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Psychology of Communication and New Media

Funding Success: New Research Training Group on Experiencing Stories in Digital Environments Approved!

08/11/2025

How do we experience stories in digital worlds? This question will be the focus of the newly approved research training group "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age (TESDA)". Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Markus Appel and Dr. Julia Winkler, the interdisciplinary project will start on April 1, 2026, and will be funded for an initial period of five years.

The chair is significantly involved in the DFG-approved research training group "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age (TESDA)". The project will start on April 1, 2026, with funding initially granted for five years. Prof. Dr. Markus Appel will be the spokesperson of the project with Dr. Julia Winkler as one of the principal investigators. Additional collaborators include Professor Marc Erich Latoschik (Human-Computer Interaction), Professor Birgit Lugrin (Socially Interactive Agents), Professor Gerhild Nieding (Developmental Psychology), Professor Tobias Richter (Educational Psychology), and Professor Holger Schramm (Media and Business Communication).

Read more: https://www.mcm.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/meldungen/single/news/millionenfoerderung-fuer-neues-graduiertenkolleg-2/

https://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press-releases/2025/press-release-no-15

 

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