Karsten Donnay is leaving the CDM and the University of Konstanz to take up a new position in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich Switzerland.
Vortrag am Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) von Prof. Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute) und Prof. Andreas Jungherr (Universität Konstanz) mit anschließender Podiumsdiskussion über die Rolle digitaler Medien in der politischen Kommunikation.
In the article published in Swiss Political Science Review, Susumu Shikano introduces Bayesian hypothesis testing and discusses its advantages and limits. The article is open access and immediately available under: doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12375
We demonstrate the usefulness of graphical causal models to communicate theoretical assumptions about the collection of survey data, to determine whether typical population parameters of interest to survey researchers can be recovered from a survey sample, and to support the choice of suitable adjustment strategies. Starting from graphical representations of prototypical selection…
The article "Automated Identification of Media Bias in News Articles: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review" co-authored by Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp reviews the state-of-the-art in the automated study of bias in news media articles bringing together the latest insights from research in both social and computer science.
New article out in Social Media + Society. In "Digital Media and the Surge of Political Outsiders: Explaining the Success of Political Challengers in the United States, Germany, and China", we argue that digital media neutralize two former monopolies in structuring political discourse and political coordination and mobilization. In the past, these monopolies allowed media and political organizations to channel politics.
We invite scholars at any stage of their career to submit abstracts and papers for a two-day conference on Comparative Research on Political Elites. The conference will take place at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany from 29 to 30 November.
The aim of this project is to develop a contextual understanding of polling errors and their triggers. Unlike most previous studies, we take a cross-election comparative perspective and put the theoretical focus on characteristics of the electoral contest which may encourage polling errors.