📣In less than 2 months the #DGPS conference will take place in Luxembourg. To support #MediaPsych members & researchers with limited funding we offer #travelgrants. 💡We will also consider applications from non-members with a presentation or poster reporting a study with a #MediaPsychology focus.

Media Psych Travel Grants 2026

Travel Grants for the DGPs Conference 2026 The Media Psychology Division is offering three travel grants of €200 each to support PhD candidates and other early-career researchers attending the DGPs Co...

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📣 Call for Applications: CAIS Fellowships📣 Looking for dedicated time to focus on your research? ⏲️ @cais-research.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its #Fellowship Programme. #CAIS supports innovative research on the societal impacts of digital transformation. 📱📈🧵

📅Save the date 📅 The #MediaPsychology division will be launching a lecture series entitled 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. Starting this autumn, experts will present their research and perspectives on #diversity. 🌈

📣 PhD opportunity at the @rctrust.bsky.social ! The Young Investigator Group 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 led by @wischnewski.bsky.social focuses on how #AI influences thoughts, feelings, interactions, behaviour, emotions, decision-making and social connections. www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

🔎 Capturing media use and related variables is a crucial task in #MediaPsychology, which can be supported by smartphone-based approaches.📲 Our Youth Representative @klingelhoefer.bsky.social will host a workshop on "Mobile Data Collection and Analysis" together with @lukotto.bsky.social this fall. 👇

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Learn from @lukotto.bsky.social and @klingelhoefer.bsky.social how to study people's behaviors and experiences in real time with smartphone-based data collection and multilevel modelling at the #GESISfallseminar. More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/MobileDataCo... @gesis.org

1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵

📣 The 54th @dgps.bsky.social Congress (Sep 7–10, 2026, Luxembourg) invites submissions on topics such as #DigitalTransformation, #AI, #MentalHealth and #SustainableBehavior. 📅 Deadline: February 14, 2026 🔗 More info: www.uni.lu/fhse-en/conf...

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📣 New year, new job alerts 📣 The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense 🇩🇰 is hiring a PhD and postdoc in an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” at an interdisciplinary and international workplace. 🌐

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 🎉from the Media Psychology Division of the DGPs! We wish everyone a happy and successful 2026. Some activities and opportunities in our community were already highlighted in our December newsletter, in case you missed it:

5 days left to register for the Winter Writing School! ❄️✍️ The Workshop is jointly organized by MiRezFo (DGPuK) and #MediaPsych youth representatives —designed to help junior scholars make progress on their writing projects. Free of charge + 2 travel grants (150 €)! 👉 Sign up kurzly.de/wvsce

MiRezFo x Media Psych Writing Winter School

We are very excited for the first ever joined writing workshop organized by MiRezfo and Media Psych. Program: Day 1 (March 2nd, from 2 PM): Check in & Get together, Input on writing strategies, Mini-...

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Boost your writing this winter! ❄️✍️ We’re thrilled to launch our first-ever Winter Writing Workshop, jointly organized by MiRezFo (DGPuK) and Media Psych youth representatives —designed to help junior scholars make progress on their writing projects. 👉 Sign up by Dec.15th: forms.gle/kPBUDZsVfyHh...

MiRezFo x Media Psych Writing Winter School

We are very excited for the first ever joined writing workshop organized by MiRezfo and Media Psych. Program: Day 1 (March 2nd, from 2 PM): Check in & Get together, Input on writing strategies, Mini-...

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🚀 Call for Applications: Fellowships & Working Groups 🚀 @cais-research.bsky.social is now accepting applications for innovative projects exploring the societal impact of #digitaltransformation. Open to experts from academia and practice, all career stages, disciplines, and research approaches. 🔎👩‍💻📈

Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 Apply now: Form your own CAIS Working Group! Work interdisciplinarily on digital transformation, get funding, and meet in Bochum. Travel & accommodation covered. 👉 For Working Group Meetings in 2027 🗓 Application Deadline: Dec 19, 2025 www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll... #CAIScollege #Bochum

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Two PhD positions in an @erc.europa.eu project at @uni-muenster.de with @thorstenquandt.bsky.social om "Dark Nerd Communities". Check out and share! 👇

Thorsten Quandt@thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

Please consider submitting a paper to our special issue in the Journal Entertainment Computing (Elsevier): Digital Worlds, Real Impact - The Evolving Role of Games in Society. Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026. The full call can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📢 Call for blog posts! The #DiversPrivat project is looking for short articles, opinions & creative pieces on diversity-sensitive online privacy. Deadline: 14 Dec 2025. Submit (DE/EN) to: kontakt@privacy4all.de 👉 privacy4all.de/blog

@hannahdecker.bsky.social is a postdoc at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social . She holds a PhD from @unidue.bsky.social, for which she analysed online political campaigning on social media and the role of personalised content. Currently, she focuses on positive effects of #digitalmedia and #medialiteracy.

Great opportunity! Professorship in Communications Sciences with a Concentration on Change and Innovation in Communication. Start: August 2027 Where: @ikmz.bsky.social Infos: 👇

UZH: Professorship in Communications Sciences with a Concentration on Change and Innovation in Communication

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in communication sciences with a concentration on change and innovation in communication starting on 1 August 2027. Candidates for thi...

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📢 JOB ALERT 📢 @tilburg-university.bsky.social is looking for a Full professor of Communication, Cognition, and Information. You can find the full description here. 👇 urlr.me/qUpCMS

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.

@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.

@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.

Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups. As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.

@romohseni.bsky.social is a postdoc in the #MediaPsychology and Media Design group at TU Ilmenau. He holds a PhD from the University of Osnabrueck, for which he experimentally investigated in-game aggression and helping. His current research focuses on sexist online hate speech on video platforms.

📣Job alert 📣 11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas: ✅ Immersive virtual reality ✅New (Para-)Social Encounters ✅Epistemic challenges Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

Markus Appel@markusappel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

The newly elected young scholar representatives of the @dgps.bsky.social met up to start their work. 💪 For the #mediapsych division @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @janadreston.bsky.social will be representing young scholars wishes and needs and bring their perspective into the association. 📢

Dr. Matthias F. J. Sperl@mfjsperl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨ Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝

! JOB ALERT ! 👇 The @rptu.bsky.social is looking for a Professor of Political Psychology.

Stephan Winter@stephanwinter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects). Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure? @mepsy.bsky.social (1/3)

New division chairs incoming! #MePsych25 marked the end of the chair team's term. Huge thanks to @lenafrescamente.bsky.social(Chair), @stephanwinter.bsky.social(Vice Chair), @romohseni.bsky.social(Treasurer), @dpossler.bsky.social & @lunafrauhammer.bsky.social(ECR Representatives) for their work!

And this year’s #mepsy25 best paper award goes to Marie Sophie Hunze and colleagues! 👏👏👏

Prof. Dr. Adrian Meier (FAU WiSo) hat als einer von zwei Forschern der FAU einen Starting Grant des European Research Councils (ERC) zugesprochen bekommen. Für ihre Projekte werden beide Forscher mit jeweils 1,5 Millionen Euro gefördert. 👏 Weitere Infos hier: go.fau.de/1cad @adrianmeier.bsky.social

FAU Erlangen-Nbg@fau.de · 11mo ago

Dr. Carlos L. Bassani forscht zu Nanokristallen und Prof. Dr. Adrian Meier zu sozialer Gesundheit. Für ihre Projekte haben die beiden FAU-Wissenschaftler jeweils einen ERC Starting Grant in Höhe von 1,5 Millionen Euro zugesprochen bekommen. Mehr erfahren: www.fau.de/2025/09/news...