Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scherr
Lehrstuhlinhaber
Digital Health Communication
imwk - Institut für 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien, Wissen und Kommunikation
Telefon: | +49 821 598 5710 |
E-Mail: | sebastian.scherr@uni-auni-a.de () |
Raum: | 5057 (D) |
Sprechzeiten: | auf Anfrage |
Adresse: | Universit?tsstra?e 10, 86159 Augsburg |
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Soziale 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien, psychische Gesundheit & Wellbeing?
- Soziale 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien und Suizidpr?vention
- Kulturübergreifende Aspekte digitaler Gesundheitskommunikation
- Management digitaler?Gesundheitsinformationen?
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Publikationen
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- Ju, Y., Scherr, S., & Prieler, M. (online first). How do recommended elements in suicide news coverage work? An investigation of the effect of responsible reporting and readers’ reflectiveness on suicide prevention. Health Communication. doi:10.1080/10410236.2023.2247154
- Zeid, N., Frissen, T., & Scherr, S. (online first). ????_??????# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English. New 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ia and Society. doi:10.1177/14614448221137016?
- Scherr, S., Arendt, F., & Haim, M. (online first). Algorithms without frontiers? How language-based algorithmic information disparities for suicide crisis information sustain digital divides over time in 17 countries. Information, Communication & Society. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2097017
- Lueck, J., Callaghan, T., & Scherr, S. (online first). Suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Investigating mental health, COVID-19 health beliefs, and news media consumption in the United States population in the year 2020. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. doi:10.1177/00302228211062361
- Scherr, S., Arendt, F., Prieler, M., & Ju, Y. (online first). Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: Does depression predict selective exposure to negative news? The Social Science Journal. doi:10.1080/03623319.2020.1859817
- Arendt, F., Markiewitz, A., & Scherr, S. (2023). News for life: Improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides. Journal of Communication, 73(1), 73–85. doi:10.1093/joc/jqac039
- Temmann, L. J., Reifegerste, D., Wiedicke, A., & Scherr, S. (2023). Effects of health responsibility frames: Testing a mediation model of attributions, emotions, and social support intentions. Journal of Health Communication, 28(8), 552–561. doi:10.1080/10810730.2023.2232326
- Lee, R. J., Lee, S., & Scherr, S. (2023). How tree canopy cover can reduce urban suicide attempts: A geospatial analysis of the moderating role of area deprivation. Landscape and Urban Planning, 230, 104606. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104606
- Unterreiter, L., Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2023). Investigating the effects of disclosure of lived experience of depression by mental health professionals: A web-based randomized controlled trial. Health & New 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ia Research, 7(1), 31–36. doi:10.22720/hnmr.2023.00024?? ?
- Wiedicke, A., Reifegerste, D., Temmann, L. J., & Scherr, S. (2022). Verbal and visual framing of responsibility for type 1 diabetes by patient influencers on Instagram. Social 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ia + Society, 8(4). doi:10.1177/20563051221136114
- Wiedicke, A., Reifegerste, D., Temmann, L. J., & Scherr, S. (2022). Framing depression: Individual, societal, and social network responsibility attributions in media coverage. European Journal of Health Communication, 3(3), 92–117. doi:10.47368/ejhc.2022.305
- Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2022). COVID-19, the media, and communication scholarship: Adequate concepts for the crisis or a crisis of concepts? Annals of the International Communication Association, 46(4), 255–257. doi:10.1080/23808985.2022.2143393
- Chen, Y. A., Fan, T., Toma, C. L., & Scherr, S. (2022). International students’ psychosocial wellbeing and their social media use at the onset of the pandemic: A latent profile analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 137. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107409
- Yin, X.-Q., Scherr, S., Jin, L., Gaskin, J., & Wang, J.-L. (2022). Impressions matter more than privacy: The moderating roles of affordances in the relation between social anxiety and online safety-seeking behaviors. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 16(3), Article 1. doi:10.5817/CP2022-3-1.
