Sabine Trepte
Biographic Data
| ID | 224318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Trepte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Trepte |
| SIGNATURE | TREPTE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hohenheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6882-8707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Felt Time Scale (FTS): Measuring how people experience screen time
Privacy and political online microtargeting during the German Federal Election 2021
In the context of Federal Elections, political parties frequently engage in targeting social media users with tailored content. To facilitate this, personal data must be collected and processed, often without the users’ explicit awareness. Many users view political online microtargeting as an intrusion upon their privacy. In a longitudinal time-based sampling study shortly before, during, and after the German Federal Election in 2021, we surveyed…
Authors’ gender and productivity as predictors of reciprocal dynamics in publications and citations in communication
Gender bias in academic publishing and citation practices in communication has been discussed extensively, yet the link between the two remains poorly understood. Does an author who publishes more articles automatically get cited more frequently—and what are the underlying author-level individual (e.g., gender, productivity) and article-level systemic (e.g., journal prestige) factors? We analyzed 57,283 articles and 507,706 citations from 85 comm…
Taking stock of social media privacy: Meta-analytic evidence on how control, trust, and concerns are associated with social media use, disclosure, and protection
Social media users face uncertainty regarding the flow and use of their data. They engage in a variety of privacy behaviors, such as limiting how much social media they use, controlling what they disclose, and protecting their privacy, while considering their options—for example, deciding whether they can trust certain providers, whether they feel that they have control over their privacy settings, or how much concern they should feel. This study…
Longitudinal dynamics of self-presentation in face-to-face and messenger-based communication
Gender diversity at academic conferences—the case of the International Communication Association
Gender diversity and the lack of women in leadership in academia have been issues of academic interest for decades. However, little is known about gender diversity at academic conferences as an essential aspect of academia. We investigated 86,719 contributions to International Communication Association (ICA) conferences over the past 18 years with regard to female and male authorship and how it changed following the introduction of childcare, dur…
The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media
This volume provides the basis for contemporary privacy and social media research and informs global as well as local initiatives to address issues related to social media privacy through research, policymaking, and education. Renowned scholars in the fields of communication, psychology, philosophy, informatics, and law look back on the last decade of privacy research and project how the topic will develop in the next decade. The text begins with…
National diversity at conferences of the International Communication Association
Replication material for "National Diversity at Conferences of the International Communication Association" published in the Annals of the International Communication Association http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2023.2261018
Development and Validation of the Need for Privacy Scale (NFP-S)
Need for privacy gains importance in various disciplines, i. e. computer mediated-, interpersonal-, and health communication. These disciplines demand the reliable measurement of he need for privacy across different contexts. We suggest a theoretical understanding of the need for privacy as a personality trait and developed a scale based on Burgoon’s (1982) privacy dimensions. In study 1, we developed and tested the need for privacy scale (NFP-S)…
Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media
Learning by doing oder doing by learning? Die Wechselwirkung zwischen Online- Privatheitskompetenz und Datenschutzverhalten
Die Nutzung von und die Kommunikation mit sozialen Medien basiert auf dem Austausch persönlicher Daten. Dabei können Privatheitsrisiken entstehen, vor denen man sich oft nur schwer schützen kann. Damit Menschen Online-Angebote selbstbestimmt nutzen können, ist ein gewisser Schutz ihrer Daten erforderlich. Immer häufiger wird die Online-Privatheitskompetenz als Voraussetzung dafür angesehen. Kritisch hinterfragt wird jedoch, ob Wissen über Online-…
Political Microtargeting and Online Privacy: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Users’ Privacy Behaviors
Social media allow political parties to conduct political behavioral targeting in order to address and persuade specific groups of users and potential voters. This has been criticized: Most social media users do not know about these microtargeting strategies, and the majority of people who are aware of targeted political advertising say that it is not acceptable. This intrusion on personal privacy is viewed as problematic by users and activists a…
