Search Results - (Author, Cooperation:Stier)

2019-08-28

Obwohl in der historischen Forschung eine große Zahl von Zeitreihen gesammelt worden sind, hat sie statistische Methoden der Zeitreihenanalyse bisher nur selten eingesetzt. Das verwirrend reichhaltige und komplexe Angebot der Statistiker an weiterführenden zeitreihenanalytischen Methoden schreckt viele Historiker von den Mühen einer Rezeption ab. Der Beitrag erleichtert den Zugang zu diesen Methoden, indem er in einem vergleichenden Überblick grundlegende Modellannahmen und Verfahrensweisen der klassischen Komponentenzerlegung, des Filter-Designs, der Box/Jenkins-Methode und der Spektralanalyse erläutert sowie Fragestellungen erhellt, die mit diesen Ansätzen jeweils zu bearbeiten sind. (pmb)

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; statistische Analyse ; Zeitreihe ; Analyse ; Methodologie ; empirische Sozialforschung ; Daten ; statistical analysis ; time series ; analysis ; methodology ; empirical social research ; data ; Grundlagenforschung ; Methodenentwicklung ; basic research ; development of methods

Sammelwerksbeitrag, collection article

2018-10-25

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag geht es darum, die wichtigsten Konzepte und Instrumente der Zeit-Serien-Analyse in einer nicht-rein technischen Form zu präsentieren. Aus dem Grund werden nur die elementarsten mathematischen Operationen benutzt. Beweisführungen und zahlreiche Details müssen dabei vernachlässigt werden. Im ersten Teil der Studie werden die Grundvoraussetzungen des 'Zeit-Serien-Modells' vorgestellt. Im zweiten Teil geht es unter dem Stichwort 'Filtering of Time Series' um die Probleme von Filtermethoden, die in der historischen Forschung sehr wichtig sind. Der Autor diskutiert dabei traditionelle und neue Filtermethoden. (pka)

'The main purpose of this lecture is the presentation of important concepts and tools of time series analysis in a non-technical way. Therefore only elementary mathematical operations will be used. Proofs and a lot of details are ommitted completely. In a first part 'Time Series Models' fundamentals and modelling of time series are discussed. The second part 'Filtering of Time Series' is dedicated to filter-problems in time series analysis. The two parts are independent of each other.' (author's abstract)

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; History ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung ; Social History, Historical Social Research ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; historical social research ; science of history ; analysis ; methodological research ; time series ; Zeitreihe ; historische Sozialforschung ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Methodenforschung ; Analyse

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2018-10-25

Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert einige statistische und mathematische Probleme der 'langen Wellen', d.h. dem Phänomen regelmäßiger, sich in langen Zeiträumen wiederholender Abläufe. Gezeigt wird, wie Informationen über 'lange Wellen' aus Zeitreihen und einem Filter-Design abgeleitet werden können. Dieser Ansatz steht im engen Zusammenhang mit der Methodologie der Zeitreihenanalyse. Das vorgestellte parametrische Modell beansprucht prognostische Relevanz (zumindest für die im Text benutzten Daten). (pmb)

'In this paper, by 'modelling' we mean the identification and estimation of time series models and not the development and evaluation of economic-theoretical models. Whereas the latter mentioned approach aims at analysing the probable causes of wave-phenomena, the time-series approach is a purely empirical one. If it should prove to be possible to identify timeseries models, we can hope that they will possess predictive power and we can further hope that this will help us in finding dependencies between different wave-series. This would make it possible to conduct multivariate analyses of wave-phenomena which have to the best of our knowledge not been performed yet. However, in this paper we restrict ourselves to univariate modelling for two reasons: in the first place, we think that sufficient experience must be accumulated in univariate modelling before multivariate modelling can be done properly, and secondly, even univariate modelling of long wave-phenomena by means of modern time series analysis is a topic not discussed up to now (as far as we know).' (author's abstract)

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; historical social research ; methodology ; model construction ; analysis ; time series ; empirical social research ; Zeitreihe ; historische Sozialforschung ; Methodologie ; Analyse ; Modellentwicklung ; empirische Sozialforschung ; Grundlagenforschung ; basic research

