Conference Agenda

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

 
Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
8:00am - 8:20amDoors Opening
8:20am - 8:40amWelcome 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 - 8:45amInfo: 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 - 10:15am1.1: Disrupting Media Psychological Views (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Session Chair: Hannah LOGEMANN
8:45am - 10:15am1.2: Algorithms, Attention, and Affect
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Stefanie KLEIN
8:45am - 10:15am1.3: Beliefs and Attitudes Towards AI
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Jakob KAISER
8:45am - 10:15am1.4: Entertainment Experiences
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Jordan Caspian KING
8:45am - 10:15am1.5: Online Hate and Cyberbullying
Location: LK061
Session Chair: Kevin KOBAN
10:15am - 10:30amCoffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm2.1: Human-AI and Mediated Experiences (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Session Chair: Aike C. HORSTMANN
10:30am - 12:00pm2.2: Media Literacy and Misinformation
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Lena IWERTOWSKI
10:30am - 12:00pm2.3: AI in Education and Learning Environments
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Bianca NOWAK
10:30am - 12:00pm2.4: Eudaimonia
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Julius KLINGELHOEFER
10:30am - 12:00pm2.5: Coping and Mental Health
Location: LK061
Session Chair: Lena KLEIN
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch
1:30pm - 1:35pmPresentation of the Best Paper Award by the DGPS
Location: LX1205
1:35pm - 2:20pmKeynote 1: Jessica Piotrowski - Why Competence — Not Control — Should Guide the Future
Location: LX1205
2:20pm - 2:30pmCoffee Break
2:30pm - 4:00pm3.2: Children and Parental Mediation
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Lara WOLFERS
2:30pm - 4:00pm3.3: Mental Health and AI
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Douglas A. PARRY
2:30pm - 4:00pm3.4: Gendered Perspectives on Media Use
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Sabine REICH
2:30pm - 4:00pm3.5: Idelogical Bias and Motivated Reasoning in Digital Contexts
Location: LK061
Session Chair: Hannah DECKER
4:00pm - 4:15pmCoffee Break
4:15pm - 5:45pm4.1: Novel Views on Established Concepts (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Session Chair: Johannes BREUER
4:15pm - 5:45pm4.2: Well-Being
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Felix REER
4:15pm - 5:45pm4.3: AI in Social and Romantic Interactions
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Cynthia DEKKER
4:15pm - 5:45pm4.4: Effects of Video Games
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Nicholas David BOWMAN
4:15pm - 5:45pm4.5: Media, Politics and Civic Engagement
Location: LK061
Session Chair: Ulrike SCHWERTBERGER
4:15pm - 5:45pmJMP: Journal of Media Psychology Special Panel
Location: LK062
Session Chair: Caleb T CARR
5:45pm - 6:15pmPoster Session 1
7:00pm - 11:00pmConference Dinner
Location: Webster Brauhaus Duisburg

 
Date: Friday, 12/Sept/2025
9:00am - 10:30am5.1: MediaPsych Debate Club 2: Debate Club: We Don’t Need Digital Traces of Time Spent on Digital Media
Location: LX1205
Session Chair: Maximilian T. P. VON ANDRIAN-WERBURG
9:00am - 10:30am5.2: AI and Society
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Julian BORNEMEIER
9:00am - 10:30am5.3: Virtual Reality and Voice Assistants
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Nadja RUPPRECHTER
9:00am - 10:30am5.4: Online Privacy and Protective Measures
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Philipp K. MASUR
10:30am - 10:45amCoffee Break
10:45am - 11:30amKeynote 2: Mitra Shamsi - Digital Visibility and Embodied Vulnerability: Feminist Activism in Authoritarian Contexts
Location: LX1205
11:30am - 12:00pmPoster Session 2
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm6.0: MediaPsych Debate Club 1: “Silencing Hate or Fanning the Flames?” – The Promise and Peril of Counterspeech in Online Spaces
Location: LK061
Session Chair: Frank M. SCHNEIDER
1:30pm - 3:00pm6.1: Social Media: Harms and Gratifications (Position Paper)
Location: LX1205
Session Chair: German NEUBAUM
1:30pm - 3:00pm6.2: Social Aspects of Digital Media Use
Location: LK051
Session Chair: Sarah LUTZ
1:30pm - 3:00pm6.3: Human-Robot Interaction
Location: LK052
Session Chair: Anna Maria Helene ABRAMS
1:30pm - 3:00pm6.4: Digital Media and Adolescent Development
Location: LK053
Session Chair: Kerria DRÜPPEL
3:00pm - 4:15pmBusiness Meeting: Division Media Psychology (DGPs)
Location: LX1205