🚨New publication in SSCR

Are you collecting/analyzing/archiving digital trace data and are you interested in data quality (you should be😉)? We might have something for you: doi.org/10.1177/089443…

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Job alert: Interested in (designed) digital data, e.g. from web trackers or Smartphones? Please consider applying for this PostDoc position (with possible tenure) at #CSS GESIS:
hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…
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2 student assistant positions at the Computational Social Science department at GESIS in Köln: first one is a student assistant to support a new publication format 'GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data': hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…

Also my colleagues at the Computational Social Science Department at GESIS in Köln are looking for a postdoc in social data science. Super cool team and a 4 year position with possible tenure: hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…

#DGPuK2024
Um 11 Uhr startet die Session ' #Data , #Archive & #Tool Demos'. Mit Johannes Breuer @[email protected] und Julian Kohne | juliankohne.bsky.social von GESIS. Im Anschluss kann man sich am GESIS-Stand umfassend weiter informieren!
conftool.pro/dgpuk2024/inde…

#DGPuK2024 -Themen: Rechts-extreme Online-Kommunikation, Besser leben mit Algorithmen, Sekundäranalysen – Data Sharing. Wir haben die Survey- und Online-Daten, Methoden und Tools. Fragen? Besuchen Sie unseren Stand.

Guest Researchers WANTED! Elevate your research project with a special focus on data quality!  Join us for a research stay at @GESIS, Uni Mannheim or @LMU in unraveling the untapped potential of survey and digital behavioral data.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2024

Excited to announce the accepted tutorials for this year! 👩‍🏫
One more day to get ready for your #IC2S2 abstract submission‼️and join us in July 🌸

We started the #DSA40 Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Lukas Seiling / @[email protected] European New School @[email protected] Weizenbaum-Institut
soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati…

Congratulations Nora Kirkizh for publishing your last Ph.D. thesis paper! Good luck and lots of energy for the last couple of weeks of your (part time) graduate student life!
w/ Roberto Ulloa and Sebastian Stier

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#webtracking #gor24
Are you interested in web tracking studies? Check out the talk 'Willingness to participate in passive data collection studies' by our colleagues at GESIS today from 5:00pm - 6:00pm:
tinyurl.com/28avafxr

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Join us in forecasting the next federal election, and in finding out what forecasts do to voters and candidates! Plus, do a PhD at the Data Science Lab in Berlin. DM me for any questions.

Being a winner or loser of globalisation is a stronger predictor of EU support than living in a left-behind place. Residents of the same region with different levels of education DO NOT converge in their EU support due to geography #political #geography

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨with Sebastian Stier Ana S. Cardenal Andy Guess Ericka Menchen-Trevino Magdalena Wojcieszak in the Social Science Computer Review

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

How does the journalistic practice of referencing social media posts in news articles affect the deliberative quality of news in- and outside election campaigns?

Teresa Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social Sebastian Stier Tanjev Schultz and I answer this RQ in a new pub: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📣 We are thrilled to announce that Gabriella Lapesa will join the tada.cool speaker series 🕔 this Wednesday (Feb 7, 5pm CET) for a talk on 'NLP-supported (e-)deliberation: interdisciplinary challenges and real-world applications'. Find all the details on Slack ⬇️

Interested in Understanding & Addressing Bias in #CSS ?

✨New paper out in Communication Methods & Measures: „Misclassification in Automated Content Analysis Causes Bias in Regression. Can We Fix It? Yes, We Can.“ (with Nate TeBlunthuis & @[email protected] )

👉doi.org/10.1080/193124…

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely:

In a survey-experiment Adrian Rauchfleisch and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🧵

🎉New (open access) publication in PSRM Journal
with Marius Sältzer 🎉

We show that Democratic candidates communicate more liberal positions in contested congressional primaries & moderate if they lose the nomination. Republicans don't do this!

doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

🥳 Our (Christian Montag) ChatDashboard paper is out now in Behavior Research Methods! In it, we present our tools for collecting and processing donated #WhatsApp chat log data. It includes an R-package, a Shiny app and a testing script. Paper: rdcu.be/dvqle