PHD Projects

Here you will find a list of the completed and ongoing PhD projects of the Research Training Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World”, organised into the areas of investigation of Media, Economy, Science and Sports and the levels of analysis of individuals, organisations and the public sphere. The respective publications can be found on this page under Publications.

Media

Individuals

  • Metacognitive Parameters of Privacy Regulation on Social Networking Sites (Dr. Ricarda Moll, 2015)
  • Alignment and Spoken Dialogue Systems – Influences on Trustworthiness and User Satisfaction (Dr. Gesa Linnemann, 2016)
  • Systemvertrauen und Journalismus unter den Bedingungen neoliberaler Subjektivierung  (Dr. Malte G. Schmidt, 2019)
  • The Perception of Journalistic Risk. Exploring the Relationship Between Risk, Trust, and News Journalism from the Recipients’ Point of View (Laura Badura)
  • Mediennutzung und virtuelle Realität: Erklärungsfaktoren der Akzeptanz und Nutzung von Virtual Reality im privaten Kontext (Robin Janzik)
  • Die Rolle von Emotionen bei der Wahrnehmung von Privatheitsrisiken in sozialen Onlinenetzwerken (Anja Schmitt)
  • Misinformation on Social Media: A User Perspective on Information Evaluation Comparing Germany and the United States (Dr. Isabelle Freiling, 2021)
  • Echte Meinungsfreiheit? Über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Äußerungen in der medialen Öffentlichkeit (Yasmin Erenler)
  • Relationships of Trust between Acteurs of Journalism and Politics in the Digitalized Age (Marco Rustemeyer)

Organisations

  • Recipient Trust in Online Information about Scientific Controversis - Comparing Journalism and Science Blogs (Dr. Sarah Fischer, geb. Westphal, 2016)
  • Source: Internet. The Role of Trust in Social Media Sources for the News Coverage of International Conflict Areas (Dr. Florian Wintterlin, 2018)
  • Redaktionelle Strategien der Vertrauensbildung – eine Analyse auf Basis eines integrativen Mehrebenenmodells des Vertrauens in den Journalismus (Bernadette Uth)

Public Sphere

  • The Depiction of Trust, Mistrust, and Trust Problems within the Context of Digitalization in the Media (Dr. Katherine M. Engelke, geb. Grosser, 2017)
  • Trust and Communication: Foundations of Interconnectivity (Dr. Anil Kunnel, 2019)

Business

Individuals

  • Effective management of virtual work relationships. Empirical contributions to leadership research (Dr. Philipp Romeike, 2015)
  • Women and Men at the Negotiation Table: Advancing Theory and Research (Dr. Jens Mazei, 2017)
  • Benefits and risks of activity-based flexible offices (Dr. Christina Wohlers, 2018)
  • Explaining Citizens' Non-Adoption and Adoption of E-Government in Germany (Dr. Bettina Distel, 2018)
  • Maximierung von Vertrauen in virtuellen Teams durch innovative Groupware-Lösungen (Dr. Christina Breuer, 2018)
  • Managing Trust in Times of Digital Transformation (Dr. Maike Bruckes, 2019)
  • Leadership in the digital age: Effects of digitization on context, tools, and functions of leadership communication (Dr. Miriam Höddinghaus, 2021)
  • Trust Emergence and Development in Dyadic Nego-tiations: Towards a Better Understanding of Negotiator Trust and its Antecedents (Dominik Sondern)

Organisations

  • Vertrauen in Parteien durch Gespräche über Wahlwerbung. Der Einfluss interpersonaler Kommunikation über Werbung auf das Vertrauen in politische Parteien (Dr. Christian Wiencierz, 2015)
  • Building Trust through Communication via Websites in the Context of Cloud Computing (Dr. Ayten Öksuz, 2015)
  • Building Trust through Social Presence in Online Environments – A General Evaluation and the Application in the Cloud Computing Context (Dr. Nicolai Walter, 2015)
  • Managing trust across levels - empirical propositions for banks (Dr. Simone Zachariat, 2018)
  • Interorganizational collaboration. Empirical contributions to supply chain research (Dr. Maximilian Holtgrave, 2018)
  • User's Trust and Perceived Risk in the Design of Human-Centered Information Systems (Holger Koelmann)
  • Content Marketing in der Strategischen Kommunikation - potentielle Täuschung von Rezipienten und ihre Wirkungen auf Vertrauen in digitale Informationsangebote (Julia Berding, geb. Niebergall)
  • Kommunikation von Werten durch Non-Profit-Organisationen (Anna Dudenhausen)
  • Organizational Transparency and Trust (Richard Hossiep)
  • Trust within organizational teams a multilevel perspective (Viktoria Baumeister)
  • Trust in Algorithm- and Data-Based Strategic Communication (Natascha Löffler)

Public Sphere

  •  Der Einfluss von electronic Word of Mouth auf Konsumentenvertrauen am Beispiel der Mobilfunkbranche (Dr. Mona Folger, 2019)

Science

Individuals

  • Establishing Trust in Online Health Communication: The Role of Privacy, Expertise, and Social Validation in Online Forums (Dr. Franziska Bhakta, geb. Thon, 2015)
  • Trust in health information online. On the role of language style and context of communication online (Dr. Maria Zimmermann, 2018)
  • Vertrauen und Kommunikation im Kontext digitalisierter Lernumgebungen: Strategien für eine vertrauensschaffende Gesundheitskommunikation (Dr. Lars König, 2019)
  • Trust in eHealth (Leonie Kuen)
  • Vigilance and trust in reasoning about controversially discussed science claims on social media (Dr. Lukas Gierth, 2021)
  • Please mind the knowledge gap: Effects of explaining science on people's knowledge perception and strategies for coping with the distribution of cognitive labor in everyday life (Nina Vaupotic)
  • Digital Outreach - The role of trust for digitally mediated parent counselling on socio-emotional competence (Eva Strehlke)

Public Sphere

  • “Who Said What, and Why?” – How Laypeople Infer the Epistemic Trustworthiness of Experts (Dr. Friederike Henriks, 2016)
  • Uncertain and thus trustworthy? The effects of communicating scientific uncertainty on source trustworthiness (Inse Janssen)

Sports

Individuals

  • An Agent-base Analysis of Doping Behaviour in Elite Sports (Dr. Daniel Westmattelmann, 2018)
  • The Psychology of Technology - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand the Role of Trust in Fitness App Usage (Dr. Lena Busch, 2019)
  • Trust in the coach - athlete relationship through digital communication (Dr. Sidney Querfurth, 2019)
  • Are you thinking what I am thinking? Measurement implications and empirical support for Shared Mental Models in sports (Dr. Charlotte Raue, 2021)

Organisations

  • Creating Trust concerning PED- and PIED-Consume in Sports-Clubs and Sport-Federations (Dr. Dennis Dreiskämper, 2015)

Public Sphere

  • Believe it or not: The effect of athlete’s crisis communication on trustworthiness and reputation in case of doping allegations (Dr. Katharina Pöppel, 2015)