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New on the GESIS Blog: Part 2 of our blog series on the KODQAS Toolbox: Digital Behavioral Data

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.

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New on the GESIS Blog: Data Spotlight #9 introduces the “Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD)” - Compiled by researchers from the University of Munich, FU Berlin, and the TU Ilmenau, the dataset documents the mobilization of German-speaking protest movements on Telegram between 2020 and 2022.

https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2026.119

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Der neue Beitrag im GESIS Blog beschäftigt sich mit Datenspenden als Erhebungsmethode und beleuchtet die Potentiale und Herausforderungen dieser neuen Strategie der Datengewinnung.

https://blog.gesis.org/datenspenden-als-erhebungsmethode-neue-wege-zu-digitalen-verhaltensdaten/

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To mark the 20th anniversary of Twitter/X, we conducted a fascinating interview with Prof. Axel Bruns about the network’s tumultuous history.
"Twitter became a new battleground in ideological struggles around the world."
https://blog.gesis.org/interview-with-prof-axel-bruns-the-anniversary-of-twitter-x-marks-a-bittersweet-moment-in-social-media-history/
Interview with Prof. Axel Bruns - The anniversary of Twitter/X "marks a bittersweet moment in social media history"

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

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What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, and Philipp Mayr documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints from speedy online sharing to formal journal publication.

DOI: 10.34879/gesisblog.2026.116

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Where can I find information about specific data collections?

Check out our regular series “Data Spotlight” on the GESIS blog, where we present specially curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests.

https://blog.gesis.org/tag/data-spotlight/

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In the new post on the GESIS blog the authors Elias Naumann, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Alita Nandi, and Ettore Recchi look back on the pandemic and examine its impact:

https://blog.gesis.org/social-life-during-covid-19-in-france-germany-italy-and-the-uk/

Social Life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK 

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

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The new post on the #GESISblog highlights the use of and attitudes toward #AI in Germany. Julius Kleinbub, Dr. Joachim Piepenburg, and Katharina Kraft show that most people had heard about ChatGPT, while frequent use was scarce, with mixed attitudes toward AI.

https://blog.gesis.org/digital-technologies-and-sampling-comparing-estimates-from-different-recruitment-approaches-within-the-gesis-panel-dbd/

Digital Technologies and Sampling. Comparing Estimates From Different Recruitment - Approaches Within the GESIS Panel.dbd.

Using a dataset of the GESIS Panel.dbd from 2023, this article examines AI use and attitudes in Germany. Almost half of the respondents had tried ChatGPT while one in five had not heard of it.

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The new post on the GESIS blog shows how the #KODAQS #Toolbox helps to improve the quality of survey data: "The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data".
https://blog.gesis.org/the-kodaqs-toolbox-assessing-and-mitigating-data-quality-issues-part-1-survey-data/
The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data

Chances are, you’ve run into this before. Regression results that change depending on how you handle missing values in your dependent variable. A long item battery where many respondents select the same response option all

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Ein neuer Blog-Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Qualitätskriterien für Digitale Verhaltensdaten

Soziale Medien, Online-Plattformen und Smartphones sind Teil unseres Alltags und erzeugen viele digitale Verhaltensdaten.
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