Currently, the following externally funded projects are being carried out by the research group:
- Information use in the Corona crisis: two wave panel survey on peoples' information use and perceptions in the Corona crisis
- Wage disputes in the media: Quantitative content analysis of the media coverage about selected wage disputes in Germany
- DFG-Project: From News Values to Discussion Values: Causes, Conditions and Effects of media-stimulated interpersonal communication on News Websites (until 2016)
- BMBF Research Cooperation: Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement – Between Planned Knowledge Transfer and Not Intended Repercussions (until 2016)