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2019-08-28

News media, journalism, publishing ; Political science ; Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Datengewinnung ; Twitter ; Soziale Medien ; Monitoring ; Kommunikationsraum ; politische Kommunikation ; Online-Medien ; politischer Einfluss ; Facebook ; Wahlkampf ; Bundestagswahl ; agenda setting function ; Interaktion ; election to the Bundestag ; political communication ; interaction ; election campaign ; political influence ; facebook ; monitoring ; social media ; communications area ; twitter ; online media ; data capture

Arbeitspapier, working paper

2023-03-02

While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until now, there are relatively few studies that combine these two data types. This may be surprising given the potential of linking surveys and digital trace data, but at the same time, it is important to note that the collection and analysis of such linked data are challenging in several regards. The three key issues are: (1) data linking including informed consent for individual-level studies, (2) methodological and ethical issues impeding the scientific (re)analysis of linked survey and digital trace data sets, and (3) developing conceptual and theoretical frameworks tailored toward the multidimensionality of such data. This special issue addresses these challenges by presenting cutting-edge methodological work on how to best collect and analyze linked data as well as studies that have successfully combined survey data and digital trace data to find innovative answers to relevant social scientific questions.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; data linking; data sharing; digital trace data; informed consent; linkage bias; sensors; surveys ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; Umfrageforschung ; Datengewinnung ; Digitale Medien ; Soziale Medien ; Datenschutz ; survey research ; data capture ; digital media ; social media ; data protection

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2022-12-22

Research has shown that citizens with populist attitudes evaluate the news media more negatively, and there is also suggestive evidence that they rely less on established news sources like the legacy press. However, due to data limitations, there is still no solid evidence whether populist citizens have skewed news diets in the contemporary high-choice digital media environment. In this paper, we rely on the selective exposure framework and investigate the relationship between populist attitudes and the consumption of various types of online news. To test our theoretical assumptions, we link 150 million Web site visits by 7,729 Internet users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to their responses in an online survey. This design allows us to measure media exposure more precisely than previous studies while linking these data to demographic attributes and political attitudes of participants. The results show that populist attitudes leave pronounced marks in people’s news diets, but the evidence is heterogeneous and highly contingent on the supply side of a country’s media system. Most importantly, citizens with populist attitudes visit less Web sites from the legacy press, while consuming more hyperpartisan news. Despite these tendencies, the Web tracking data show that populist citizens still primarily get their news from established sources. We discuss the implications of these results for the current state of public spheres in democracies.

Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Political science ; News media, journalism, publishing ; Web tracking; news consumption; selective exposure ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Impact Research, Recipient Research ; Online-Medien ; Nutzung ; Nachrichten ; Informationsverhalten ; politische Einstellung ; Populismus ; politische Kommunikation ; Datengewinnung ; online media ; utilization ; news ; information-seeking behavior ; political attitude ; populism ; political communication ; data capture

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2023-02-10

The Spitzenkandidaten were meant to personalize European Parliament elections. This paper asks whether and through which channels the lead candidates were actually able to make themselves known among voters - a necessary precondition for any electoral effect. Combining panel surveys and online tracking data, the study explores candidate learning during the German 2019 European Parliament election campaign and relates learning to different types of news exposure, with a special focus on online news. The results show that learning was limited and unevenly distributed across candidates. However exposure to candidate-specific online news and most types of offline news helped to acquire knowledge. The findings imply that Spitzenkandidaten stick to voters' minds when they get exposed to them, but that exposure is infrequent in high-choice media environments.

Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Political science ; News media, journalism, publishing ; Candidate learning; media effects; online news; online tracking ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Europawahl ; Europaparlament ; Kandidatur ; Personalisierung ; Wahlverhalten ; Wahlkampf ; Informationsgewinnung ; Nachrichten ; Online-Medien ; Presse ; Fernsehen ; election to the European Parliament ; European Parliament ; candidacy ; personalization ; voting behavior ; election campaign ; information capture ; news ; online media ; press ; television

