• December 14, 2023
    New paper released! The article Mistakenly misinformed or intentionally deceived? Mis- and disinformation perceptions on the Russian War in Ukraine among citizens in 19 countries (doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12646) a collaboration of 26 authors including Jörg Matthes, is now available as advance online publication in the European Journal of Political Research.
  • December 8, 2023
    Successful PhD defense! We are super proud to announce that Ariadne Neureiter yesterday defended her dissertation entitled Misleading compensation claims in advertising: Perceptions and effects of greenwashing with distinction.
    Congratulations, Dr. Ariadne!
  • December 7, 2023
    New research project starting! Circle U., the European University Alliance, is funding the project Generative AI, Health Literacy and Well-Being of Citizens for a period of twelve months. The project will be conducted with colleagues of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), the Université Paris Cité (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark).
  • December 5, 2023
    Paper published!     Yesterday, Terrorism and Political Violence published Helena Knupfer's, Ruta Kaskeleviciute's and Jörg Matthes's article on Silent sympathy: News attention, subtle support for far-right extremism, and negative attitudes toward Muslims (doi:10.1080/09546553.2023.2282464).
  • November 27, 2023
    New paper available! Ariadne Neureiter's, Marlis Stubenvoll's and Jörg Matthes's collaboration entitled Is it greenwashing? Environmental compensation claims in advertising, perceived greenwashing, political consumerism, and brand outcomes (doi:10.1080/00913367.2023.2268718) was just released by the Journal of Advertising.
  • November 23, 2023
    Top Paper Award! Jörg Matthes and Franz Reiter received a Top Paper Award at AEJMC 2023 in Washington, D.C. Their contribution "The good, the bad, and the ugly". A panel study on the reciprocal effects of negative, dirty, and positive campaigning on political distrust (doi:10.1080/15205436.2021.1934702) was honored as the best paper published in Mass Communication and Society in 2022.
  • November 22, 2023
    New AdMe position(s)! We are currently searching for research assistants for short-term translation support within the ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets. Detailed information can be accessed here.
  • November 21, 2023
    New paper published! The article Peer correction of misinformation on social media: (In)civility, success experience and relationship consequences (doi:10.1177/14614448231209946) by Raffael Heiss, Andreas Nanz, Helena Knupfer, Elena Engel, and Jörg Matthes yesterday appeared in New Media & Society.
  • November 20, 2023
    Jörg Matthes new Editor-in-Chief of Communication Theory! Starting now, he will edit the journal for a period of four years. Communication Theory has an Impact Factor of 3.7, which currently ranks 29th in the field of communication (96 journals are listed in total).
  • November 7, 2023
    Successful PhD defense! We are very proud to announce that Marina Thomas yesterday defended her dissertation entitled Swipe culture: The psychological effects of swiping on dating applications with distinction.
    Congratulations, Dr. Marina!
  • November 3, 2023
    New article available! The paper Who says "Muslims are not terrorists"? News differentiation, Muslim versus non-Muslim sources, and attitudes toward Muslims (doi:10.1080/15205436.2023.2268097) by Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, and Jörg Matthes was just published in Mass Communication and Society.
  • October 16, 2023
    The dates and topics of this semester's research colloquium are now available. As usual, we invite everyone to join us on interesting debates. Please also check who's given a talk at our colloquium in the past years.
  • September 28, 2023
    Top Paper Award at LDK 23! The conference paper Grumpiness ambivalently relates to negative and positive emotions in ironic Austrian German text data, co-authored by Thomas Kirchmair, was honored with the Best Poster Award at the Language, Data and Knowledge 2023 Conference in Vienna.
  • September 27, 2023
    Paper out now! Anja Stevic's and Jörg Matthes's collaboration titled Co-present smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and social isolation: The role of coping strategies (doi:10.1016/j.chb.2023.107960) will appear in Volume 149 of Computers in Human Behavior.
  • September 13, 2023
    Paper published! The article The influence of political fit, issue fit and targeted political advertising disclosures on persuasion knowledge, party evaluation, and chilling effects (doi:10.1177/08944393231193731) by Melanie Hirsch, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes has now appeared in Social Science Computer Review.
  • September 11, 2023
    New AdMe position! We are currently looking to fill the position of a postdoctoral researcher within our team. If you are interested in joining us, please check the University of Vienna's Jobcenter for further details.
  • September 5, 2023
    New publications!     Policy & Internet has recently released the article Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount (doi:10.1002/poi3.360) by Isabelle Freiling, Marlis Stubenvoll, & Jörg Matthes.

