Awards & Acknowledgments
- 2025, June
Reviewer of the Year Award for the Journal Mass Communication and Society in 2024.
- 2025, June
Top Faculty Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Children, Adolescents and Media Division. 75th Annual ICA Conference, Denver, USA.
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.
- 2025, February
Best Article Award of a Young Scholar in the Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap
Awarded to Lucie Wittner Franckx (supervised by Brahim Zarouali and Desiree Schmuck)
- 2022, October
Top Abstract Award, German Communication Association (DGPuK), Advertising Division
- 2022, January
AEJMC Emerging Scholar Award; Total: 3,460.90 USD
- 2021, May
Top Student-Led Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Intergroup Communication Division
- 2020, September
Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich), Research Seminar
- 2020, September
Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich), Statistical Data Analysis
- 2020, March
Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich); Best evaluated (Top 1) course at the Department of Communication of the LMU Munich in the Winter term 2019/20, Research Seminar
- 2019, August
Gene Burd Top Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Communication and Technology Division; Total: 1,000 USD
- 2019, May
Top Faculty Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Journalism Studies Division
- 2018, March
Doc.Award 2018 of the City of Vienna and the University of Vienna; Total: 1,500 EUR
- 2018, August
Top Paper Award for the best paper published in Mass Communication and Society in 2017 for the article 'Muslims are not terrorists': Islamic State coverage, journalistic differentiation between terrorism and Islam, fear reactions, and attitudes toward Muslims
- 2017, August
Top 1 Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Political Communication Interest Group
- 2017, August
Top 1 Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Political Communication Interest Group
- 2017, August
Top 3 Student Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Communication Theory and Methodology Division
- 2017, May
Top Student Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Communication and Technology Division
- 2016, June
Top 1 Student Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Environmental Communication Division
- 2015, May
Top 3 Faculty Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Mass Communication Division
- 2013, August
Top 3 Faculty Research Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Advertising Division