News relating to project “Online-Offline Spillovers – Potential real-world implications of online manipulation”
In August, researcher Wienke Strathern participated in a three day online workshop in the topic Longitudinal Social Network Analysis around the RSiena software. This workshop is particularly relevant for the analysis of the dynamically changing social networks.
The thesis aims to investigate how German political newspaper journalists are connected and how that impacts the information exchange and diffusion.
In August, researcher Wienke Strathern participated in a three day online workshop in the topic Longitudinal Social Network Analysis around the RSiena software. This workshop is particularly relevant for the analysis of the dynamically changing social networks.
The PI Pr.Dr.Pfeffer is one of the organizers of this year's Sunbelt Conference, which is an annual meeting of the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA). The event took place virtually from the 13th to the 17th of July.
ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.
MA Thesis Politische Polarisierung durch Soziale Medien: What happens to us physically when we are on Facebook? Measuring the effect of Social Media consumption.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer was interviewed by the Austrian radio station Ö1 about how big data can help fight the Coronavirus pandemic and what problems this use of big data might create. In a second interview with Ö1, he elaborated on the potential and risks of big data.
Dr. Gari Walkowitz has joined the project of Jürgen Pfeffer and Matthias Uhl: Online-Offline Spillovers – Potential real-world implications of online manipulation. He is a Researcher in the team of Matthias Uhl, Ethics of Digitization, TUM.
