GRK 1712: Trust and Communication in a Digitised World

研究培训小组研究如何在新的沟通形式的背景下发展和保持信任。信任是信任主体与信任客体之间的一种状态、过程和关系。数字化的沟通方式改变了信任的结构和可持续性，因为首先，熟悉的面对面沟通被数字化的互动所取代，其次，虚拟社交和办公网络出现，最后，因为公众，组织和个人之间的新形式的关系发展。研究培训小组通过四个典型领域的例子分析了这些过程对建立信任关系的影响：媒体，经济，科学和体育。在这些研究领域确定的具体信任问题的基础上，博士研究人员在三个分析层面上调查信任问题：个人，组织和公共领域。为了研究信任和沟通的概念在重叠的研究领域和维度，学者从传播学，经济学，信息系统，心理学和体育科学领域的跨学科研究计划的框架内合作。使用几个社会科学的方法（如实验，访谈，内容分析，观察，人工设计）的研究培训小组，从而研究个人，组织和社会的信任建立过程。除了产生实证结果外，研究培训小组的目的是提供新的方法学见解（例如，开发新的量表，测试研究设计等）并为信任研究的不同领域提供理论基础。考虑到研究生课程的跨学科方法，每个论文项目由至少两名来自合作学科的研究人员组成的团队监督。该研究计划旨在传达一个共同的基本理论和方法的理解。此外，研讨会、讲习班和会议为初级研究人员进行教学和研究做好准备。每个博士研究员还分配了一名国际导师。

The Research Training Group examines how trust can be developed and maintained against the backdrop of the contexts of new forms of communication. Trust is regarded as a state, process and relationship between the subjects and objects of trust. Digitised means of communication change the structure and sustainability of trust because, firstly, familiar face-to-face communication is replaced by digitised interactions, secondly, virtual social and office networks emerge and, finally, because new forms of relationships between the public, organisations and individuals develop. The Research Training Group analyses the consequences of these processes for the establishment of trust relationships by the example of four prototypical areas: media, economy, science and sports. On the basis of specific trust problems identified for these fields of research, the doctoral researchers investigate questions of trust at three analytical levels: individuals, organisations and the public sphere. In order to examine the concepts of trust and communication in the overlapping research areas and dimensions, scholars from the field of communication studies, economics, information systems, psychology and sports science cooperate within the framework of the interdisciplinary research programme. Using several social science methods (such as experiment, interview, content analysis, observation, artifact design) the Research Training Group thereby studies individual, organisational and social trust-building processes. Besides generating empirical results, the aim of the Research Training Group is to offer new methodological insights (e.g., development of new scales, testing of research designs, etc.) and to provide a theoretical foundation for the disparate field of trust research. Taking into account the interdisciplinary approach of the postgraduate course, each dissertation project is supervised by a team of at least two researchers from the cooperating disciplines. The study programme intends to convey a common fundamental theoretical and methodological understanding. Furthermore, seminars, workshops and conferences prepare the junior researchers for teaching and research. Each doctoral researcher is also allocated an international mentor.