Awards & Acknowledgments

• Top Faculty Paper Award
  Harff, D., Van Houtven, E., Dekoninck, H., & Schmuck, D. (June, 2025). Adolescents’ Trust in Political Content from Influencers: The Roles of Motive Attribution and Parental Mediation [Conference presentation]. Top Faculty Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Children, Adolescents and Media Division. 75th Annual ICA Conference, Denver, USA. 

• Best Abstract Award
  Harff, D., & Le, D. P. N. (2024, November 27–29). “Don’t buy it!” Influencers’ negative product reviews and their effects on young adults [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the DGPuK’s Advertising Communication Division, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Best Abstract Award
  Harff, D., & Schmuck, D. (2022, October 6–8). Policy, lifestyle, fake news? A content analysis of political (mis-)information by influencers [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the DGPuK’s Advertising Communication Division, Cluj, Romania.