dr. Philipp K. Masur

Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Communication Science

Associate Professor, Network Institute

Associate Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC)

Personal information

Philipp Masur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Managing Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab. He is also the chair of the Research Ethics Review Committee (RERC) of the faculty of social sciences. He has studied communication science, economic sciences, and philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) and the Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). He earned his PhD in the social sciences at the University of Hohenheim in 2018. He has previously worked at departments of communication at the University of Hohenheim and the University of Mainz and was a visiting scholar at the Cornell University.

You can find more information on his personal website: www.philippmasur.de

Research

Philipp’s research focuses on different aspects of digital communication and the impact of social media on our daily lives. It is characterized by interdisciplinary perspectives and a variety of methodological approaches, including survey, experimental, and computational methods. More specifically, he studies social influence and persuasion processes on social media, privacy and self-disclosure in networked publics, different types of media literacies, and social media use effects on individual well-being. In his current work, he investigates behavioral contagion and social norm processes on social media. This project is funded through an Innovation Grant (VENI) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). He is further interested in meta-scientific questions related to open science, transparency, and replication.

Teaching