Es waren ereignis- und krisenreiche Amtsjahre, in denen Angela Merkel von 2005 bis 2021 Bundeskanzlerin der Bundesrepublik Deutschland war: die Finanz‑/Eurokrise, die „Flüchtlingskrise“, die Klimakrise und zuletzt die Corona-Pandemie. Zeiten der Krise gehen oft mit Wandel einher. Doch wie spiegelt sich dieser Wandel in den Einstellungen der deutschen Bevölkerung zu …
Have you ever wondered if a message you sent may be received as sexist? Did you ask yourself how could you have made it better? To take concrete steps towards understanding what, really, is sexist, a group of researchers curated a dataset of over 10.000 tweets to enable researchers to …
The standard definition of ‘family’ as a social unit living under one roof might be challenged in the context of international migration. Families are scattered across different countries or even continents. However, despite their physical distance from each other, they can maintain their family life and the feeling of connectedness …
Survey data are the most widely used type of data in the quantitative social sciences. They have been used to investigate a huge range of societally relevant topics. However, they also have specific limitations. An effective way of addressing those is linking survey data with other types of data, such …
The German Federal Election of 2021 will be the most digitalized ever: In times of Covid-19, a younger electorate and omnipresence of user generated content, social media has become an important tool and arena for politics. While collecting data from Twitter’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is simple, it is difficult …
Copyright and Open Science are two poles in science that seem to be diametrically opposed to each other. But only seemingly: because we show an uncomplicated way to protect one’s own intellectual property from misuse on the one hand, and still make one’s own research work freely usable for others. …