As dedicated data curators, we’re excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection: Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020–2022 (TGCPD) During the COVID-19 pandemic, protest movements against containment measures emerged in many countries. In German-speaking contexts, these protests were …
In the first blog post of the KODAQS Toolbox series, we discussed how data quality issues can affect survey data. Similar challenges arise in digital behavioral data (DBD), though they often manifest differently. Researchers may encounter missing or deleted posts, inconsistent annotation schemes across datasets, or preprocessing decisions – such …
Digitale Verhaltensdaten, sogenannte Digital Behavioral Data, sind zu einem zentralen Bestandteil sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Lange Zeit konnten Forschende solche Daten über Programmierschnittstellen, die sogenannten APIs, kommerzieller Online-Plattformen erheben. Doch da viele Plattformen ihren Datenzugang in den letzten Jahren deutlich eingeschränkt haben, werden alternative Erhebungsmethoden zunehmend wichtig. Eine dieser neuen Strategien …
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 …