Jakob Ohme

It’s not a privilege, it’s a researchers right! #DSA40

@lkseiling.bsky.social and I summarize what the European Commission decision in their case against X (I feel we should follow John Oliver and from now on call it Twitter again) means for researchers right to platform data access [in German]

Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms The Digital Services Act (DSA) is reshaping how researchers access social media data. From new legal rights to platform transparency obligations, this blog explores what the DSA means for research and...

if you missed @dscheykopp.bsky.social present on the Digital Services Act in the @nfdi.de Social Media - Show and Tell Series, you can now read our blog post about his talk here: textplus.hypotheses.org/15885 #dsa #article40dsa #digitalservicesact

YouTube video by MZES Methods Bites What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms

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New recording published!

➡️Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms
👤 @dscheykopp.bsky.social (Weizenbaum Institute Berlin)

📺 youtu.be/8gf2mjIs5j8

Thanks @ddc-sdu.bsky.social for joining!

Check out our new Mobile Research Resources Section @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! You can publish software, data, methods, or any resource that will support the Mobile CommUnity to do research.

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms' by
@dscheykopp.bsky.social
(Weizenbaum Institute Berlin)

⬇️ Zoom link and details below

This is important for all platform researchers! Please read and sign the OPEN LETTER to the EU Commission and share widely in your networks!

🗞️ At the Weizenbaum Institute today: workshop “What is News? Platforms, Audiences & Algorithms.” With colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, we’re exploring how societies get informed in the digital age. Plus a hybrid lunch talk on how changing ideas of “news” may reshape journalism.

On last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.

This was a great roundtable, lots of important questions from the audience, giving the impression that data donations will be around for longer, if we get it right (based on comments from the audience on postcards) #aoir2025

This is joint work with Timothy Charlton, @tothrol.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

How often is too often in ESM research?
🚨New study out!
We compared 6 beeps/day vs. 12 beeps in 2 h bursts.
Both work, but burst designs show more fatigue + attrition — still useful if high temporal precision matters.
App onboarding, though? Big bias alert. 📱

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#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.

#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.

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We are ready! #DSA40

Happening now @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken? Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…

Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z

Our new policy paper on #DSA40 explains the detailed processes of data access (with updates from Delegated Act), describes still existing bottlenecks, and discusses the challenges of legal right vs. platform resistance and is asking all stakeholders to act in good faith and to deliver.

Film & Diskussion: Meinungsbildung und soziale Medien. Mit Merja Mahrt, Annika Baumann und Jakob Ohme. Am 22.09.2025, 18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr am Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin

Wie wirkt sich #SocialMedia Konsum auf die politische Meinungsbildung aus? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich ein Filmscreening mit Publikumsgespräch mit Annika Baumann, Merja Mahrt und @dscheykopp.bsky.social am Montag, 22.9.2025. In Kooperation mit @belapobi.bsky.social.

▶️ Jetzt anmelden: t1p.de/4fzs9

Cover of the publication

👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗

Film & Diskussion: Meinungsbildung und soziale Medien. Mit Merja Mahrt, Annika Baumann und Jakob Ohme. Am 22.09.2025, 18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr am Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin

Wie wirkt sich #SocialMedia Konsum auf die politische Meinungsbildung aus? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich ein Filmscreening mit Publikumsgespräch mit Annika Baumann, Merja Mahrt und @dscheykopp.bsky.social am 22. September 2025.

In Kooperation mit @belapobi.bsky.social

▶️ Mehr Infos: t1p.de/4fzs9

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Fall 2025 Events

Six input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)!

🗓️ Details & Zoom:
socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

👥 Organizers:
@rubac.bsky.social,
@denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025.

Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct

@lkseiling.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @europeannewschool.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @udkberlin.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @fraunhoferfokus.bsky.social

Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für DSCs, Forschende und Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt. Die Wissenschaftler:inn...

„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” –
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:

🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️

#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social

In this piece for Tech Policy Press, @dscheykopp.bsky.social , @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social and I argue that it's time for regulators, researchers, and platforms to fulfil their roles and standards set by the delegated act on data access.

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.

📢 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) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Film / Diskussion / Booklaunch: Meinungsbildung und soziale Medien. Mit annika baumann, merja mahrt, jakob ohme. Wann? 02.07.2025, 18:00 Uhr Wo? Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

In welchem Verhältnis stehen #SocialMedia Konsum und politische Meinungsbildung? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich am 2. Juli ein Filmscreening mit Publikumsgespräch mit Annika Baumann, Merja Mahrt und @dscheykopp.bsky.social. In Kooperation mit @belapobi.bsky.social.

Mehr Infos: tinyurl.com/4bsjwpv5

Do Alternative News users also use legacy media? Yes they do, shows a study by @gongbaobao.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social but a small fraction - around 1.3% of the German population - live in alternative news enclaves