Medienpsychologie
Der Band präsentiert die wichtigsten psychologischen Erkenntnisse zur Mediennutzung und beantwortet Fragen wie: Welche Rolle spielt die Persönlichkeit bei der Medienauswahl? Finden Menschen in sozialen Medien Unterstützung? Wie tragen Medien zum Well-Being bei? Was lernen Menschen mit Medien und welche Medienkompetenzen sollten sie besitzen? In acht Kapiteln werden grundständige Theorien und aktuelle Studien in einer vollständigen Neubearbeitung …
Transformative or Not? How Privacy Violation Experiences Influence Online Privacy Concerns and Online Information Disclosure
Previous research has shown that people seldom experience privacy violations while using the Internet, such as unwanted and unknown sharing of personal information, credit card fraud, or identity theft. With this study, we ask whether individuals’ online privacy concerns increase and online information disclosure decreases if they experience such a worst-case scenario. Using representative data from a five-wave panel study (n = 745), we found tha…
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox
The privacy paradox states that people’s concerns about online privacy are unrelated to their online sharing of personal information. On the basis of a representative sample of the German population, which includes 1,403 respondents interviewed at three waves separated by 6 months, we investigate the privacy paradox from a longitudinal perspective. Using a cross-lagged panel model with random intercepts, we differentiate between-person relations …
Note from the co-editors
The privacy calculus contextualized: The influence of affordances
National and gender diversity in communication: A content analysis of six journals between 2006 and 2016
Researchers’ national and gender diversity are some of the most important goals of our discipline in order to ensure the representation of diverse perspectives. We conducted a content analysis of the national and gender diversity of authors and editorial board members of six communication journals between 2006 and 2016. National diversity is low in journals and boards: 80% of the 18,175 authors are affiliated with 12 of the 91 nations. Gender dis…
Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experience privacy as being influenced by legal, technical, and social norms and structures. In this article, we hence attempt to connect insights of different academic disciplines into a joint model, an Interdisciplin…
The Social Media Privacy Model: Privacy and Communication in the Light of Social Media Affordances
Privacy has been defined as the selective control of information sharing, where control is key. For social media, however, an individual user’s informational control has become more difficult. In this theoretical article, I review how the term control is part of theorizing on privacy, and I develop an understanding of online privacy with communication as the core mechanism by which privacy is regulated. The results of this article’s theoretical d…
Medienpsychologie
Medienpsychologische Fragen sind allgegenwärtig: Warum finden wir einen Film spannend? Welchen Einfluss hat Musik auf unsere Gefühle? Machen gewalthaltige Computerspiele aggressiv? Die medienpsychologische Forschung beantwortet diese und viele weitere Fragen. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse werden in diesem Band auf prägnante und verständliche Weise dargestellt. Jedes Kapitel gibt einen Überblick der Definitionen und Theorien, beinhaltet aktuelle St…
Privacy in Mediated and Nonmediated Interpersonal Communication: How Subjective Concepts and Situational Perceptions Influence Behaviors
New communication media such as social networking sites (SNSs) and instant messengers (IMs) challenge users' privacy perceptions. Technical infrastructures and the flow of digital information lead to novel privacy risks that individuals are often not acquainted with. Users' subjective perceptions of privacy may thus be flawed and lead to irrational behavior. In this work, we investigated a concept that has been addressed only implicitly in academ…
Social Identity Theory and Self‐Categorization Theory
Social identity theory and self‐categorization theory suggest that people categorize themselves as belonging to certain groups such as nationality, gender, or even sports teams. Social identity theory focuses on how group memberships guide intergroup behavior and influence an individual's self‐concept. Closely tied to self‐categorization is an individual's evaluation of the in‐group. To reach positive evaluations of one's own in‐group, people eng…
Reinforcement or Displacement? The Reciprocity of FtF, IM, and SNS Communication and Their Effects on Loneliness and Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Effects of Ftf, Sns, and Im Communication
