Simulating non-pharmaceutical inventions against the spread of a viral disease from a social science perspective. The spreading of viruses depends not only on its biological properties or the availability of effective pharmaceutical remedies but also on human behaviour. Since there are currently no pharmaceutical measures available against CoVID-19, much of …
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 …
Dr. Sebastian Netscher clarifies the difference between Open Data and FAIR Data, and explains why even access-restricted data can conform to FAIR principles. He recommends that researchers focus on processing shareable data and rely on the existing research infrastructure of data archives and repositories. Dr. Sebastian Netscher erklärt den Unterschied …