Scientists, politicians, media professionals, and institutions are increasingly turning their backs on the microblogging platform X, ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X. They criticize the new owner for actively promoting right-wing extremism and conspiracy theories and regard the platform as lost. That wasn’t always the …
What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, a dedicated team has documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints, revealing surprising twists and the evolving relationship between speedy online sharing and formal journal publication. The newly …
The COVID-19 pandemic officially ended almost three years ago. Let us revisit that period and examine how it changed (or not) our lives, institutions, and attitudes. Die COVID-19-Pandemie endete offiziell vor fast drei Jahren. Lassen Sie uns auf diese Zeit zurückblicken und untersuchen, wie sie unser Leben, unsere Institutionen und …
Using a dataset of the GESIS Panel.dbd from 2023, this article examines AI use and attitudes in Germany. Almost half of the respondents had tried ChatGPT while one in five had not heard of it. Both positive and negative attitudes toward AI were common. Most agreement was found on the …
Chances are, you’ve run into this before. Regression results that change depending on how you handle missing values in your dependent variable. A long item battery where many respondents select the same response option all the way through. A set of survey items that do not seem to measure the …
Digital technologies have profoundly changed our lives. Social media, online platforms, and smartphones are a taken-for-granted part of our everyday life. They generate quantities of so-called Digital Behavioral Data, DBD — traces of human and algorithmic actions in the digital space. The problem is that DBD arise as a by-product …