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 …
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 …
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 …
Social media platforms act as the gatekeepers for research data, as they regulate the access to data generated by and used within the platform. Twitter has been probably one of the most research/academia friendly social media-platform which is evident from the high number of publications based on Twitter data. This …
This blog post discusses a recent large-scale Twitter dataset and its potential applications in research. The dataset consists of over 375 million tweets collected over 24 hours in 2022 by 80 scholars. The data provides a valuable reference point for future research projects and presents exciting research opportunities, including examining …
Vor dem Hintergrund der russischen Invasion der Ukraine und der durch sie verursachten Fluchtbewegung hat GESIS in der zweiten Aprilhälfte 2022 eine Web-Befragung ukrainischer Flüchtlinge in Deutschland und Polen durchgeführt. Die Rekrutierung der Befragten erfolgte durch Werbeanzeigen auf Facebook und Instagram. Against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine …