Biography

Thilo von Pape is a full professor of communication and media sciences. His work focuses on the uses of digital communication technologies and mobile media as well as on media innovations. He is co-founder of the journal Mobile Media & Communication and co-editor of the Journal "Studies in Communication Sciences" (SComS).
Prof. von Pape was a associate professor at the University of Franche-Comté and a researcher at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and the University of Zurich. He made his Ph.D. in communication science at the University of Zurich.

Research and publications

• Publications
  68 publications

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  Editorial
  Philipp Bachmann, Thilo Von Pape, Studies in Communication Sciences (2025) | Journal article

  Micromobility
  von Pape, Thilo (2025) | Book chapter

  Introduction
  Thilo von Pape, Veronika Karnowski (2024) | Book chapter

  The Mobile Media Debate: Challenging Viewpoints Across Epistemologies
  Thilo von Pape, Veronika Karnowski (2024) | Book

  An Integrative Conception of Micromobility: Its Technical Tendency, Its Appropriation, and the Role of Mobile Interfaces
  von Pape, Thilo and Domenget, Jean-Claude and Equoy-Hutin, Séverine and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie and Buhler, Thomas, International Journal of Communication (2024) | Journal article

  Editorial
  von Pape, Thilo, Fürst, Silke, Meißner, Mike (2024) | Other

  An Integrative Conception of Micromobility: Its Technical Tendency, Its Appropriation, and the Role of Mobile Interfaces
  Thilo von Pape, Jean-Claude Domenget, Séverine Equoy-Hutin, Sophie Mariani-Rousset, Thomas Buhler, (2024) | Journal article

  AIGAIT - Appropriation of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools ...
  Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo, (2024) | Journal article

  Filmer la pratique des cyclistes pour concevoir une interface de vélomobilité
  Domenget, Jean-Claude and von Pape, Thilo and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie, Ténérife, Iles Canaries, Spain: (15.11.2023) | Conference

  Editorial
  Silke Fürst, Thilo von Pape, Mike Meißner, (2023) | Journal article

  Autonomous Vehicles: Where Automation Ends and the Communication Begins
  von Pape, Thilo (2023) | Book chapter

  Editorial
  Fürst, Silke, von Pape, Thilo, Meißner, Mike (2023) | Other

  Editorial
  von Pape, Thilo, Fürst, Silke, Meißner, Mike (2022) | Other

  Business as usual? Taking stock of submissions and reviews two years after the first coronavirus lockdowns
  Karnowski, Veronika, Pape, Thilo von, (2022) | Journal article

  Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cyclists. On compensation effects between risk taking, safety equipment and secondary tasks
  Thomas Buhler, Emeline Comby, Lise Vaudor, Thilo von Pape, Journal of Transport & Health (2021) | Journal article

  Interfaces info-communicationnelles de la micromobilité : une approche socio-technique.
  von Pape, Thilo and Domenget, Jean-Claude and Equoy Hutin, Séverine and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie and Buhler, Thomas, Grenoble, France: (9.6.2021) | Conference

  Conceptualizing micromobility: its technical essence, its appropriation, and the role of mobile interfaces
  von Pape, Thilo and Domenget, Jean-Claude and Equoy Hutin, Séverine and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie and Buhler, Thomas, virtual conference, France: (27.5.2021) | Conference

  Communication, territoire et micromobilité : vers un modèle d’analyse des interfaces info-communicationnelles
  von Pape, Thilo and Domenget, Jean-Claude and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie and Equoy Hutin, Séverine, Echirolles, France: (1.2021) | Conference

  Communication, territoire et micromobilité : vers un modèle d’analyse des interfaces info-communicationnelles
  von Pape, Thilo and Domenget, Jean-Claude and Mariani-Rousset, Sophie, Echirolles, France: (1.2021) | Conference

  Autonomous Vehicles in the Mobility System
  von Pape, Thilo (2020) | Book chapter

  Cars and Contemporary Communication: Machine, Medium, Mobility – Introduction
  von Pape, Thilo, Goggin, Gerard, Forlano, Laura, (2019) | Journal article

  Cars and Contemporary Communication: Machine, Medium, Mobility – Introduction
  Thilo von Pape, Gerard Goggin, Laura Forlano, (2019) | Journal article