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2023-03-30

Online political astroturfing—hidden information campaigns in which a political actor mimics genuine citizen behavior by incentivizing agents to spread information online—has become prevalent on social media. Such inauthentic information campaigns threaten to undermine the Internet’s promise to more equitable participation in public debates. We argue that the logic of social behavior within the campaign bureaucracy and principal–agent problems lead to detectable activity patterns among the campaign’s social media accounts. Our analysis uses a network-based methodology to identify such coordination patterns in all campaigns contained in the largest publicly available database on astroturfing published by Twitter. On average, 74% of the involved accounts in each campaign engaged in a simple form of coordination that we call co-tweeting and co-retweeting. Comparing the astroturfing accounts to various systematically constructed comparison samples, we show that the same behavior is negligible among the accounts of regular users that the campaigns try to mimic. As its main substantive contribution, the paper demonstrates that online political astroturfing consistently leaves similar traces of coordination, even across diverse political and country contexts and different time periods. The presented methodology is a reliable first step for detecting astroturfing campaigns.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; News media, journalism, publishing ; Political science ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Desinformation ; Twitter ; Soziale Medien ; Internet ; Kampagne ; Principal-Agent-Modell ; Netzwerkanalyse ; social media ; twitter ; principal-agent-theory ; disinformation ; network analysis ; campaign ; 10100 ; 10800 ; 10500

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2021-12-13

Während der Corona-Pandemie ist der Zugang zu verlässlichen Informationen besonders relevant, um Schutzmaßnahmen ergreifen zu können. Migrant*innen und Geflüchteten in Transit- und Residenzländern mangelt es häufig am Zugang zu diesen Informationen. Dies öffnet den Raum für die Entstehung alternativer Sensibilisierungs- und Informationsquellen. Dazu zählen etwa Corona-Songs, also Lieder zur Sensibilisierung über COVID-19 und die nötigen Schutzmaßnahmen. Auch im Senegal sind seit Mitte März 2020 solche Lieder entstanden, die über soziale Medien weite Verbreitung finden. In diesem Artikel werden 20 senegalesische Corona-Songs und die dazugehörigen Videoclips auf ihr Potenzial als Sensibilisierungs- und Informationsquelle sowohl für die wolofsprachige Bevölkerung im Senegal als auch Migrant*innen und Geflüchtete in Transit- und Residenzländern analysiert.

During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and the necessary protective measures constitute one of these alternatives. Such songs have been created in Senegal since mid-March 2020 and are widely distributed through social media. This article analyzes 20 Senegalese Corona Songs and their video clips for their potential as sources of raising awareness and information for both the Wolof-speaking population in Senegal and migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; COVID-19; Corona; Corona songs; Flucht; Information; Migration; Senegal; Sensibilisierungsmaßnahmen; awareness raising measures;information; migration; refugees ; Migration ; Migration, Sociology of Migration

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2022-07-08

Soziale Medien nehmen gerade unter Corona-Bedingungen eine größere Rolle im Wahlkampf ein. Verbunden mit dem innerparteilichen Kampf um die Spitzenkandidaturen, der Zersplitterung des Parteiensystems und einer personalisierten Kanzlerwahl befördert das individualisierte Medium Twitter die Personalisierung des politischen Wettbewerbs. Für eine Analyse der Bundestagswahl stellt sich die Frage, ob es mit Twitterdaten auch möglich ist, Rückschlüsse auf die individuellen politischen Positionen von Bundestagskandidierenden zu ziehen. Anhand der politischen Kommunikation einiger prominenter Spitzenpolitiker:innen werden die zentralen Dimensionen des politischen Raums auf Twitter sichtbar, insbesondere die Neuausrichtung der traditionellen Links-Rechts Dimension.

Social media have become increasingly important during election campaigns, especially under corona conditions. Combined with the inner-party struggles, the fragmentation of the party system and personalized campaigns including a strong focus on chancellor candidates, the individualized medium of Twitter promotes the personalization of political competition. For an analysis of the Bundestag elections, the question arises as to whether it is also possible to draw conclusions about the individual political positions of Bundestag candidates using Twitter data. Based on the politial communication of top politicians, the central dimensions of the political space become visible on Twitter, in particular the realignment of the traditional left-right dimension.

Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Political science ; News media, journalism, publishing ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Bundestagswahl ; Soziale Medien ; politische Einstellung ; Textanalyse ; Wahlkampf ; Twitter ; Personalisierung ; Politiker ; Federal Republic of Germany ; election to the Bundestag ; social media ; political attitude ; text analysis ; election campaign ; twitter ; personalization ; politician

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2022-03-28

Der Forschungsbericht stellt die Ergebnisse des "Projektes Rückkehrinteressierte Migrant*innen" (PRIM) vor, welches an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) im Jahr 2019 im Auftrag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH durchgeführt und durch das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) gefördert wurde. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie standen Geflüchtete aus den 13 Herkunftsländern des Programms "Perspektive Heimat". Anhand von Interviews mit diesen Akteur*innen, sowie diversen Unterstützungsakteur*innen, wurden die Bedarfslage, die Lebensbedingungen sowie die Zukunftsorientierungen dieser Zielgruppe in Bezug auf das Thema Rückkehr in Deutschland erhoben. Es wurde herausgearbeitet, inwiefern eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Rückkehr stattfindet und welche Vorstellungen von Rückkehr von den Befragten geäußert werden. Außerdem wurden Erkenntnisse über die Bekanntheit und Nutzung von Unterstützungsangeboten zur Alltagsbewältigung und Planung einer Rückkehr gewonnen. Um die Rückkehrförderung bedarfsgerecht für die Zielgruppe weiterentwickeln zu können, wurden auf der Grundlage der Studienergebnisse Handlungsempfehlungen für das BMZ-Programm "Perspektive Heimat" sowie für Akteur*innen der Rückkehrpolitik erarbeitet.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Social problems and services ; Migration ; Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik ; Migration, Sociology of Migration ; Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning ; Migrant ; Flüchtling ; Rückwanderung ; Motivation ; Asylpolitik ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; soziale Unterstützung ; Sozialarbeit ; Reintegration ; migrant ; refugee ; remigration ; motivation ; asylum policy ; Federal Republic of Germany ; social support ; social work ; reintegration

Forschungsbericht, research report

2024-03-20

Members of parliament (MPs) are elected via two different tiers in mixed‐member electoral systems - as winners of a seat in a constituency or as party candidates under proportional rules. While previous research has identified important consequences of this "mandate divide" in parliaments, questions remain how this institutional setup affects MPs' political behavior in other arenas. Analyzing more than one million social media posts, this article investigates regional representation in the online communication of German MPs. The results show that MPs elected under a direct mandate refer approximately twice as often to their constituencies by using regionalized wording and geographic references than MPs elected under the proportional tier. The substantive findings provide new evidence for the benefits of mixed‐member electoral systems for political representation while the methodological approach demonstrates the added value of social media data for analyzing the political behavior of elites.

Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Political science ; News media, journalism, publishing ; mandate divide; mixed‐member electoral systems; regional representation ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Interactive, electronic Media ; politische Kommunikation ; Abgeordneter ; Wahlkreis ; Verhältniswahl ; politisches Verhalten ; Repräsentation ; Soziale Medien ; Facebook ; Twitter ; politisches Mandat ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; political communication ; representative ; electoral district ; election by proportional representation ; political behavior ; representation ; social media ; facebook ; twitter ; political mandate ; Federal Republic of Germany

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2024-03-20

The politics of representation has become increasingly complex in recent years. Amid weakening traditional political cleavages, the emergence of new political divides and mounting anti-elitism that have helped the rise of radical populist parties, voters face significant cross-pressures when casting their ballots. Despite a wealth of studies on the role of issue preferences in voting behaviour, there are still many unknowns when it comes to understanding how voters trade off competing issue preferences against each other. Studying issue trade-offs is also important against the backdrop of the well-documented preferences of radical left and right voters for redistribution and restrictive immigration policies, respectively. To investigate the strength of issue preferences among radical left, radical right and mainstream party voters and the willingness to compromise on their most important issues, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment with 2,000 participants in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The voting scenario in the experiment featured proposals on salient political issues and different (non)populist stances on political representation. The results from the cross-country study, as well as a large replication study with a sample of 4,000 German respondents, show that voters of radical right parties are willing to accept large trade-offs regarding their other issue preferences as long as their preference for restrictive immigration policies is fulfilled. Differently, radical left, Green and mainstream party voters have a more variegated range of issue preferences, some of them so strong that they are not traded off for their preferred redistribution and European Union integration positions, respectively. The findings shed light on trade-offs related to emerging issues such as climate change and the distinct logics behind support for radical parties. They also have implications for the electoral prospects of mainstream and radical parties when trying to reposition themselves in the diversifying issue space of contemporary democracies. As such, understanding how voters navigate issue cross-pressures helps to explain the broader dynamics that are (re)configuring political conflict and voting behaviour in Europe.