Does communication on social network sites (SNSs) or instant messengers (IMs) reinforce or displace face-to-face (FtF) communication, and how do the 3 channels affect loneliness and life satisfaction? Using cross-lagged structural equation modeling in a longitudinal and representative sample from Germany, we found that SNS communication increased both FtF and IM communication 6 months later. Likewise, IM communication at T1 increased SNS communic…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
Reinforcement or Displacement? The Reciprocity of FtF, IM, and SNS Communication and Their Effects on Loneliness and Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Effects of Ftf, Sns, and Im Communication
Does communication on social network sites (SNSs) or instant messengers (IMs) reinforce or displace face-to-face (FtF) communication, and how do the 3 channels affect loneliness and life satisfaction? Using cross-lagged structural equation modeling in a longitudinal and representative sample from Germany, we found that SNS communication increased both FtF and IM communication 6 months later. Likewise, IM communication at T1 increased SNS communic…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
The Social Media Privacy Model: Privacy and Communication in the Light of Social Media Affordances
Privacy has been defined as the selective control of information sharing, where control is key. For social media, however, an individual user’s informational control has become more difficult. In this theoretical article, I review how the term control is part of theorizing on privacy, and I develop an understanding of online privacy with communication as the core mechanism by which privacy is regulated. The results of this article’s theoretical d…
Is the privacy paradox a relic of the past? An in‐depth analysis of privacy attitudes and privacy behaviors
The privacy paradox states that online privacy concerns do not sufficiently explain online privacy behaviors on social network sites (SNSs). In this study, it was first asked whether the privacy paradox would still exist when analyzed as in prior research. Second, it was hypothesized that the privacy paradox would disappear when analyzed in a new approach. The new approach featured a multidimensional operationalization of privacy by differentiati…
Cultural proximity in TV entertainment: An eight-country study on the relationship of nationality and the evaluation of U.S. prime-time fiction
In previous research, cultural proximity has been operationalized by ‘hard facts’ such as geographical distance, the exchange of goods or persons (tourists and immigrants) and the similarity of political systems. This article will try to complement current work in the field by suggesting a new operationalization derived from Hofstede's (1991) cultural dimensions. A survey was conducted in eight countries with a student sample (N = 325) to find ou…
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox
The privacy paradox states that people’s concerns about online privacy are unrelated to their online sharing of personal information. On the basis of a representative sample of the German population, which includes 1,403 respondents interviewed at three waves separated by 6 months, we investigate the privacy paradox from a longitudinal perspective. Using a cross-lagged panel model with random intercepts, we differentiate between-person relations …
National and gender diversity in communication: A content analysis of six journals between 2006 and 2016
Researchers’ national and gender diversity are some of the most important goals of our discipline in order to ensure the representation of diverse perspectives. We conducted a content analysis of the national and gender diversity of authors and editorial board members of six communication journals between 2006 and 2016. National diversity is low in journals and boards: 80% of the 18,175 authors are affiliated with 12 of the 91 nations. Gender dis…
Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experience privacy as being influenced by legal, technical, and social norms and structures. In this article, we hence attempt to connect insights of different academic disciplines into a joint model, an Interdisciplin…
Social Media, Privacy, and Self-Disclosure: The Turbulence Caused by Social Media's Affordances
The struggle we currently perceive in terms of social media privacy may be the result of the incompatible natures of 'warm' and 'cold' affordances. Whereas social media's warm affordances reflect long-standing privacy routines and expectations, cold affordances seem to challenge and sometimes violate them. Sharing under the realm of warm affordances means sharing according to the routines and habits we know. Sharing under the realm of cold afford…
Privacy in Mediated and Nonmediated Interpersonal Communication: How Subjective Concepts and Situational Perceptions Influence Behaviors
New communication media such as social networking sites (SNSs) and instant messengers (IMs) challenge users' privacy perceptions. Technical infrastructures and the flow of digital information lead to novel privacy risks that individuals are often not acquainted with. Users' subjective perceptions of privacy may thus be flawed and lead to irrational behavior. In this work, we investigated a concept that has been addressed only implicitly in academ…
Cultural proximity in TV entertainment: An eight-country study on the relationship of nationality and the evaluation of U.S. prime-time fiction
In previous research, cultural proximity has been operationalized by ‘hard facts’ such as geographical distance, the exchange of goods or persons (tourists and immigrants) and the similarity of political systems. This article will try to complement current work in the field by suggesting a new operationalization derived from Hofstede's (1991) cultural dimensions. A survey was conducted in eight countries with a student sample (N = 325) to find ou…
Allgemeinbildung in Deutschland: Erkenntnisse aus dem SPIEGEL-Studentenpisa-Test
Privacy Online: Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web
"Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people. Yet when personal data exist online, they may be searched, reproduced and mined by advertisers, merchants, service providers or even stalkers. Many users know what may happen to their information, while at the same time they act as though their data are private or intimate. They expect their privacy will not be infringed while they w…
The social side of gaming: How playing online computer games creates online and offline social support
Medienpsychologie
Medienpsychologische Fragen sind allgegenwärtig: Warum finden wir einen Film spannend? Welchen Einfluss hat Musik auf unsere Gefühle? Machen gewalthaltige Computerspiele aggressiv? Die medienpsychologische Forschung beantwortet diese und viele weitere Fragen. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse werden in diesem Band auf prägnante und verständliche Weise dargestellt. Jedes Kapitel gibt einen Überblick der Definitionen und Theorien, beinhaltet aktuelle St…
Authenticity and well-being on social network sites: A two-wave longitudinal study on the effects of online authenticity and the positivity bias in SNS communication
Influence of Social Support Received in Online and Offline Contexts on Satisfaction With Social Support and Satisfaction With Life: A Longitudinal Study
People around the globe now regularly interact with family and friends through social network sites (SNSs). In this article, we investigated the differences between social interactions in online and offline contexts as well as users' satisfaction with the social support received in these contexts. It was hypothesized that SNSs are better set up for the task of leveraging informational support but that they are inferior to offline contexts in term…
Is the privacy paradox a relic of the past? An in‐depth analysis of privacy attitudes and privacy behaviors
The privacy paradox states that online privacy concerns do not sufficiently explain online privacy behaviors on social network sites (SNSs). In this study, it was first asked whether the privacy paradox would still exist when analyzed as in prior research. Second, it was hypothesized that the privacy paradox would disappear when analyzed in a new approach. The new approach featured a multidimensional operationalization of privacy by differentiati…
Social Media, Privacy, and Self-Disclosure: The Turbulence Caused by Social Media's Affordances
The struggle we currently perceive in terms of social media privacy may be the result of the incompatible natures of 'warm' and 'cold' affordances. Whereas social media's warm affordances reflect long-standing privacy routines and expectations, cold affordances seem to challenge and sometimes violate them. Sharing under the realm of warm affordances means sharing according to the routines and habits we know. Sharing under the realm of cold afford…
Medienpsychologie: Schlüsselbegriffe und Konzepte
In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…
Social Identity Theory and Self‐Categorization Theory
Social identity theory and self‐categorization theory suggest that people categorize themselves as belonging to certain groups such as nationality, gender, or even sports teams. Social identity theory focuses on how group memberships guide intergroup behavior and influence an individual's self‐concept. Closely tied to self‐categorization is an individual's evaluation of the in‐group. To reach positive evaluations of one's own in‐group, people eng…
Reinforcement or Displacement? The Reciprocity of FtF, IM, and SNS Communication and Their Effects on Loneliness and Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Effects of Ftf, Sns, and Im Communication
Does communication on social network sites (SNSs) or instant messengers (IMs) reinforce or displace face-to-face (FtF) communication, and how do the 3 channels affect loneliness and life satisfaction? Using cross-lagged structural equation modeling in a longitudinal and representative sample from Germany, we found that SNS communication increased both FtF and IM communication 6 months later. Likewise, IM communication at T1 increased SNS communic…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
Medienpsychologie
Medienpsychologische Fragen sind allgegenwärtig: Warum finden wir einen Film spannend? Welchen Einfluss hat Musik auf unsere Gefühle? Machen gewalthaltige Computerspiele aggressiv? Die medienpsychologische Forschung beantwortet diese und viele weitere Fragen. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse werden in diesem Band auf prägnante und verständliche Weise dargestellt. Jedes Kapitel gibt einen Überblick der Definitionen und Theorien, beinhaltet aktuelle St…