    Further, the article Distracted children? Nighttime smartphone use, children's attentional problems, and school performance over time (doi:10.1177/02724316231164734) co-authored by Anja Stevic, Desirée Schmuck, Marina F. Thomas, Kathrin Karsay, and Jörg Matthes is now available online first in The Journal of Early Adolescence.
  • September 1, 2023
    New AdMe members!     We're happy to welcome Christina Brandstetter, Daisy Garner, and Irina Dietrich within our ranks. While Christina and Daisy will support Professor Matthes's teaching activities, Irina will be a research assistant within our European Union-funded Horizon 2020 project YouCount.

    Christina has recently started our Master program in Journalism and Communication Studies after completing her Bachelor studies in February 2023. She has already been a tutor for Communication Research Logics and Philosophy of Science at our Department.

    Daisy studied German and Psychology at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, USA (BA: 2021). From October onwards, she will be a student of our English-speaking Master program in Communication Science.

    Irina studied Comparative Literature (BA: 2021) and Journalism and Communication (BA: 2022) at our university. Since March 2022, she is studying toward a MA qualification in the Department of Political Science.

    A very warm welcome to AdMe to all of you!
  • August 22, 2023
    Publications galore! Over the course of the last few weeks, a total of five new papers of our team have been made published by various journals. For further details, please check the DOIs and references below.

    Matthes, J., Stevic, A., Koban, K., Thomas, M. F., Forrai, M., & Karsay, K. (2023). Fear of missing out, reflective smartphone disengagement, and loneliness in late adolescents. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2023.0014

    Heiss, R., Nanz, A., & Matthes, J. (2023). Social media information literacy: Conceptualization and associations with information overload, news avoidance and conspiracy mentality. Computers in Human Behavior, 148, 107908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107908

    Vranken, S., Matthes, J., Fitzgerald, K., & Beullens, K. (2023). I spy with my little eye: An eye-tracking study examining adolescents’ attention to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in Instagram stories. Appetite, 189, 107000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107000

    Matthes, J., Nanz, A., Kaskeleviciute, R., Reiter, F., Freiling, I., Neureiter, A., Stubenvoll, M., Sherrah, S. E., Juricek, S., Munzir, A. A., & Noronha, I. (2023). The way we use social media matters: A panel study on passive versus active political social media use and affective polarization. International Journal of Communication, 17, 5223-5245, retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19015/4294.

    Deng, R., & Matthes, J. (2023). Utopian or dystopian? The portrayal of the metaverse in popular news on social media. Heliyon, 9(4), e14509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14509
  • August 21, 2023
    Top Paper Awards at AEJMC!     Our team was once again present at AEJMC's annual convention, which was held in Washington, D.C., and where two of the team's papers were honored with Top Paper Awards. First up, the collaboration of Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, and Jörg Matthes entitled 'I stand up for us'. Muslims' feelings of stigmatization in response to terrorism on social media received the Second Place Faculty Paper Award of the Religion & Media Interest Group.

    Further, the first major piece of work of our ERC-funded project on digital hate involving Jörg Matthes, Kevin Koban, Stephanie Bührer, Thomas Kirchmair, Phelia Weiß, Maryam Khaleghipour, Melanie Saumer, and Rinat Meerson was honored with the Second Place Top Paper Award in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division Open Paper Competition. The title of the paper is The state of evidence in digital hate research: An umbrella review.
  • July 19, 2023
    New AdMe member! We're delighted to welcome Rinat Meerson within our ranks, who joins us as a predoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets.
    Rinat studied Psychology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany. She completed her master studies in May 2023.