Politikwissenschaft ; Political science ; cleavages; issue trade-offs; radical right parties; radical left parties; survey experiment ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Italien ; Wahlverhalten ; Partei ; Europa ; Kompromiss ; Repräsentation ; Experiment ; Befragung ; rechtsextreme Partei ; Spanien ; Frankreich ; Wähler ; Präferenz ; Linksradikalismus ; Italy ; voting behavior ; party ; preference ; Federal Republic of Germany ; compromise ; representation ; experiment ; Europe ; voter ; survey ; France ; left-wing radicalism ; right-wing extremist party ; Spain ; 10500

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2025-04-09

Digital Behavioral Data (DBD) has become an invaluable resource for researchers across the social sciences, offering unprecedented insights into human behavior and social phenomena. The collection and use of such data raise significant ethical concerns that researchers must carefully navigate. This guide provides an overview of the ethical considerations in DBD research, addressing both platform-centered and user-centered approaches. It explores key ethical challenges throughout the research process, from study design and data collection to processing and analysis, publication and data sharing. It discusses critical issues, such as informed consent, data minimization, privacy or inferring user attributes. In addition to outlining key ethical issues, the guide discusses helpful resources and provides recommendations to help researchers conduct ethically sound DBD studies while maximizing the value of their research. As the landscape of DBD research continues to evolve, this guide is meant to serve as a resource for researchers, ethics committees, and policymakers seeking to balance scientific advancement with the protection of individual rights and privacy in research with DBD.

Digitale Verhaltensdaten (Digital Behavioral Data, DBD) sind zu einer unschätzbaren Ressource für Forschende in allen Bereichen der Sozialwissenschaften geworden und bieten beispiellose Einblicke in menschliches Verhalten und soziale Phänomene. Die Sammlung und Nutzung solcher Daten werfen erhebliche ethische Bedenken auf, die Forschende sorgfältig berücksichtigen müssen. Dieser Leitfaden bietet einen Überblick über die ethischen Überlegungen in der DBD-Forschung, wobei sowohl plattform- als auch nutzerzentrierte Ansätze berücksichtigt werden. Er untersucht die wichtigsten ethischen Herausforderungen während des gesamten Forschungsprozesses, vom Studiendesign und der Datenerhebung über die Verarbeitung und Analyse bis hin zur Veröffentlichung und Weitergabe von Daten. Es werden kritische Themen wie informierte Zustimmung, Datenminimierung, Datenschutz oder die Ableitung von Benutzerattributen erörtert.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Digital Behavioral Data (DBD); research ethics; platform-centered approach; user-centered approach; social science ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; Datengewinnung ; Digitale Medien ; Soziale Medien ; Forschung ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Datenschutz ; data capture ; digital media ; social media ; research ; science ethics ; data protection

Arbeitspapier, working paper

2021-02-16

Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 (N = 2970) and 2018 (N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by preferences. The infrastructural role of social media corresponded with reduced news avoidance and more varied news repertoires. Overall, the results suggest that research needs to reconsider commonly held premises regarding the uses of digital media in modern high-choice settings.

News media, journalism, publishing ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Digital infrastructures; generations; media repertoires; online news; preferences; social media; web tracking ; Interactive, electronic Media ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Medien ; Twitter ; Soziale Medien ; Medienverhalten ; Infrastruktur ; Stichprobe ; Online-Medien ; Facebook ; Nachrichten ; Digitale Medien ; Generation ; Nutzung ; Präferenz ; Repräsentativität ; Internet ; altersspezifische Faktoren ; sample ; generation ; preference ; utilization ; Federal Republic of Germany ; facebook ; representativity ; social media ; infrastructure ; media behavior ; twitter ; online media ; news ; age-specific factors ; digital media ; media ; 10800

