Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Dienlin

Professorship Interactive Communication

Währinger Straße 29 (R. 6.29), 1090 Vienna

✆  +43-1-4277-493 14
✉  tobias.dienlin@univie.ac.at

Personal Website: www.tobiasdienlin.com

Consultation: Based upon prior agreement (via E-Mail)

➥  Privacy, personality, & self-disclosure
➥  Social media, communication, & well-being
➥  Open science

Tobias Dienlin is Associate Professor of Interactive Communication at the Department of Communication. He previously worked at the Department of Media Psychology at University of Hohenheim, where wrote his Ph.D. on „The Psychology of Privacy". Tobias Dienlin is a trained psychologist and received his diploma at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in 2012.

Tobias spent several months in the US as visiting scholar at Ohio State University (2013) and at University of California in Santa Barbara (2014). During his Ph.D., Tobias Dienlin received a full PhD scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

His main research interests include privacy and well-being, both with a focus on social media. Tobias Dienlin also works on questions related to Open Science.

Selected Publications

Privacy

  • Dienlin, T., & Metzger, M. (2024). Who needs privacy? Exploring the relations between need for privacy and personality. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 120402. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.120402 [paper, website, data, materials]
  • Dienlin, T., & Breuer, J. (2023). Privacy is dead, long live privacy! Two diverging perspectives on current issues related to privacy. Journal of Media Psychology, 35(3), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000357 [preprint]
  • Kezer, M., Dienlin, T., & Baruh, L. (2022). Getting the privacy calculus right: Analyzing the relations between privacy concerns, expected benefits, and self-disclosure using Response Surface Analysis. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. Doi: doi.org/10.5817/CP2022-4-1 [paper, code, data]

Well-Being

  • Klinger, D., Plener, P. L., Marboe, G., Karwautz, A., Kothgassner, O. D., & Dienlin, T. (2024). Exploring the relationship between media use and depressive symptoms among gender diverse youth: Findings of the Mental Health Days Study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18(1), 104. doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00797-x
  • Johannes, N., Dienlin, T., Bakhshi, H., & Przybylski, A. K. (2022). No effect of different types of media on well-being. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 61. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-03218-7 [paper, code, data]
  • Dienlin, T., & Johannes, N. (2020). The impact of digital technology use on adolescent well-being. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(2), 135–142. doi:10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/tdienlin. [paper]

Open Science

  • Perreault, G., & Dienlin, T. (2024). Normalizing open science practice: Understandings, evaluations, and implementations of open science practices in the field of Communication. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241262346[preprint, data, material]
  • Dienlin, T., Johannes, N., Bowman, N. D., Masur, P. K., Engesser, S., Kümpel, A. S., Lukito, J., Bier, L. M., Zhang, R., Johnson, B. K., Huskey, R., Schneider, F. M., Breuer, J., Parry, D. A., Vermeulen, I., Fisher, J. T., Banks, J., Weber, R., Ellis, D. E., … de Vreese, C. (2020). An agenda for open science in Communication. Journal of Communication. doi:10.1093/joc/jqz052 [paper]