Laura Leißner

A typology of digital activist repertoires: How the COVID-19 pandemic changed Fridays for Future online activism
Giuliana Sorce, Delia Dumitrica

Civic participation on online neighborhood platforms
Paula Nitschke, Moritz Schweiger


S4-P4: Conference theme panel: The re-figuration of public communication

Chair: Wiebke Loosen

Pioneer journalism: The re-figuration the organizational foundations of journalism
Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Leif Kramp, Hendrik Kühn, Paul Solbach

Journalism and its audience: The re-figuration of a relationship and its consequences for journalistic statement-making
Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer, Louise Sprengelmeyer

Repertoires of public connectivity: Individual media repertoires and the re-figuration of publics
Uwe Hasebrink, Lisa Merten


S4-D1: Discursive format: As the term, so the change

Chair: Birgit Stark

As the term, so the change. A discursive contribution to the specification of terms in the context of the current media change
Pascal Schneiders, Birgit Stark, Leyla Dogruel, Otfried Jarren, Christoph Neuberger


S4-W1: Workshop "Science meets Practice": The online disinhibition effect revisited - Disinhibition in the context of digital in/visibility

Organizers: Cornelia Brantner, Hanne Detel, Ines Engelmann, Katharina Lobinger, Nina Springer, Helena Stehle, Claudia Wilhelm

Theory contribution:
The online disinhibition effect - Definition, state of research, further development
Ines Engelmann, Nina Springer, Helena Stehle, Claudia Wilhelm

Practical perspectives I:
Individual motives and social conditions for disinhibition on the net
Isabel Schayani, Hanne Detel

Practical perspectives II:
Medial conditions, forms and mechanisms of online disinhibition
Ingrid Brodnig, Nina Springer

Practical perspectives III:
Modes of action and effects of online disinhibition as well as possible countermeasures
Sophie Achermann, Katharina Lobinger

Panel discussion:
Disinhibition on the net - Bringing together theoretical and practical perspectives

Friday, 9.04.2021 | 09:00 - 10:00

Parallel-Sessions Slot 5

S5-P1: Information environments and selection

Chair: Julian Unkel

Polarization as a consequence of homogeneous and algorithmically curated opinion environments? An experimental study of the actions taken during the coronavirus pandemic
Ole Kelm, Tim Neumann

Explications of avoiding ongoing issues in the news: On the role of the audience’ issue fatigue
Gwendolin Gurr, Julia Metag

A monoculture in the desert? The impact of intermediaries on the diversity of topic exposure
Pascal Jürgens, Birgit Stark

Selective exposure to information on the Internet. New insights from eye-tracking and novel measures of cognitive dissonance
Arne Freya Zillich, Lars Guenther

Disentangling media effects and media selectivity in a digital media environment: The case of social media use and drinking behavior among adolescents
Sarah Geber, Tobias Frey, Thomas Friemel


S5-P2: Methods

Chair: Jens Vogelgesang

Why do research collaborations succeed? Learning from the coordinators of international research projects
Sophia Charlotte Volk

Life recording and media diaries as a methodological approach to everyday digital media: approaches, applications and analyses
Anna Wagner, Christian Schwarzenegger, Peter Gentzel

Practice-theoretical journalism research and computational methods: A multi-method approach to the analysis of performative publics
Wolfgang Reißmann, Miriam Siemon, Margreth Lünenborg, Christoph Raetzsch

The walkthrough - a methodical approach for app (user) studies in for communication research
Jasmin Tröger, Annekatrin Bock, Felicitas Macgilchrist

Mapping the contours of comparative communication research: A systematic review of comparative studies in 27 communication journals, 2015-2019
Sophia Charlotte Volk


S5-P3: Communication and social environment

Chair: Anna Sophie Kümpel

Deceiving or imagining: Opinion climate perception in reference groups as an experimental condition
Jule Scheper, Helmut Scherer, Peter Christina

„The Smart City does not exist“ - A thematic analysis of the sociotechnical imaginary of the Zurich Smart City project
Lisa Brombach

Functions of opinion leaders in the communication process
Nicole Podschuweit

How the communicative transition leads to the development of digital occupants
Jeannine Teichert

The spiral of silence goes meso: Conceptualizing the causal relationships in the closer social evironment on perceived public opinion and opinion formation
Christiane Eilders, Helmut Scherer, Jule Scheper, Marius Gerads


S5-P4: Conference theme panel: Network analysis of text

Chair: Elad Segev

News coverage of international threats
Elad Segev, Noa Hatzir, Kohei Watanabe, Atsushi Tago

United (?) Kingdom – Digital city diplomacy in times of Brexit
Jérôme Chariatte, Diana Ingenhoff

