Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World"

The DFG-funded graduate school “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World” explores how trust can be developed and maintained under the conditions of new forms of media-mediated communication. Digital communication methods change the establishment and stabilization of trust. At the same time, new forms of relationships are emerging between individuals, organizations and the public. The graduate school examines the consequences of this process for building trust in four prototypical research areas: media, business, science and sport. The Research Training Group uses various social science methods (experiment, questioning, content analysis, observation, building artifacts) to research individual, organizational and social trust-building. The aim of the college is to gain new methodological insights in addition to empirical findings and to theoretically substantiate the disparate trust research.

In the interdisciplinary college, a total of 19 particularly qualified doctoral students from the disciplines of communication science, psychology, business administration, business informatics and sports science will work on a variety of interdisciplinary issues.

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