Lisa Oswald

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PhD cand. researching political online communication at the Hertie School, Berlin | internet, democracy & climate change | MSc Social Data Science from OII Oxford | psychologist
Websitehttps://lfoswald.github.io/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/LisaFOswaldo
Show threadLisa OswaldAug 14, 2023
I am beyond excited to be working with
@lorenz_spreen
@stworg and many more great people at
@arc_mpib, to continue my research at the intersection of political science, data science and psychology, and to be living in beautiful Berlin 😊
Lisa OswaldAug 14, 2023
Great news! ✨ From September 1, I’ll be joining the Max-Planck Institute
@mpib_berlin as PostDoc in the EU Horizon Project: Social Media for Democracy
@some4dem!
Lisa OswaldMar 11, 2023
CAIS NRWMar 8, 2023

Auf die Plätze, fertig, tröööt! 🐘

Wir, das Center for Adcaned Internet Studies (CAIS), sind jetzt auch auf Mastodon! Hier informieren wir Euch über unsere Forschungsschwerpunkte, Fellows, Arbeitsgruppen, Ausschreibungen u.v.m.

Aber: Wer ist das CAIS eigentlich?

Seit April 2021 bauen wir das CAIS zu einem Institut für #Digitalisierungsforschung aus. Wir setzen uns mit der #digitalen #Transformation in all ihren Facetten auseinander und erproben unsere Forschungsergebnisse in der Praxis.

Lisa OswaldMar 11, 2023
Dean EcklesMar 8, 2023

My team is about to receive some data we are using for multiple projects, some of which are quite exploratory.

So we're going to immediately split and sequester a "confirmatory" sample. And document this like a pre-analysis plan.

Anyone have experiences with this kind of thing? How can we make this maximally useful/credible?

Lisa OswaldFeb 6, 2023
Almog SimchonFeb 5, 2023

RT @sibr2023
📢 APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2023 SUMMER INSTITUTE ARE NOW OPEN!

We're very excited to announce that this year's Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will focus on the Science of Boosting. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-centers/adaptive-rationality/summer-institute

Summer Institute

Show threadLisa OswaldFeb 2, 2023

Back to bottom line - In this sample, reducing toxicity online does not seem to work via simple changes in the user interface (nudging). However, boosting appears more promising to preemptively reduce toxicity before important voices are forced out of the public discourse online!

Thanks for tons of helpful suggestions by @simonmunzert @lorenz_spreen @seramirezruiz and many more! Further feedback very welcome!

Show threadLisa OswaldFeb 2, 2023
interesting / random 3: favourite and most offensive emojis selected by participants in distraction task. - Is this the first “useful” application for wordclouds? 🤔
Show threadLisa OswaldFeb 2, 2023
also interesting 2: language differences in Google’s Perspective API? + DeepL absorbing toxicity?
Show threadLisa OswaldFeb 2, 2023
also interesting: toxicity differences in replies to different topics
Show threadLisa OswaldFeb 2, 2023
Compared to the control group, neither the empathy or perspective taking nudges nor the friction placebo reduced reply toxicity. Boosting decreased reply toxicity to some degree but the effect was not robust against the inclusion of covariates. More details in the preprint!