  Cars and Contemporary Communication: Machine, Medium, Mobility – Introduction
  Thilo von Pape, Gerard Goggin, Laura Forlano, (2019) | Journal article

  Smartphones as Metamedia: A Framework for Identifying the Niches Structuring Smartphone Use
  Lee Humphreys, Veronika Karnowski, Thilo von Pape, (2018) | Journal article

  Smartphones as Metamedia: A Framework for Identifying the Niches Structuring Smartphone Use
  Lee Humphreys, Veronika Karnowski, Thilo von Pape, (2018) | Journal article

  Smartphones as Metamedia ... : A Framework to Identify the Niches Structuring Smartphone Use ...
  Lee, Humphreys, Karnowski, Veronika, Pape, Thilo von, (2018) | Journal article

  What really matters is what you like not what you are like. Self-positioning through cultural capital in the social web
  von Pape, Thilo, Düsseldorf, Germany: (12.2017) | Conference

  A Privacy Aware Data Access System for Automotive Applications
  Zelle, Daniel and Krauss, Daniel and von Pape, Thilo, Berlin, Germany: (11.2017) | Conference

  Privacy by disaster? Press coverage of privacy and digital technology
  von Pape, Thilo and Trepte, Sabine and Mothes, Cornelia, European Journal of Communication (2017) | Journal article

  The Dogs May Bark About Privacy, But Adoption Moves on: Effects of Communication on the Adoption and Use of Wearable Technologies
  Braun, M. and Trepte, S. and von Pape, Thilo, San Diago, United States: (5.2017) | Conference

  Effects of privacy mechanisms on self-disclosure and success in Web search
  von Pape, Thilo and Hiller, L., San Diego, United States: (5.2017) | Conference

  Sampling, Online , in The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods
  von Pape, Thilo (2017) | Book chapter

  Living in the Moment. Self-Narratives of Permanently Connected Media Users
  von Pape, Thilo, Living in the Moment. Self-Narratives of Permanently Connected Media Users (2017) | Journal article

  Sampling, Online
  Von Pape, Thilo (2017) | Other

  Selbstdatenschutz im vernetzten Fahrzeug: Eine Datenschutzlösung unter Berücksichtigung der technischen, rechtlichen und Nutzeranforderungen
  Krauß, Christoph, Pape, Thilo von, Robrahn, Rasmus, Zelle, Daniel, (2017) | Journal article

  An English scale for measuring mobile phone appropriation: Translation and assessment
  Sun Kyong Lee, Veronika Karnowski, Thilo von Pape, Ioana A. Cionea, (2017) | Journal article

  Living in the Moment
  von Pape, Thilo (2017) | Book chapter

  Do-It-Yourself Data Protection—Empowerment or Burden?
  Matzner, Tobias, Masur, Philipp K., Ochs, Carsten, von Pape, Thilo (2016) | Book chapter

  Knop, Karin, Hefner, Dorothée, Schmitt, Stefanie und Peter Vorderer: Mediatisierung mobil. Handy- und mobile Internetnutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. ; Leipzig: VISTAS 2015 (= Schriftenreihe Medienforschung der Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen; Bd. 77). 352 Seiten. Preis: € 22,0.
  von Pape, Thilo, (2016) | Journal article

  Success in online searches: Differences between evaluation and finding tasks
  Wirth, Werner, Sommer, Katharina, von Pape, Thilo, Karnowski, Veronika, (2015) | Journal article

  Twitter, un média pour la communication transfrontalière des événements locaux ? Une approche empirique exploratoire
  von Pape, Thilo, Scharkow, Michael (2015) | Book chapter

  Privatheit in den Medien: Berichterstattung zum Thema Privatheit und Internet in deutschen Medien
  Mothes, Cornelia, von Pape, Thilo, Trepte, Sabine (2015) | Other

  Twitter, un média pour la communication transfrontalière des événements locaux ? Une approche empirique exploratoire
  von Pape, Thilo, Scharkow, Michael (2015) | Book chapter

  Thorsten Quandt / Jürgen Wilke / Christine Heimprecht / Thilo von Pape (2014): Fernsehwelten. Auslandsnachrichten im deutschen Fernsehen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS
  Maurer, Peter, Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (2014) | Journal article

