Events

New Interview: Andreas Jungherr talks about "Meinungsmache im Netz – Wie mächtig sind soziale Medien?" on dbate. www.youtube.com/watch

New Publication: Opinion Piece in Der Tagesspiegel on Filter Bubbles: "Die Diskussion um die Filterblase lenkt von den wahren Problemen ab". causa.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/wie-veraendert-die-filter-bubble-die-politik/die-diskussion-um-die-filterblase-lenkt-von-den-wahren-problemen-ab.html

New Quote: Andreas Jungherr is quoted in "Wenn Populisten selbst auf Sendung gehen." Deutschlandfunk. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommunikation-wenn-populisten-selbst-auf-sendung-gehen.761.de.html

Prof. Selb will serve as the first chair in the dissertation committee of Julian Schüssler, PhD student in the Graduate School of Decision Sciences. We are very happy to welcome Julian to the team!

Marlène Gerber André Bächtiger, Susumu Shikano, Simon Reber and Samuel Rohr's study "Deliberative Abilities and Influence in a Transnational Deliberative Poll (Europolis)" forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science investigates the deliberative abilities of ordinary citizens in the context of a transnational deliberative poll.

Michael Herrmann, Simon Munzert and Peter Selb published their study "Determining the Effect of Strategic Voting on Election Results" in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) Volume 179, Issue 2, 2016, p. 583-605.

Peter Selb and Simon Munzert recently published their study "Forecasting the 2013 Bundestag Election: Using Data From Many Polls and Historical Election Results" in German Politics Volume 25, Issue 1, 2016, p. 73-83.