When women voice their sexual attacks: A comparative analysis of Twitter reactions in Japan and South Korea
Saki Mizoroki, Bumsoo Kim

Mapping the field of communication studies using keywords of academic paper
Nico A. Pfiffner


 

S5-P5: Conference theme panel: Media quality in times of change

Chair: Otfried Jarren

Diversity does not equal diversity. A plea for the multidimensional measurement of media quality
Melanie Magin, Birgit Stark, Miriam Steiner, Andreas Riedl, Brigitte Hofstetter

Media quality from the audience‘s perspective: Usage and trust
Uwe Hasebrink, Maren Beaufort, Franziska Oehmer, Sascha Hölig, Mark Eisenegger, Josef Seethaler, Josef Trappel

Conflicts over values. Diversity and relevance of basic values of political actors in self-representations and media coverage as criteria for media quality
Olaf Jandura, Ricard Parrilla Guix, Merja Mahrt

Democratic media quality or catalysts of right-wing populism? The media discourse on refugee and asylum migration in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Raphael Kösters, Ralph Weiß, Linards Udris

 

Friday, 9.04.2021 | 10:30 - 11:30

Parallel-Sessions Slot 6

S6-P1: Public discourse

Chair: Linards Udris

„We want to create a pleasant discussion atmosphere and a reasonable discussion culture“: Role perceptions and social control of actors in online discussions
Dominique Heinbach, Marike Bormann, Marc Ziegele

#Chemnitz and its polarized affective publics
Ana Makhashvili, Margreth Lünenborg

Revisiting the mediated social communication (MSC) approach in the age of social media: Focusing on „socio-quoting“
Lauri Haapanen, Daniel Pfurtscheller

The (de)civilizing impact of an inclusive actor set in news articles on associated user debates
Timo Dobbrick, Julia Jakob, Hartmut Wessler

Conditions of critical-rational discourse – The influence of argument strength on the reduction of dissonance through disagreement in user comments
Hanna Marzinkowski, Ines Engelmann


S6-P2: Digitalization and well-being

Chair: Sarah Geber

Simply mindful? A quasi-experiment on the influence of mindfulness training (MBSR) on smartphone use
Dorothée Hefner, Anna Freytag

How do I tell my child? A Mixed-method study of parental communication of health information during the corona pandemic
Claudia Wilhelm, Claudia Riesmeyer, Doreen Reifegerste

Researching (in)visible data
Annekatrin Bock, Irina Zakharova

Alexa gives lectures and Siri does not feel responsible - How voice assistants deal with questions about the corona crisis
Katharina Frehmann, Jana Peters, Marc Ziegele

Sleeping with the smartphone: Parental mediation, children’s tiredness, and physical well-being
Kathrin Karsay, Desirée Schmuck, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes


S6-P3: Disinformation and misinformation

Chair: Anne Schulz

Deciphering information malfunctions. Misinformation on the corona pandemic and journalistic denials
Viorela Dan

Resilience to disinformation: A comparative analysis of engagement with disinformation on social media
Edda Humprecht, Anna Staender, Sophie Morosoli, Frank Esser, Peter Van Aelst

Anxiety fueling belief in and sharing of true, false, and corrected information on social media during COVID-19
Isabelle Freiling, Nicole M. Krause, Dietram A. Scheufele, Dominique Brossard

Deepfakes as a blessing and a curse – and how to govern their use in public communication
Maria Pawelec

More diverse, but less social - On the thematic diversity and community orientation of user-discussions on Facebook about the Corona pandemic
Pablo Jost, Christina Viehmann, Marc Ziegele


S6-P4: Conference theme panel: New methods for new (and old) topics

Chair: Aleksandra Urman

Media consumption and conspiracy beliefs in COVID-19 times – combing tracking and survey research
Silke Adam, Mykola Makhorthykh, Aleksandra Urman, Clara Christner, Teresa Gil Lopez, Michaela Maier

News at the time of crisis: Comparing desktop- and mobile-based browsing behaviour during COVID-19 pandemic
Mykola Makhorthykh, Silke Adam, Michaela Maier, Aleksandra Urman, Teresa Gil Lopez, Clara Christner, Ernesto de Leon

Something built, something borrowed, something new? Reflecting on different approaches to study exposure to news and political messaging with tracking data
Lisa Merten, Nadia Metoui


S6-W1: Workshop "Science meets Practice": Just behind or ahead? Platform strategies of public media between adaptation and innovation

Chair: Matthias Künzler

Just behind or ahead? Platform strategies of public media between adaptation and innovation
Ulla Autenrieth, Fiona Fehlmann, Matthias Künzler