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Department V is dedicated to the general research of selection, reception and effects from a communication scientific and media psychological perspective. The main research concentrates on the following:
Main issues: Political persuasion, effects of infotainment, attitude formation in election and referendum campaigns.
Entertainment and Emotion Research
Main issues: sport and media, music and media, infotainment, affective media effects, mood management, parasocial interaction, presence ("feeling of being there"), suspension of disbelief, parental mediation of children's media usage
Main issues: Promoting sustainable and environmentally-friendly behavior, social norm approaches, sustainable tourism
Main issues: online newspaper, non-mediation (presence), hypertext research, search machines, diffusion and appropriation of new communication technologies (mobile, chat, short message services, ...)
Main issues: research concerning the situation and career advancement of doctoral students and assistant professors in the field of communication science, debate of self-conception, didactics of teaching measuring methods
Main issues: Effects of classical and new forms of advertising (e.g., Product Placements), context effects.
Main issues: Principles and logics of research in content analysis, survey and experiment; Conceptualization and operationalization of constructs