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2018-07-27

'Nicht erst seit Freud und der psychoanalytischen Schule geht die Wissenschaft davon aus, daß gesellschaftliche Liberalisierungsprozesse sich immer auch in Form einer Lockerung der Moralstrukturen auswirken. Das Ausmaß sexueller Permissivität in der Bevölkerung eines Landes gilt als Indikator für Offenheit und Toleranz sowie bei Zeitreihenuntersuchungen als Maß sozialen Wandels. Mit dem vorliegenden Beitrag widmen wir uns diesem Konstrukt und betrachten es unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten: zum einen sollen methodisch - anhand der Überprüfung von Boden- und Deckeneffekten - Qualität und Adäquanz der häufig und interkulturell verwendeten Items zur Messung sexueller Permissivität analysiert werden. Dazu vergleichen wir sexuell permissive Einstellungen in Deutschland und Israel. Zum anderen replizieren wir das Vorgehen früherer, zumeist amerikanischer Studien auf diesem Gebiet und testen den diesbezüglichen Einfluß soziodemographischer Merkmale in den genannten Ländern. Darüber hinaus wenden wir uns der Frage eventueller systembedingter Unterschiede in den sexuellen Haltungen zu, indem wir die Antworten der Ostdeutschen und die der jüdischen Immigranten aus den Staaten der ehemaligen UdSSR nach Israel denen der westdeutschen und denen der übrigen israelischen Bevölkerung gegenüberstellen.' (Autorenreferat)

'Even before the appearance of Freudian psychoanalysis, scientist have held that processes of societal liberalisation tend to contribute to a loosening of morals. The degree of sexual permissiveness in a society is often regarded as an indicator for openness and tolerance. In diachronic terms - from a temporal perspective - it is also taken as a measure of social change. The article investigates the construct of sexual permissiveness from different vantage points. From a methodological standpoint we examine bottom and ceiling effects and their consequences for the quality and adequacy of these indicators for comparative (cross-cultural) research. The substantive perspective is pursued in replicating other, mostly American studies in this area. The countries chosen are Germany and Israel. We examine the influence of socio-demographic variables in the two countries. In particular, we address the question of system-related differences in the attitudes towards sexuality and compare responses from Eastern Germans and Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Republics to Israel with responses from Western Germans and the remaining Israeli population.' (author's abstract)|

Sociology & anthropology ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung ; Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie ; Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior ; Research Design ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Methodologie ; Russland ; Sexualität ; neue Bundesländer ; interkultureller Vergleich ; Nordamerika ; Israel ; Liberalisierung ; Asien ; Psychoanalyse ; postsozialistisches Land ; empirische Sozialforschung ; Indikator ; Toleranz ; USA ; Nahost ; Analyse ; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat ; post-socialist country ; liberalization ; Asia ; North America ; analysis ; tolerance ; indicator ; sexuality ; Middle East ; Federal Republic of Germany ; psychoanalysis ; Russia ; intercultural comparison ; New Federal States ; United States of America ; methodology ; empirical social research ; USSR successor state ; empirisch ; empirisch-quantitativ ; empirical ; quantitative empirical

journal article, Zeitschriftenartikel

2020-02-29

Research has prominently assumed that social media and web portals that aggregate news restrict the diversity of content that users are exposed to by tailoring news diets toward the users' preferences. In our empirical test of this argument, we apply a random-effects within-between model to two large representative datasets of individual web browsing histories. This approach allows us to better encapsulate the effects of social media and other intermediaries on news exposure. We find strong evidence that intermediaries foster more varied online news diets. The results call into question fears about the vanishing potential for incidental news exposure in digital media environments.

Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; News media, journalism, publishing ; news exposure; web tracking data ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Soziale Medien ; Online-Medien ; Nutzung ; Nachrichten ; Selektion ; Medienverhalten ; social media ; online media ; utilization ; news ; selection ; media behavior

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2024-11-14

Die Autor*innen haben festgestellt, dass ein allgemeines Verständnis von Datenqualität für sozialwissenschaftliche Daten erforderlich ist. Bestehende Rahmenwerke bieten zwar wertvolle Orientierungshilfen für die Bewertung der Datenqualität, konzentrieren sich jedoch in der Regel auf bestimmte Dimensionen oder Datentypen. Die Autor*innen sind der Meinung, dass diese Rahmenwerke zwar von entscheidender Bedeutung sind, dass aber eine umfassendere Perspektive auf die Datenqualität erforderlich ist, um die inhärente Mehrdimensionalität der Qualitätsaspekte in sozialwissenschaftlichen Daten vollständig zu erfassen. Daher bietet dieses Positionspapier einen einheitlichen Rahmen für die Bewertung der Datenqualitätsdimensionen sozialwissenschaftlicher Daten.

The authors have identified the need for a commonly shared understanding of data quality for social science data. While existing frameworks offer valuable guidance for assessing data quality, they tend to concentrate on specific dimensions or data types. The authors contend that while these frameworks are crucial, a more comprehensive perspective on data quality is needed to fully capture the inherent multidimensional nature of quality aspects in social science data. Hence, this position paper provides a unfied framework for assessing data quality dimensions of social science data.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Sozialforschung ; Datengewinnung ; Datenaufbereitung ; Daten ; Analyse ; Datenqualität ; Integrität ; Reliabilität ; social science ; social research ; data capture ; data preparation ; data ; analysis ; data quality ; integrity ; reliability

Stellungnahme, comment

2024-12-13

Given that Facebook is still the most widely used social networking site in the world, its influence on democratic processes is under constant scrutiny. Academics have put a special focus on Facebook's role in inhibiting or enhancing citizens' news exposure. Recent studies using digital behavioral data have analyzed the prevalence and effects of "Facebook news referrals." Using a web tracking tool that captures general browsing behavior as well as public posts seen on Facebook, this paper lays the groundwork for the field by assessing the validity of previously proposed operationalizations. We validate news referrals by investigating whether different measures actually reflect exposure to a news URL a user saw on Facebook. We furthermore assess the effects of news referrals on central outcomes in extant literature, contingent on different operationalizations. The results show that the most precise measure of news referrals are click identifiers attached to news URLs by Facebook. Different operationalizations of referrals have theoretically impactful consequences for the substantive understanding of Facebook’s role in high-choice online environments. The paper demonstrates the need for academics to constantly innovate in order to measure citizens’ online behavior in an ecologically valid manner.

Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; News media, journalism, publishing ; news exposure; referrals; web browsing data; data linking ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung ; Interactive, electronic Media ; Impact Research, Recipient Research ; Digitale Medien ; soziales Netzwerk ; Facebook ; Nachrichten ; Verhalten ; Benutzerforschung ; Medienkonsum ; Interaktion ; politische Faktoren ; Internet ; digital media ; social network ; facebook ; news ; behavior ; user research ; media consumption ; interaction ; political factors

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article

2024-12-13

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the surge of populism and subsequent political polarization might make voters' political preferences more detectable from digital trace data. This potential scenario could expose voters to the risk of being targeted and easily influenced by political actors. This study investigates the linkage between over 19,000,000 website visits, tracked from 1,003 users in Germany, and their survey responses to explore whether website choices can accurately predict political attitudes across five dimensions: Immigration, democracy, issues (such as climate and the European Union), populism, and trust. Our findings indicate a limited ability to identify political attitudes from individuals' website visits. Our most effective machine learning algorithm predicted interest in politics and attitudes toward democracy but with dependency on model parameters. Although website categories exhibited suggestive patterns, they only marginally distinguished between individuals with anti- or pro-immigration attitudes, as well as those with populist or mainstream attitudes. This further confirm the reliability of surveys in measuring attitudes compared to digital trace data and, from a normative perspective, suggests that the potential to extract sensitive political information from online behavioral data, which could be utilized for microtargeting, remains limited.

Politikwissenschaft ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Political science ; Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ; web tracking data; machine learning; surveys; life-style ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ; Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ; Populismus ; Polarisierung ; politische Meinung ; politische Einstellung ; Website ; Internet ; Demokratie ; Vertrauen ; Datenschutz ; Einfluss ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; populism ; polarization ; political opinion ; political attitude ; website ; democracy ; confidence ; data protection ; influence ; Federal Republic of Germany

Zeitschriftenartikel, journal article