    A very warm welcome to AdMe, dear Rinat!
  • July 6, 2023
    Positions galore! We are now also searching for a student assistant to support the research project YouCount, funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union. If you are interested in joining us, please check here for more details.
  • June 19, 2023
    Another AdMe position! We are currently looking to fill the position of a teaching assistant (ideally with a strong quantitative background and/or interest) to support Professor Matthes's teaching activities. If you are interested in joining us, please check the University of Vienna's Website for further details.
  • June 9, 2023
    New AdMe position! We are currently looking to fill the position of a teaching assistant to support Professor Matthes's teaching activities. If you are interested in joining us, please check the University of Vienna's Website for further details.
  • May 30, 2023
    Top Dissertation Award! We're proud to announce that Andreas Nanz was honored with the Political Communication Division PhD Dissertation Award of the International Communication Association (ICA). Andi received the award for his outstanding dissertation entitled Incidental exposure in the online world: Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences, which he completed with "summa cum laude" in August 2022.

    Congratulations, Andi!
  • May 30, 2023
    Top Paper Awards at ICA in Toronto! Three of our team's papers presented at this year's annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) have been honored with a total of four Top Paper Awards.
    First, the contribution A tale of two concepts. Differential predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality by Kevin Koban, Anja Stevic, and Jörg Matthes received a Top 4 Paper Panel Award by the Mobile Communication Division.

    Further, Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes were awarded a Top Student-led Paper Award for their research on The psychological influence of number of profiles and decision mode on dating apps: When locomotion is self-devaluing, also by the Mobile Communication Division.

    Last but not least, Phelia Weiß, Helena Knupfer, Ruta Kaskeleviciute, and Jörg Matthes were awarded two prizes (Top Poster Award by the Journalism Studies Division as well as an ICA Top Student Poster Award) for their presentation entitled Femicides in the news: Effects of victims' and perpetrators' nationality on victim blaming and fear of victimization.
  • May 30, 2023
    Guest Talk: We cordially invite you to Ljubisa Bojic's research talk entitled The impact of ChatGPT, Metaverse, and social media: Should large language models and recommender systems be a public good?, to be held on Monday, June 5 from 14:00 in Room 7.03 of our Department building Währinger Straße 29 as well as via Zoom. Ljubisa is a Senior Research Fellow/Coordinator at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

    If you are interested in joining, please check here for further details.
  • May 4, 2023
    Another paper published! What can stop the "pester power"? A longitudinal study on the impact of children's audiovisual media consumption on media-motivated food purchase requests (doi:10.1111/ijpo.13018) by Alice Binder and Jörg Matthes now appeared in Volume 18, Issue 6 of Pediatric Obesity.
  • April 25, 2023
    New article appeared! Marina Thomas's, Alice Binder's, and Jörg Matthes's study entitled The psychological influence of dating app matches: The more matches the merrier? (doi:10.1177/14614448231161598) has just been released by New Media & Society.
  • April 13, 2023
    New AdMe position! We are currently looking for a student assistant to support a study we will conduct in schools in Austria, scheduled for May 2023. If you are interested in participating in an interesting project, please check here for more details.
  • April 3, 2023
    More papers released! Two more papers have just been published by Telematics and Informatics and Computers in Human Behavior, respectively. First up, Michaela Forrai, Kevin Koban, and Jörg Matthes had their article Short-sighted ghosts. Psychological antecedents and consequences of ghosting others within emerging adults' romantic relationships and friendships (doi:10.1016/j.tele.2023.101969) published in Telematics and Informatics.

    Further, Computers in Human Behavior made Isabelle Freiling's and Jörg Matthes's contribution Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism (doi:10.1016/j.chb.2023.107769) available as advance online publication.
  • March 28, 2023
    Article available! The paper All the news that is fit to print? Reporting on a victim's character during a crisis (doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12461) by Daniel Laufer, Sabine Einwiller, and Ariadne Neureiter recently appeared in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.
  • March 22, 2023
    Digital Hate Talks starting April 17! This semester, we are organizing a talk series on digital hate and online hate speech with internationally renowned scholars within our ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets. For detailed information, please check our project website and the announcement poster.
  • March 21, 2023
    Award win! Anja Stevic was recently honored with the Teaching Award of the Department of Communication. The award honors outstanding teaching in Communication Science at our department.
    Congratulations, dear Anja!
  • March 15, 2023
    Top AdMe job placement!     Marlis Stubenvoll, who has been part of our team since 2017, has accepted a position as Senior Scientist at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and has joined Professor Christina Peter’s team.

