Peer reviewed journal articles (17)

17. Stevic, A., Schmuck, D., Koemets, A., Hirsch, M., Karsay, K., Thomas, M., & Matthes, J. (accepted). Privacy concerns can stress you out: Investigating the reciprocal relationship between mobile social media privacy concerns and perceived stress. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research.

16. Stevic, A., Schmuck, Karsay, K., & Matthes, J. (2021). Are smartphones enhancing or displacing face-to-face communication with close ties? A panel study among adults, 16, International Journal of Communication. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/14796

15. Karsay, K., Trekels, J, Eggermont, S., & Vandenbosch, L. (2021). “I (don’t) respect my body”: Investigating the role of media use and self-objectification on adolescents’ positive body image in a cross-national study. Mass Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1827432

14. Stevic, A., Schmuck, D., Matthes, J., & Karsay, K. (2021). ‘Age matters’: A panel study investigating the influence of communicative and passive smartphone use on well-being. Behaviour & Information Technology. 40(2), 176–190. https://doi.org/080/0144929X.2019.1680732

13. Karsay, K., & Matthes, J. (2020). Sexualizing pop music videos, self-objectification, and selective exposure: A moderated mediation model. Communication Research, 47, 428–450. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650216661434

12. Karsay, K., Matthes, J., & Fröhlich, V. (2020). Gender role portrayals in television advertisements: Do channel characteristics matter? Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research, 45, 28–52. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2055

11. de Lenne, O., Vandenbosch, L., Eggermont S., Karsay, K., & Trekels, T. (2020). Picture-perfect lives on social media: A cross-national study on the role of media ideals in adolescent well-being. Media Psychology, 23, 52–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1554494

10. Matthes, J., Karsay, K., Schmuck, D., &, Stevic, A. (2019). “Too much to handle”: Impact of mobile social networking sites on information overload, depressive symptoms, and well-being. Computers in Human Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106217

9. Karsay, K., Schmuck, D., Matthes, J. &, Stevic, A. (2019). Longitudinal effects of excessive smartphone use on stress and loneliness: The moderating role of self-disclosure. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22, 706–713. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0255

8. Schmuck, D., Karsay, K., Matthes, J., & Stevic, A. (2019). “Looking up and feeling down” The influence of mobile social networking site use on upward social comparison, self-esteem, and well-being of adult smartphone users. Telematics and Informatics, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2019.101240

7. Karsay, K., Matthes, J., Buchsteiner, L. & Grosser, V. (2019). Increasingly sexy? Sexuality and sexual objectification in popular music videos, 1995-2016. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8, 346–357. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000221

6. Karsay, K., & Schmuck, D. (2019). “Weak, sad, and lazy fatties”: Adolescents’ explicit and implicit weight bias following exposure to weight loss reality TV shows. Media Psychology, 22, 60–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2017.1396903

5. Trekels, J., Karsay, K., Vandenbosch, L., & Eggermont, S. (2018). How mass media relate to youth’s self-sexualization: Taking a cross-national perspective on rewarded appearance ideals.Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 1440–1455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0844-3

4. Karsay, K., Knoll, J., & Matthes, J. (2018). Sexualizing media use and self-objectification: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42, 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684317743019

3. Spielvogel, I., Matthes, J., Naderer, B., & Karsay, K. (2018). A treat for the eyes. Measuring children’s cue reactivity by attentional differences toward unhealthy and healthy food cues in media content. Appetite, 125, 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.01.033

2. Karsay, K., Matthes, J., Platzer, P., & Plinke, M. (2018). Adopting the objectifying gaze: Exposure to sexually objectifying music videos and subsequent gazing behavior. Media Psychology, 21, 27–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2017.1378110

1. Arendt, F., Karsay, K., & Soffried, T. (2016): Werbung mit idealisierten Körperdarstellungen: Effekte auf die Unzufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Körper und die Ablehnung von Schönheitsoperationen [Advertising with idealized body images: Effects on body dissatisfaction and rejection of cosmetic surgery]. Medien Journal, 40, 29–42. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v40i1.35

Book chapters and other publications (8)

8. Rasmussen, Eric E., & Karsay, K. (accepted). Media and children’s social development. In: P. K. Smith, & C. H. Hart (Eds.): Handbook of Childhood Social Development, 3^rd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.

7. Karsay, K. (2020). Objectification. In J. Van den Bulck, D. Ewoldsen, E. Scharrer, & L. Mares (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. ICAZ/Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0141

6. Karsay, K. (2018). Objekte der Begierde. Inhalt und Wirkungen sexualisierender Medien. [Objects of Desire. Content and Effects of Sexualizing Media.] Unpublished Dissertation, University of Vienna.

5. Naderer, B., & Karsay, K. (2018). Detecting the persuasive intent of product placement in photographic love stories: Consequences for brand recall and brand evaluation. In R. Kühne, S. Baumgartner, T. Koch, & M. Hofer (Eds.), Youth and Media: Current Perspectives on Media Use and Effects (pp. 115–131). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845280455-115

4. Karsay, K. (2017). Construct. In J. Matthes, R. Potter & C. S. Davis (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118901731.iecrm0042

3. Karsay, K. & Stoisser, F. (2017). “Sexy and I know it” – Effekte sexualisierter Musikvideos auf die Selbst-Objektifizierung und Selbst-Sexualisierung junger Frauen [“Sexy and I know it” – Effects of Sexualizing music videos on young women’s self-objectification and self-sexualization].In B. Metzler, J. Himmelsbach, D., Bertel, A. Riedl, A., & L. Möller (Eds.), Von der Reflexion zur Dekonstruktion? Kategorien, Typen und Stereoype als Gegenstand junger Forschung. Beiträge zur zweiten under.docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation (pp. 175–192). Wien: danzig & unfried.

2. Grill, C., & Karsay, K. (2016). Twitter et les élections européennes. Une comparaison des agendas politiques en ligne dans huit États membres de l’Union européenne [Tweeting about the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. Comparing the political online agendas in eight EU-member states]. In P. Maarek (Eds.), La communication politique des Européenes de 2014: pour ou contre l’Europe? (pp. 76–97). Paris: L’Harmattan.

1. Haas, H., Herczeg, P., & Karsay, K. (2015). Werbung – Ethik – Moral [Advertising – ethics – morality]. In G. Siegert, W. Wirth, P. Weber, & J. Lischka, (Eds.), Handbuch Werbeforschung(pp. 57–77). Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18916-1_3