GESISMar 20
#GESISblog #blog #Twitter #X #SocialMedia
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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GESISMar 12

#GESISblog #blog
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

GESISFeb 11

#LoveData26 #FDMPower #GESISblog
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/

GESISJan 21

#GESISblog #blog #COVID-19 #pandemic
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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GESISJan 14

#blog #GESISPanel.dbd #Bias #DigitalBehavioralData
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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GESISJan 6
#GESISblog #blog #DataQuality #SurveyData
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

GESIS Blog
GESISDec 11

#GESISblog #blog #dataquality #Qualitätskriterien #DigitaleVerhaltensdaten #dbd
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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GESISNov 26
#GESISblog #blog #SplitQuestionnaireDesigns
New blog post: Long questionnaires are a challenge for respondents and researchers alike.
Split Questionnaire Designs offer a clever way to make surveys shorter.
https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2025.111
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Split Questionnaire Designs as a clever way to make surveys shorter

Long questionnaires are a challenge for respondents and researchers alike. Split Questionnaire Designs (SQDs, Raghunathan and Grizzle, 1995) offer a clever way to make surveys shorter: instead of answering every question, respondents receive only parts

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GESISNov 6
#GESISblog #blog #LoneCovid #COVID-19 #Einsamkeit
Neu im GESIS Blog: Theresia Ell und Dr. Lydia Repke beleuchten im dritten Teil der LoneCovid-Reihe, wie Veränderungen unserer sozialen Netzwerke in der Pandemie zu Einsamkeit beigetragen haben:
https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2025.108
GESISOct 24

#GESISblog #blog #Datenkuratierung
Neu im GESIS Blog: Ein neuer Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit einem neuen Ansatz, um den Mehrwert der Datenkuratierung beziffern zu können

Wie lässt sich messen, was die oft im Hintergrund wirkenden Datenkuratierenden an Qualitätsarbeit tatsächlich leisten? Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck und Ivet Solanes Ros von GESIS sind diesen Fragen auf den Grund gegangen:

https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2025.107