Weizenbaum Digital Science Center

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Deutsch Das WDSC ist eine Forschungseinheit, die die Digitalisierungsforschung am Weizenbaum-Institut unterstützt, indem sie die Forschungsgruppen über methodenorientierte Weiterbildung vernetzt, in Kooperation mit den Forschungsgruppen Dateninfrastrukturen bereitstellt und Grundfragen der Digitalisierungsforschung systematisiert und synthetisiert. An dieser Stelle sind die Publikationen, Materialien und Daten zugänglich, die von den vier Forschungseinheiten des WDSC – Weizenbaum Panel, Forschungssynthesen, Metaforschung, Methodenlab – erstellt werden.

English The WDSC is a research unit that supports digitization research at the Weizenbaum Institute by networking the research groups through method-oriented training, providing data infrastructures in cooperation with the research groups, and systematizing and synthesizing fundamental questions in digitization research. The publications, materials and data produced by the four research units of the WDSC—Weizenbaum Panel, Research Syntheses, Meta Research, Methods Lab—are accessible here.

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    Weizenbaum Panel’s Literature Digest: Dezember 2024
    (Weizenbaum Institute, 2025-01-14 00:00:00) Rothermel, Katrin; Maier, Lea; Weizenbaum Panel Research Group
    Der Literatur Digest ist eine monatlich erscheinende Zusammenstellung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes zu Themen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Digitalisierung und Politik. Er präsentiert die neuesten Erkenntnisse zu Fragen der politischen Partizipation und guter Bürgerschaft in Zeiten der Digitalisierung.
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    Weizenbaum Panel’s Literature Digest: January 2025
    (Weizenbaum Institute, 2025-02-11 00:00:00) Rothermel, Katrin; Maier, Lea; Weizenbaum Panel Research Group
    Der Literatur Digest ist eine monatlich erscheinende Zusammenstellung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes zu Themen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Digitalisierung und Politik. Er präsentiert die neuesten Erkenntnisse zu Fragen der politischen Partizipation und guter Bürgerschaft in Zeiten der Digitalisierung.
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    Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?
    (2024) Tang, Rongwei; Vraga, Emily K.; Bode, Leticia; Boulianne, Shelley
    Observed corrections of misinformation on social media can encourage more accurate beliefs, but for these benefits to occur, corrections must happen. By exploring people’s perceptions of witnessing and performing corrections on social media, we find that many people say they observe and perform corrections across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. We find higher levels of self-reported correction experiences
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    Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia
    (2024) Martini, Franziska
    This study focuses on biographies nominated for deletion in the German-language Wikipedia and the encyclopedia’s core principle of notability. Results are presented from quantitative content analyses of deletion nominations, discussions, and decisions from the year 2020. It shows that women’s biographies are more often called into question but not deleted more often than men’s biographies. Additionally, women’s biographies are discussed more controversially. Neither a lack of notability criteria, a lack of external sources, nor individual misogynistic users seem to cause this increased questioning. Instead, the results suggest that the notability of women is collectively surveilled and contested with higher intensity due to biased perceptions. This can be explained by the fact that the concept of notability is not value-free or gender-neutral in the first place—even though it is based on rational discourse. The gender gap in biographies is contentiously discussed by users themselves, too, while overt sexism and gender-based devaluations are effectively countered by engaged users.
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    Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023
    (2024) Boulianne, Shelley; Heger, Katharina; Houle, Nicole; Brown, Delphine
    The COVID-19 pandemic heightened burdens on caregivers, but also the visibility of caregiving inequalities. These grievances may activate a feminist identity which in turn leads to greater civic and political participation. During a pandemic, online forms of participation are particularly attractive as they require less effort than offline forms of participation and pose less health risks compared to collective forms of offline activism. Using survey data from four countries (Canada, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom) collected in 2019 (prior to the pandemic), 2021 (during the pandemic), and 2023 (post-pandemic), we examine the relationship between self-identifying as a feminist and signing online petitions ( n = 18,362). Our multivariate analyses show that having a feminist identity is positively related to signing online petitions. We consider the differential effects of this identity on participation for men, women, non-binary people; caregivers versus non-caregivers; and respondents in different countries with varying levels of restrictions due to the pandemic. A feminist identity is more important for mobilizing caregivers than non-caregivers, whether or not the caregiver is a man or a woman. While grievance theory suggests differential effects by country and time period, we find a consistent role of feminist identity in predicting the signing of online petitions across time and across countries. These findings offer insights into how different groups in varying contexts are mobilized to participate.