    Prior to becoming a long-term AdMe member, Marlis studied German Philology (BA, 2014) at the University of Vienna. After completing her master studies in Journalism, Media and Globalisation at the Universities of Amsterdam (NL) and Aarhus (DK), Marlis joined AdMe in November 2017 as a project assistant and predoctoral researcher. In 2018, she was awarded a competitive and prestigious uni:docs fellowship for a period of three years. Since October 2021, Marlis was part of the NORFACE project team investigating consequences of data-driven campaigns for democracies. She recently defended her dissertation entitled Why misperceptions persist: The role of resistance to evidence in political news with "summa cum laude" (highest honor).

    Congratulations, dear Marlis!     We wish you all the best for your personal and academic future.
  • March 6, 2023
    The dates and topics of this semester's research colloquium are now available. As usual, we invite everyone to join us on interesting debates. Please also check who's given a talk at our colloquium in the past years.
  • March 1, 2023
    Maryam Khaleghipour joining ERC project DigiHate! Maryam, who has already been a Research Fellow at our department since last fall, will support DigiHate as a predoctoral researcher for the upcoming years.

    Before joining AdMe, Maryam studied Social Communication Science (M.A, 2019) at the University of Tehran, Iran. In 2022, she received a prestigious fellowship by the Haamee Institute for Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences (based in Iran) to start her doctoral studies at the University of Vienna.

    Welcome again to AdMe, dear Maryam!
  • March 1, 2023
    Michaela Forrai re-joining AdMe! We are delighted to welcome back Michaela as a predoctoral researcher within our team. Together with Jörg Matthes and Kevin Koban, she will conduct the research project Social Media Use and Adolescents' Well-Being, funded by the Austrian Science Fund.
    Ela is a familiar face in our research group, having supported us in various projects from 2018-2022 as a Bachelor and Master student. During the last year, she was a predoctoral researcher within Florian Arendt's project Reporting on Suicide in the Nineteenth Century.

    Happy to have back within our ranks, dear Ela!
  • February 23, 2023
    Successful PhD defense! We are very proud to announce that Marlis Stubenvoll yesterday defended her dissertation entitled Why misperceptions persist: The role of resistance to evidence in political news with distinction.
    Congratulations, Dr. Marlis!
  • February 16, 2023
    Website launched! The website for our ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets (2023-2027) is now up and running. Check it out here!
  • February 1, 2023
    New article released! Today, New Media & Society published the paper See something, say something? The role of online self-disclosure on fear of terror among young social media users (doi:10.1177/14614448221148982), co-authored by Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, and Jörg Matthes.
  • January 31, 2023
    New AdMe members! We're happily welcoming Stephanie Bührer and Thomas Kirchmair within our ranks, who will be part of our ERC-funded research project DigiHate.

    Stephanie studied Psychology (MSc, 2015) at the University of Vienna. Prior to joining AdMe, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Bern (2015-2016) and long-term lecturer (since 2017) at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna.

    Thomas is studying toward MA qualifications both in Journalism and Communication Studies as well as Digital Humanities. He has already gained extensive experience as research assistant within various projects at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), among others. After completing his master thesis supervised by Jörg Matthes, he will become a predoctoral researcher within the project DigiHate.

    Welcome to AdMe, dear Steffi and Thomas!
  • January 27, 2023
    New publication out now! The article 99+ matches but a spark ain't one: Adverse psychological effects of excessive swiping on young dating app users (doi:10.1016/j.tele.2023.101949) by Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, Anja Stevic, & Jörg Matthes just appeared as advance online publication in Telematics & Informatics.
  • January 20, 2023
    Two new papers available! The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication recently released Kevin Koban's, Anja Stevic's, and Jörg Matthes's contribution A tale of two concepts: Differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality (doi:10.1093/jcmc/zmac040).

    Further, the article The distraction effect. Political and entertainment-oriented content on social media, political participation, interest, and knowledge authored by Jörg Matthes, Raffael Heiss, and Hendrik van Scharrel (doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107644) will appear in volume 142 of Computers in Human Behavior.
  • January 1, 2023
    Alice Binder re-joining AdMe! We are very happy to welcome back Alice as a Senior Scientist within our team. She was already part of AdMe from October 2016 to November 2021, both as a predoctoral and a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to returning to Vienna, Alice held a position as Senior Scientist in Christina Peter's team at the Department of Media and Communications of the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt.

    Welcome again to AdMe and Vienna, dear Alice!