@lionw.bsky.social
Researching @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Computational Social Science | cu @ICA25 & IC2S2
#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025
@lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
#datadonationsymposium2025 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
@dscheykopp.bsky.social @lboeschoten.bsky.social
@antmandan.bsky.social
On the myth of the need for representative samples, public partnership recruiting, the value of specialty samples, and a value proposition to the public as an incentive.
Has anyone else recently received a reply from the #tiktok research API support team after just 6 months?
They transitioned to a new communication system.
God knows how that company is still running if they could not communicate for 6 months, or could they π.
#capitalistprioritiesarewild
... but we shall not lose all scientific care and scrutiny build up in centuries of methods research just to be the first one that used something new to do something old.
Cheers to the old, the new, and what we decide to make out of it.
Goodbye ZΓΌrich once again.
It was an absolute pleasure to engage with the participating scholars on visual communication at the Computational Visual Communication Research Symposium organized beautifully by Meg Jing Zeng.
Take away - LLMs are too good and convenient to avoid them ...
True words! Explainable "AI"/understanding how "AI" is reasoning is not just the answer, it just might open up a new venue of issues - what do we do with a reasoning that is unreasonable to us, but where the outcome is "right"?
05.08.2025 21:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I put together a list of scholars speaking at the Computational Visual Media Research Symposium in ZΓΌrich today.
Maybe interesting for some of you. Let me know if I missed you/isn't find you!
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Really excited to also present this work at #IC2S2 next week in NorrkΓΆping! π I'd love to discuss how to produce LLM survey responses at my poster on Wed at 13:30 (Poster Session 2, Poster ID 68) π
18.07.2025 15:19 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Loving @ic2s2.bsky.social , but I wonder if we're asking the right questions. Is "How can I outsource this task to a proprietary, black box, resource-intensive, often un-validated LLM?" when fit-for-purpose classifiers abound a computational a computational research question? Or even scientific?
23.07.2025 15:54 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0#ic2s2
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@ic2s2.bsky.social
Thought provoking keynote by Arnout van de Rijt!
What's a better proxy for economic success over lifetime - wage rank or wealth?
Wealth might show the exact opposite results, with wage being rather another (un)lucky event instead of an outcome of the other (un)lucky events.
Poster presentation at #ic2s2 done. Inspiring talks and a sore throat come hand in hand.
Looking forward to the remaining days!
"From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere." We spoke to @lionw.bsky.social & Linda Coufal about how extremist views take hold and spread within digital communities: π t1p.de/sqii5
#DigitalExtremism #OnlineHate #PlatformAccountability #Misogyny
#ic2s2 getting started!
A grand hall for a grand opening.
Unsurprisingly LLMs make up their own strong topic among conference presentations. But amazing to see that CSS still maintains an identity and topical diversity beyond that!
@ic2s2.bsky.social
A curious way to make use of so called AI for a change!
Participation encouraged!
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
21.07.2025 14:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#IC2S2: Join me tomorrow at my poster on how to measure information use on social media in #DataDonations! π
Survey development, panel study, digital trace data, TikTok, and multimodal classificationβit has it all! π’
Perhaps we can even debunk the myth that the youth aren't informed no more π.
βWer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern mussβ β
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:
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#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
π’ Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) β a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is
15.06.2025 21:53 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
More on data donation and tracking data. Donβt miss this panel #ica25
@ernesto-deleon.com @dougaparry.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social Yangliu Fan @lionw.bsky.social & more
@ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
At the 9am Sunday #ica25 panel, Felix Gaisbauer @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social presented work showing that news sharing on platforms in the German context is less fragmented and highly driven by intermediaries from the political right
Find method preprint here: arxiv.org/html/2505.08...
@atmayer.bsky.social with another π₯ presentation at #ica25 How do news values and visual representations of news differ between public and private news media on TikTok?
Dataset paper on this out now!
doi.org/10.1609/icws...
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@jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social !
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
@atmayer.bsky.social rocking the stage at #ica25 . Presenting work on identifying (non-)intermediation practices of digital journalists on social media. #silentintermediation
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this yearβs #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and weβre proud to say that weβve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see yβall at #ica25 β¨
12.06.2025 23:14 β π 40 π 18 π¬ 1 π 3πDay 1 at #ICA25 for our Digital News Dynamics team:
π 12:00 | @lionw.bsky.social & Jakob Ohme
π§Ή User Deletion & Data Quality in Data Donation Studies
π Capitol 3
π 15:00 | @atmayer.bsky.social , Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme
πΈοΈ Journalistic Intermediation on Platforms
π Grays Peak A
Join us and be enlightened!
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How or why does #political content spread on #TikTok? Is there a large supply by political actors, is there a high demand by users for political content or is that content preferred by the platform algorithms? Weizenbaum researcher Felix Gaisbauer takes the issue apart at #WIConf2025
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info talks at #WIConf2025 about #SocialMedia Practice Mapping in #ClimateChange debates in Australia, from climate policy advocates to the local fire departments.
05.06.2025 10:49 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Felix Gaisbauer presenting first insights into political content suggested too and seen by actual German users around the German election earlier this year. Debunking assumptions of asymmetrical algorithmic curation on #tiktok in recent years. #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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