  Evolving mobile media ecology: Uses and conceptualizations of the mobile Internet by American and German college students
  Humphreys, Lee and von Pape, Thilo and Karnowski, Veronika, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2013) | Journal article

  The development of video game enjoyment in a role playing game
  Wirth, Werner, Ryffel, Fabian, von Pape, Thilo, Karnowski, Veronika, (2013) | Journal article

  The Development of Video Game Enjoyment in a Role Playing Game
  Wirth, Werner, Ryffel, Fabian, von Pape, Thilo, Karnowski, Veronika, (2013) | Journal article

  Die Inhalte
  Quandt, Thorsten, Wilke, Jürgen, Heimprecht, Christine, von Pape, Thilo (2013) | Book chapter

  Introducing Mobile Media & Communication
  Ling, Richard, Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo, Jones, Steve, (2013) | Journal article

  Images in Mobile Communication: New Content, New Uses, New Perspectives
  Martin, Corinne and von Pape, Thilo (VS Verlag, 2012) | Book

  Non-usages du téléphone portable : au-delà d’une opposition binaire usagers/non-usagers
  Pape, Thilo von, Martin, Corinne, (2012) | Journal article

  Thorsten Quandt, Jeffrey Wimmer, Jens Wolling, Hrsg, Die Computerspieler. Studien zur Nutzung von Computergames
  Moehle, Nike, von Pape, Thilo (2012) | Other

  Which Place for Mobile Television in Everyday Life?
  von Pape, Thilo, Karnowski, Veronika (2012) | Book chapter

  Emotionen, die hochkochen? Zum Einfluss von Rezeptionsemotionen auf die Härte von Strafeinstellungen
  Thilo, von Pape, Vincent, Meyer (2011) | Book chapter

  Living in the Mediatope: A Multimethod Study on the Evolution of Media Technologies in the Domestic Environment
  Quandt, Thorsten, Pape, Thilo von, (2010) | Journal article

  "Fernseher wirken wie Altare" : Gespräch mit dem Medienwissenschaftler Thilo von Pape ...
  Krucker, Daniel, Pape, Thilo von, (2009) | Journal article

  Mobile TV im Alltag der Nutzer. Ergebnisse einer dreimonatigen Panalstudie ...
  Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo (2009) | Other

  MobileTV im Alltag der Nutzer: Ergebnisse einer dreimonatigen Panelstudie
  Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo (2009) | Book chapter

  Media Adoption and Diffusion ...
  von Pape, Thilo (2009) | Other

  "Fernseher wirken wie Altare" : Gespräch mit dem Medienwissenschaftler Thilo von Pape
  Krucker, Daniel, Pape, Thilo von, (2009) | Journal article

  Media Adoption and Diffusion
  von Pape, Thilo (2009) | Book chapter

  Aneignung neuer Kommunikationstechnologien in sozialen Netzwerken
  von Pape, Thilo (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008), ISBN: 9783531912141 | Book

  Ein integratives Modell der Aneignung mobiler Kommunikationsdienste , in Die digitale Herausforderung
  Wirth, Werner and von Pape, Thilo and Karnowski, Veronika (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007), ISBN: 9783531906492 | Book chapter

  Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines
  Wirth, Werner, Böcking, Tabea, Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo, (2007) | Journal article

  Rilke im digitalen Alltag – eine lesebiographische Studie
  von Pape, Thilo, Pfaff, Senta (2007) | Book chapter

  Ein integratives Modell der Aneignung mobiler Kommunikationsdienste ...
  Wirth, Werner, von Pape, Thilo, Karnowski, Veronika (2007) | Other

  Zur Diffusion Neuer Medien: Kritische Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Ansätze und Überlegungen zu einer integrativen Diffusions- und Aneignungstheorie Neuer Medien
  Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo, Wirth, Werner, (2006) | Journal article

  Zur Diffusion Neuer Medien: Kritische Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Ansätze und Überlegungen zu einer integrativen Diffusions- und Aneignungstheorie Neuer Medien
  Karnowski, Veronika, von Pape, Thilo, Wirth, Werner, (2006) | Journal article

Teaching and courses

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