Yannic Meier

At this year’s #MePsy25 conference in Duisburg, I presented a position paper about “small” media effects. While our field lacks objective criteria to decide when such effects are practically relevant, I proposed 5 criteria that can help deciding about relevance. Slides & paper on osf 👉 osf.io/d2ah7/

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You heard it here first (maybe): The CAT/Mobile doctoral consortium will officially be happening again at #ica26 in Cape Town! Are you dissertating? Consider applying for mentorship from top scholars in comm tech / mobile.

🚨Publication Alert🚨

New paper with @nadinebol.bsky.social published in JCMC! We studied inequalities in users’ beneficial and harmful online experiences (3rd level digital divide) and combined this view with arguments about mistrust in online companies and self-inhibited behaviors. Short🧵👇

Unequal experiences, unequal outcomes? Digital inequalities in experiencing online benefits and privacy harms, mistrust, and self-inhibiting behaviors Abstract. Digital inequality research shows that certain sociodemographic groups (e.g., older persons) experience fewer benefits from using digital technol

Link to article 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc...

In the manuscript, we discuss possible reasons for these patterns of inequality including structural disadvantages and power imbalances.

Dig. inequalities: older age relates to both less frequent beneficial and harmful experiences while higher education positively relates to having beneficial experiences. Older age also positively relates to mistrust and self-inhibition. Women are more likely to engage in self-inhibition than man.

The more beneficial experiences someone has, the lower their mistrust and tendency to self-inhibition are. Interesetingly, positive and negative experiences are positively correlated which implies that you cannot only experience the pos. side.

With a sample of 1,410 German participants, we find that having harmful experiences like feeling compelled to give up personal data or accidentally accepting cookies positively relates to mistrust into online companies and the tendency to inhibit one’s digital behaviors (e.g., not using a service).

So far, 3rd level divide studies conceptualized inequality as differences in (not) experiencing benefits by using digital technology. In our view, this ignores harmful experiences such as violations of one’s privacy during tech-use which might be associated with higher mistrust and self-inhibition.

🚨Publication Alert🚨

New paper with @nadinebol.bsky.social published in JCMC! We studied inequalities in users’ beneficial and harmful online experiences (3rd level digital divide) and combined this view with arguments about mistrust in online companies and self-inhibited behaviors. Short🧵👇

Seeing through the ad? An investigation of persuasion awareness, coping mechanisms, and credibility for targeted political advertisements A major problem with political microtargeting is that users are often unaware that they are being targeted, while current transparency approaches apparently fail to inform them. This is problematic...

📣📣Publication Alert

Excited to share that the final (but also second haha) paper of my dissertation on political microtargeting 🎯and transparency together with @ymeier.bsky.social and Nicole Krämer is published in Behaviour and Information Technology.

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Amazing news!! Congrats and welcome to UDE🥳

New Student Column! 🎓✨ Dive into insights from ICA’s new SEC Representative on how student and early career scholars navigate today’s changing academic world. Don’t miss this fresh perspective! buff.ly/qb56Wfl

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

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w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

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We're still seeking nominations for the CAT executive committee . CAT is seeking our next vice-chair, early career rep, and international liaison. Interested? Details are in your ICA email. Questions? Ask anyone on the current executive team. We'd love to have you join us!

Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research Abstract. Since the advent of social network sites, researchers have investigated how and why users share personal information online. Yet, the replicabili

🎉 New publication out!

Really happy to share that our article “Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research” is now published in the Journal of Communication.

Full article: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

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Der Temperaturverlauf auf der Erde relativ zum Vorindustriellen Niveau seit 120.000 Jahren. So warm wie heute war es mindestens seit Beginn der letzten Eiszeit nicht mehr. Die letzten Neandertaler lebten vor etwa 40.000 Jahren. Der menschengemachte Klimawandel heute ist ein senkrechter Strich!! Quelle: Zeit.de https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2025-06/klimageschichte-veraenderung-temperatur-entwicklung-daten

Das letzte Mal, dass es so warm auf der Erde war wie gerade, ist mind. 100.000 Jahre her und ich weiß nicht, was ich erschreckender finde - die Tatsache, dass die menschengemachte globale Erwärmung hier einfach ein senkrechter Strich (!) ist, oder dass es immer noch Leute gibt, die sie leugnen. 🌍🔥😐

Strong methods at display at #ica25 privacy session:

- SESOI
- Replications
- Preprints
- Bayesian Stats
- Response Surface Analysis …

#openscience #researchreform

Support your student and early career colleagues and come to this amazing panel starting in 40 minutes!👇

Happening in 30 minutes in Capitol 1, Hyatt Regency 4! #ica25

Correction: the previous poster has some wrong dates.

🚨 Important info for all students & early-career scholars at #ica25 👇

(4/4) Afterwards, I will present a study conducted together with @nadinebol.bsky.social in which we examined digital inequality in experiencing benefits and privacy harms when using ICTs and the relations to mistrust and self-inhibition.

screenshot of the ica-panel from the online program

(3/4) Sat (3:00 pm), I have the honor to give 2 talks in the “NEKO-tiating Digital Boundaries” panel chaired by @tobiasdienlin.com. First, I'll present a study w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Kimberly Garcia, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux & Simon Mayer et al. about the effect(ivenes)s of the Visual Privacy tool.

screenshot of the ica-panel from the online program

(2/4) On Friday (9:00 am), I will be part of the “PURR-plexing Privacy” panel presenting a longitudinal study conducted together with @masurphil.bsky.social connecting the topics of digital surveillance, self-inhibition, privacy cynicism, and critical privacy literacy.

(1/4) Tonight, #ica25 will kick off with the opening plenary & reception. This year, I will present 3 studies about the broader topics of online privacy, surveillance, digital inequality, and transparency on Fri/Sat. After a year of ICA-abstinence, I am so much looking forward to this conference!🏔️☀️

Please join us for the Communication & Technology Business Meeting Fri Jun 13 at 4:30pm in Centennial F (Regency 3). #ICA25

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Evergreen #ica25 tips -
Go to top paper panels in other divisions.
Go to business meetings, those are the room(s) where it happens.
Go to at least 1 random panel for fun.
Hydrate, especially in Denver with high elevation.
Buy snacks for your room.
Have fun.