Lisa Weidmüller

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
NameMs Lisa Weidmüller M.A.
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Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg, Raum A257a Zellescher Weg 17
01069 Dresden
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since 10/2017 |
Research Associate and doctoral student at the Institute of Media and Communication, Chair of Science and Technology Communication (Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser), TU Dresden, Germany |
02/2019 |
Research visit at the Robotics Lab of the Heriot-Watt-University, Edinburgh, Great Britain |
04/2017 |
Master's thesis on "News quality from the user's point of view - influences and developments" Supervisors: Dr. Anna-Maria Schielicke & Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen |
01/2017 - 04/2017 | Research Assistant in the experimental laboratory of the Center for Methods in the Social Sciences (ZSM), TU Dresden |
02/2016 - 12/2016 |
Research Assistant at the Institute of Media and Communication, Chair of Political and Business Communication, TU Dresden (Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen) |
08/2015 - 02/2016 |
ERASMUS stay at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden |
10/2014 - 04/2017 |
Master's degree program "Applied Media Research" |
09/2014 |
Bachelor's thesis on "The 'reading value' of the daily newspaper. A usage study based on the political and regional section of the Sächsische Zeitung" |
10/2011 - 09/2014 |
Bachelor's degree program "Media Practice/Media Research"at the Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden: Media and opinion research; supplementary area: Media Computer Science |
- Technology communication (e.g., perception, trustworthiness and acceptance of new information intermediaries and technologies)
- Science communication (impact of different formats, e.g. science comics, demonstrators; trust in science)
- Media use & impact research
Bobbe, T., Weidmüller, L., Engesser, S., & Krzywinski, J. (2024, preprint). Interaction and Affect is Key: Understanding Technology Demonstrators for Science Communication on Dialogue Events. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/h4b3g
Engesser, S., Weidmüller, L., & Hagen, L. M. (2021). Public Opinion and the Tactile Internet. In F. H. P. Fitzek, S.-C. Li, S. Speidel, T. Strufe, M. Şimşek, & M. Reisslein (Eds.), Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (pp. 385–402). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821343-8.00029-0
Weidmüller, L. & Engesser, S. (2024). Oldies but goldies? Comparing the trustworthiness and credibility of ‘new’ and ‘old’ information intermediaries. Communications. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2023-0020
Weidmüller, L. (2022). Human, hybrid, or machine? Exploring the trustworthiness of voice-based assistants. Human-machine communication, 4, 85-110. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.4.5
Weidmüller, L., Etzrodt, K. & Engesser, S. (2022). Trustworthiness of voice-based assistants: Integrating interlocutor and intermediary predictors. Publizistik, 67, 625–651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00763-7
Weidmüller, L., Etzrodt, E., Löcherbach, F. Möller, J., & Engesser, S. (2021). Ich höre was, was du nicht hörst. Medienvielfalt und Transparenz bei Sprachassistenten. Report commissioned by the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia. Link
since 2018: Dissertation project "The trustworthiness of voice-based assistants as information intermediaries" (working title)
2021: SAMT
Preparation of an expert report on the role of voice assistants with regard to media diversity and source transparency (PI: Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser) on behalf of the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia
2019 - 2021: CeTI - ETAC
Cluster of Excellence "Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop" (CeTI) in the project module "Ethical Implications of the Tactile Internet" (ETAC, PI: Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser), funded by the DFG Excellence Initiative
2015 - 2017: HELIOS
Research projects "HELIOS" and "HELIOS II" (PI: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen) on behalf of Helios Kliniken GmbH
Science & technology communication
since 2021 |
Research project / theory seminars "Science and Technology Communication" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
2021 | Research project seminar "Similarity and Trustworthiness of Artificial Agents" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden, together with Katrin Etzrodt |
Research methods
2025 | Seminar "Applied Scientific Project Management" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
2018 - 2020 |
Seminar "Content Analysis" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
2018 - 2020 |
Repetitorium for Master's students "Scientific Project Management" (MA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
2017 - 2019 | Tutorial "Scientific Project Management" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
Audience research
2019/20 | Seminar "Market-Media Studies" (BA), Institute ofMedia and Communication, TU Dresden |