Postdoctoral researcher, Social Computing Group, University of Zurich. Political communication & computational social science
Our recent paper on transparency reports was covered by Fast Company (featuring my comments on this too!) Read the coverage here https://www.fastcompany.com/90833376/big-tech-transparency-reports-are-a-big-mess
(And/or read the original paper here, it's open access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102477 )
And if you like, feel free to check out the #Mastodon profiles of our IKMZ researchers as well, including directors @mss7676 and @markeis:
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🧮 How can we measure #researchQuality in #psychology?
The #DORA declaration tells us what *not* to do. But what to do instead?
A working group (commissioned by the German Psychological Society & in the spirit of #CoARA) now proposed a way to practically measure research quality in hiring & promotion, w/o resorting to JIF or h-index.
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New research note with Julia Kling, @toepfl & @neilthurman where we map the website/app audiences of RT + Sputnik in 21 countries.
Using Comscore tracking data we find that their web/app reach before the invasion of Ukraine was <5% in each country, staying very roughly similar since 2019 (with country variation and occasional big spikes), though perhaps evidence of a decline in Sputnik reach.
We also find both are slightly more widely used by men and older age groups.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, policymakers worldwide have taken measures to curb the reach of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik. Mapping the audiences of these outlets in 21 countries, we show that in the quarter before the invasion, at least via their official websites and mobile apps, neither outlet reached more than 5% of the
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