Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
8:00am
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9:00am
Welcome Coffee Pre-Conference
9:00am
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6:30pm
Pre-Conference Workshop
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Pre-Conference Lunch
7:00pm
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10:00pm
Get-Together
Location: Finkenkrug Duisburg

 
Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
8:00am
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8:20am
Doors Opening
8:20am
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8:40am
Welcome to the MediaPsych 2025
Location: LX1205
Welcome to the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ruhr Area, with Maic Masuch (UDE, Deputy Dean, Department of Human-Centered Computing and Cognitive Science, Faculty of Computer Science) and German Neubaum (UDE, on behalf of the MediaPsych 2025 Organizing Committee)
8:40am
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8:45am
Info: Presentation Times
In sessions with four presenters, each speaker will have 15 minutes for their presentation, followed immediately by 7.5 minutes of Q&A. In sessions with five presenters, each speaker will have 12 minutes for their presentation, followed immediately by 6 minutes of Q&A. Please be mindful of the time limits to help keep the sessions on schedule.
8:45am
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10:15am
1.1: Disrupting Media Psychological Views (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Chair: Hannah LOGEMANN
1.2: Algorithms, Attention, and Affect
Location: LK051
Chair: Stefanie KLEIN
1.3: Beliefs and Attitudes Towards AI
Location: LK052
Chair: Jakob KAISER
1.4: Entertainment Experiences
Location: LK053
Chair: Jordan Caspian KING
1.5: Online Hate and Cyberbullying
Location: LK061
Chair: Kevin KOBAN
 
10:15am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am
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12:00pm
2.1: Human-AI and Mediated Experiences (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Chair: Aike C. HORSTMANN
2.2: Media Literacy and Misinformation
Location: LK051
Chair: Lena IWERTOWSKI
2.3: AI in Education and Learning Environments
Location: LK052
Chair: Bianca NOWAK
2.4: Eudaimonia
Location: LK053
Chair: Julius KLINGELHOEFER
2.5: Coping and Mental Health
Location: LK061
Chair: Lena KLEIN
 
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
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1:35pm
Presentation of the Best Paper Award by the DGPS
Location: LX1205
1:35pm
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2:20pm
Keynote 1: Jessica Piotrowski - Why Competence — Not Control — Should Guide the Future
Location: LX1205
2:20pm
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2:30pm
Coffee Break
2:30pm
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4:00pm
3.2: Children and Parental Mediation
Location: LK051
Chair: Lara WOLFERS
3.3: Mental Health and AI
Location: LK052
Chair: Douglas A. PARRY
3.4: Gendered Perspectives on Media Use
Location: LK053
Chair: Sabine REICH
3.5: Idelogical Bias and Motivated Reasoning in Digital Contexts
Location: LK061
Chair: Hannah DECKER
   
4:00pm
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4:15pm
Coffee Break
4:15pm
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5:45pm
4.1: Novel Views on Established Concepts (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Chair: Johannes BREUER
4.2: Well-Being
Location: LK051
Chair: Felix REER
4.3: AI in Social and Romantic Interactions
Location: LK052
Chair: Cynthia DEKKER
4.4: Effects of Video Games
Location: LK053
Chair: Nicholas David BOWMAN
4.5: Media, Politics and Civic Engagement
Location: LK061
Chair: Ulrike SCHWERTBERGER
JMP: Journal of Media Psychology Special Panel
Location: LK062
Chair: Caleb T CARR
5:45pm
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6:15pm
Poster Session 1
7:00pm
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11:00pm
Conference Dinner
Location: Webster Brauhaus Duisburg

 
Date: Friday, 12/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
5.1: MediaPsych Debate Club 2: Debate Club: We Don’t Need Digital Traces of Time Spent on Digital Media
Location: LX1205
Chair: Maximilian T. P. VON ANDRIAN-WERBURG
5.2: AI and Society
Location: LK051
Chair: Julian BORNEMEIER
5.3: Virtual Reality and Voice Assistants
Location: LK052
Chair: Nadja RUPPRECHTER
5.4: Online Privacy and Protective Measures
Location: LK053
Chair: Philipp K. MASUR
 
10:30am
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10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am
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11:30am
Keynote 2: Mitra Shamsi - Digital Visibility and Embodied Vulnerability: Feminist Activism in Authoritarian Contexts
Location: LX1205
11:30am
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12:00pm
Poster Session 2
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
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3:00pm
6.0: MediaPsych Debate Club 1: “Silencing Hate or Fanning the Flames?” – The Promise and Peril of Counterspeech in Online Spaces
Location: LK061
Chair: Frank M. SCHNEIDER
6.1: Social Media: Harms and Gratifications (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Chair: German NEUBAUM
6.2: Social Aspects of Digital Media Use
Location: LK051
Chair: Sarah LUTZ
6.3: Human-Robot Interaction
Location: LK052
Chair: Anna Maria Helene ABRAMS
6.4: Digital Media and Adolescent Development
Location: LK053
Chair: Kerria DRÜPPEL
3:00pm
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4:15pm
Business Meeting: Division Media Psychology (DGPs)
Location: LX1205