Privacy in Mediated and Nonmediated Interpersonal Communication: How Subjective Concepts and Situational Perceptions Influence Behaviors
New communication media such as social networking sites (SNSs) and instant messengers (IMs) challenge users' privacy perceptions. Technical infrastructures and the flow of digital information lead to novel privacy risks that individuals are often not acquainted with. Users' subjective perceptions of privacy may thus be flawed and lead to irrational behavior. In this work, we investigated a concept that has been addressed only implicitly in academ…
Note from the co-editors
The privacy calculus contextualized: The influence of affordances
National and gender diversity in communication: A content analysis of six journals between 2006 and 2016
Researchers’ national and gender diversity are some of the most important goals of our discipline in order to ensure the representation of diverse perspectives. We conducted a content analysis of the national and gender diversity of authors and editorial board members of six communication journals between 2006 and 2016. National diversity is low in journals and boards: 80% of the 18,175 authors are affiliated with 12 of the 91 nations. Gender dis…
Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experience privacy as being influenced by legal, technical, and social norms and structures. In this article, we hence attempt to connect insights of different academic disciplines into a joint model, an Interdisciplin…
The Social Media Privacy Model: Privacy and Communication in the Light of Social Media Affordances
Privacy has been defined as the selective control of information sharing, where control is key. For social media, however, an individual user’s informational control has become more difficult. In this theoretical article, I review how the term control is part of theorizing on privacy, and I develop an understanding of online privacy with communication as the core mechanism by which privacy is regulated. The results of this article’s theoretical d…
Learning by doing oder doing by learning? Die Wechselwirkung zwischen Online- Privatheitskompetenz und Datenschutzverhalten
Die Nutzung von und die Kommunikation mit sozialen Medien basiert auf dem Austausch persönlicher Daten. Dabei können Privatheitsrisiken entstehen, vor denen man sich oft nur schwer schützen kann. Damit Menschen Online-Angebote selbstbestimmt nutzen können, ist ein gewisser Schutz ihrer Daten erforderlich. Immer häufiger wird die Online-Privatheitskompetenz als Voraussetzung dafür angesehen. Kritisch hinterfragt wird jedoch, ob Wissen über Online-…
Political Microtargeting and Online Privacy: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Users’ Privacy Behaviors
Social media allow political parties to conduct political behavioral targeting in order to address and persuade specific groups of users and potential voters. This has been criticized: Most social media users do not know about these microtargeting strategies, and the majority of people who are aware of targeted political advertising say that it is not acceptable. This intrusion on personal privacy is viewed as problematic by users and activists a…
Medienpsychologie
Der Band präsentiert die wichtigsten psychologischen Erkenntnisse zur Mediennutzung und beantwortet Fragen wie: Welche Rolle spielt die Persönlichkeit bei der Medienauswahl? Finden Menschen in sozialen Medien Unterstützung? Wie tragen Medien zum Well-Being bei? Was lernen Menschen mit Medien und welche Medienkompetenzen sollten sie besitzen? In acht Kapiteln werden grundständige Theorien und aktuelle Studien in einer vollständigen Neubearbeitung …
Transformative or Not? How Privacy Violation Experiences Influence Online Privacy Concerns and Online Information Disclosure
Previous research has shown that people seldom experience privacy violations while using the Internet, such as unwanted and unknown sharing of personal information, credit card fraud, or identity theft. With this study, we ask whether individuals’ online privacy concerns increase and online information disclosure decreases if they experience such a worst-case scenario. Using representative data from a five-wave panel study (n = 745), we found tha…
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox
The privacy paradox states that people’s concerns about online privacy are unrelated to their online sharing of personal information. On the basis of a representative sample of the German population, which includes 1,403 respondents interviewed at three waves separated by 6 months, we investigate the privacy paradox from a longitudinal perspective. Using a cross-lagged panel model with random intercepts, we differentiate between-person relations …
Computer Science (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (16 works) · Social Media and Politics (16 works) · Internet privacy (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social media (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · World Wide Web (10 works)