| Website | https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/staff/person/Klaus.Pforr |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6300-8224 |
| Github | https://github.com/klauspforr |
| IDEAS | https://ideas.repec.org/e/ppf24.html |
Klaus Pforr
@klauspforr
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Sociologist at @GESIS, specifically working on EU-SILC in @gesis_gml. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation
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Recover Stata code from .gph files https://bit.ly/36VOwqk
Ulrich SchimmackAn unfair disadvantage for German researchers. They now are forced to make their file drawers public. Every university could mandate this as part of IRB review.
Philip N CohenI learned from a notification from @zotero, that this article in PLOS One has been retracted for poor quality and overreaching conclusions, reporting that "Our data demonstrate that Donald Trump, before his profile was suspended, was the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter." 100k views, 100+ citations, 30+ news reports. Thank goodness for #peerreview! Imagine if they had just released this as unreviewed #preprints. #scicomm #COVID19 #disinformation https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247642
The anti-vaccination infodemic on social media: A behavioral analysis
Vaccinations are without doubt one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, and there is hope that they can constitute a solution to halt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, the anti-vaccination movement is currently on the rise, spreading online misinformation about vaccine safety and causing a worrying reduction in vaccination rates worldwide. In this historical time, it is imperative to understand the reasons of vaccine hesitancy, and to find effective strategies to dismantle the rhetoric of anti-vaccination supporters. For this reason, we analyzed the behavior of anti-vaccination supporters on the platform Twitter. Here we identify that anti-vaccination supporters, in comparison with pro-vaccination supporters, share conspiracy theories and make use of emotional language. We demonstrate that anti-vaccination supporters are more engaged in discussions on Twitter and share their contents from a pull of strong influencers. We show that the movement’s success relies on a strong sense of community, based on the contents produced by a small fraction of profiles, with the community at large serving as a sounding board for anti-vaccination discourse to circulate online. Our data demonstrate that Donald Trump, before his profile was suspended, was the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter. Based on these results, we welcome policies that aim at halting the circulation of false information about vaccines by targeting the anti-vaccination community on Twitter. Based on our data, we also propose solutions to improve the communication strategy of health organizations and build a community of engaged influencers that support the dissemination of scientific insights, including issues related to vaccines and their safety.
netzpolitik.orgDas Open-Source-Protokoll Matrix findet immer mehr begeisterte Anhänger:innen. Doch für die weitere Entwicklung fehlt das Geld. Die Matrix.org Foundation hat daher einen Hilferuf initiiert.
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/matrix-open-source-wachstum-in-geldnot/
Katja PomianowiczHi 👋, here comes my belated #Introduction ! I’m a passionate educ. sociologist working on inequalities in the school system from a comparative perspective. I am on the finishing line of my PhD on school tracking effects on children of immigrants’ various edu outcomes.
Currently I work in a project on fairness perceptions among students @Uni Konstanz / Cluster of Excellence. I'm here for any kind of exchange reg. childhood inequalities, youths’ fairness perceptions & international comparisons!
Alexander WuttkeRT @rolandimhoff@twitter.com
This is huge. The German science foundation requests publicly accessible final reports of all funded studies to enhance the visibility of null results. https://twitter.com/dfg_public/status/1609863489757093889
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rolandimhoff/status/1609871389229723654
DFG public on Twitter
“Projekt-#Abschlussberichte: Einheitliche Grundlagen sollen #DFG-Projekte besser erschließen, die Verwendung d. Gelder und (auch negative) #Forschungsergebnisse transparenter machen. Entspr. Muster gelten für die meisten ab 1.1.23 bewilligten Anträge. Mehr: https://t.co/MSB4ZYBQtV”