After the shocking outbreak of COVID-19, societies are now reflecting on the pandemic’s impact on people’s lives and daily arrangements, wondering about how to deal with the economic crisis that is waiting just around the corner. In recent weeks, stimulated by the explosion of housework and care demands that households …
Forced displacement is a global issue and a defining feature of our time. How we respond to this humanitarian crisis will be a defining feature of global society for years to come. The important role that knowledge production and mobilization must play to inform the path forward should not be …
Every year on May 15th, we celebrate the International Day of Families to honor the importance of families all around the world. But what does “family” mean? Are there cross-country differences in the understanding of the term? We approach these questions by taking a closer look at the latest wave …
Solidarity has emerged as a main reference concept in the COVID-19 crisis. Since the escalation of the COVID-19 crisis the notion of solidarity occupies a central place in the communication of national and state governments in Germany but also in the highest level of the European Union. The Union is …
Soziale Medien und Suchmaschinen – sogenannte Intermediäre – befördern den individuellen Nachrichtenkonsum und die Vielfalt der Nachrichtenquellen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Studie der GESIS-Wissenschaftler Sebastian Stier und Johannes Breuer gemeinsam mit Michael Scharkow von der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz und Frank Mangold von der Universität Hohenheim – und …
Here’s what we learned from 8 political ‘astroturfing’ campaigns. Dr. Sebastian Stier and his co-authors Franziska Keller, David Schoch, and JungHwan Yang examine so called “astroturfing” campaigns which aim at misleading the public by giving a false impression that there is genuine grass-roots support or opposition for a particular group …