- Scherr, S., Reifegerste, D., Arendt, F., van Weert, J., & Alden, D. L. (2022). Family involvement in medical decision making in Europe and the United States: A replication and extension in five countries. Social Science & 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】icine, 301. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114932
- Scherr, S. (2022). Social media, self-harm, and suicide. Current Opinion in Psychology, 46. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101311
- Yin, X.-Q., Zhang, X.-X., Scherr, S., & Wang, J.-L. (2022). Browsing makes you feel less bad: An ecological momentary assessment of passive Qzone use and young women’s negative emotions. Psychiatry Research, 309. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114373
- Baugut, P., & Scherr, S. (2022). The news expectation predicament: Comparing and explaining what audiences expect from the roles and reporting practices of reporters on right-wing extremism. Journalism, 23(5), 973–991. doi:10.1177/1464884921996307
- Wang, K., & Scherr, S. (2022). Dance the night away: How automatic TikTok use creates pre-sleep cognitive arousal and daytime fatigue. Mobile 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ia & Communication, 10(2), 316–336. doi:10.1177/20501579211056116
- Temmann, L. J., Wiedicke, A., Schaller, S., Scherr, S., & Reifegerste, D. (2021). A systematic review of responsibility frames and their effects in the health context. Journal of Health Communication, 26(12), 828–838. doi:10.1080/10810730.2021.2020381
- Scherr, S., & Leiner, D. (2021). The populist hotbed: How populist attitudes, perceived injustice, and resentment drive selective exposure to populist news. PLOS One, 16(10), e0258220. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258220
- Haim, M., Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2021). How search engines may help reduce drug-related suicides. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 126, 108874. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108874
- Scherr, S., & Wang, K. (2021). Explaining the success of social media with gratification niches: Motivations behind daytime, nighttime, and active use of TikTok in China. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, 106893. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.106893
- Reifegerste, D., Wiedicke, A., Temmann, L. J., & Scherr, S. (2021). Mut zur Lücke: Verantwortungszuschreibungen auf der Ebene sozialer Beziehungen als neuer Bereich der Framing-Forschung zu Gesundheitsthemen [Mind the gap: Responsibility attributions at the level of the social network as a new avenue for research on the framing of health topics]. Publizistik, 66(2), 255–276. doi:10.1007/s11616-021-00652-5
- Scherr, S. (2021). Traditional media use and depression in the general population: Evidence for a non-linear relationship. Current Psychology, 40, 957–972. doi:10.1007/s12144-018-0020-7
- Markiewitz, A., Arendt, F., & Scherr, S. (2021). Verantwortungsvolle Berichterstattung über Suizide: Forschungsüberblick und Empfehlungen für die journalistische Praxis [Responsible reporting on suicides: A review of current research and practical recommendations for journalists]. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien Journal, 44(3), 50–68. doi:10.24989/medienjournal.v44i3.1804
- Arendt, F., Markiewitz, A., Mestas, M., & Scherr, S. (2020). COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries. Social Science & 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】icine, 265. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113532
- Arendt, F., Markiewitz, A., & Scherr, S. (2020). Investigating suicide-related subliminal messages on Instagram: A frame-by-frame analysis of video posts. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 42(4), 263–269. doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000717
- Arendt, F., & Scherr, S. (2020). News-stimulated public-attention dynamics and vaccination coverage during a recent measles outbreak: An observational study. Social Science & 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】icine, 265. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113495
- Bartsch, A., Scherr, S., Mares, M.-L., & Oliver, M. B. (2020). Reflective thoughts about violent media content – development of a bilingual self-report scale in English and German. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ia Psychology, 23(6), 794–819. doi:10.1080/15213269.2019.1647248
- Arendt, F., Haim, M., & Scherr, S. (2020). Investigating Google’s suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: A cross-national study in four European countries. Social Science & 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】icine, 262. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112692
- Scherr, S., & Zhou, J. (2020). Automatically identifying relevant variables for linear regression with the Lasso method: A methodological primer for its application with R and a performance contrast simulation with alternative selection strategies. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(3), 204–211. doi:10.1080/19312458.2019.1677882
- Scherr, S., Arendt, F., Frissen, T., & Oramas, J. (2020).? Detecting intentional self-harm on Instagram: Development, testing, and validation of an automatic image-recognition algorithm to discover cutting-related posts. Social Science Computer Review, 38(6), 673–685. doi:10.1177/0894439319836389
- Niederkrotenthaler, T., Braun, M., Pirkis, J., Till, B., Stack, S., Sinyor, M., Tran, U., Voraceck, M., Cheng, Q., Arendt, F., Scherr, S., Yip, P. S. F., & Spittal, M. (2020). Association between suicide reporting and suicide: Systematic review and meta-analysis. The BMJ, 368(8238), m575. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m575
- Scherr, S., & Goering, M. (2020). Is a self-monitoring app for depression a good place for additional mental health information? Ecological momentary assessment of mental help information seeking among smartphone users. Health Communication, 35(8), 1004–1012. doi:10.1080/10410236.2019.1606135
- Markiewitz, A., Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2020). Increasing adherence to media guidelines on responsible reporting on suicide: Suggestions from qualitative interviews with German journalists. Journalism Studies, 21(4), 494–511. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2019.1686412
- Markiewitz, A., Arendt, F., & Scherr, S. (2020). #suizid: Zur Darstellung von Suizid in sozialen Netzwerken und den m?glichen Auswirkungen auf Jugendliche [#suicide: Suicide on social media, and possible effects on young users]. KJug – Kinder und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis, 65(1), 19–25.
Books
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- Scherr, S. (2016). Depression – 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien – Suizid: Zur empirischen Relevanz von Depressionen und 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien für die Suizidalit?t [Depression – media – suicide: On the empirical relevance of depression and media for suicidality]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
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Curriculum Vitae
Sebastian Scherr (Ph.D., Universit?t München) ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Digital Health Communication am Institut für 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ien, Wissen und Kommunikation der Universit?t Augsburg. Seine?Forschung und Lehre konzentrieren?sich auf individuelle und strukturelle Einflussfaktoren?für 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】ienwirkungen im Gesundheitsbereich?mit einem thematischen?Schwerpunkt auf?psychischer Gesundheit, Well-Being, Suizidpr?vention und empirischen Methoden.?