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: April 2024
    (Weizenbaum Institute, 2024-05) Zenke, Lisa; Peißker, Antonia; Rothermel, Katrin; 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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    Media Use and Political Engagement: Cross-Cultural Approaches| Media Use and Green Lifestyle Politics in Diverse Cultural Contexts of Postmaterialist Orientation and Generalized Trust: Findings From a Multilevel Analysis
    (2023) Leißner, Laura
    In lifestyle politics, citizens take political action by adapting their everyday lives to address transnational challenges, such as climate change. An important driver of lifestyle politics is exposure to media—both mass media, serving as important information sources, and social media, enabling discussion and expression. To explore how elements of culture shape this relationship, this study examines (a) the link between media use (measured by mass media and social media use) and lifestyle politics across 28 European countries and (b) how cultural context factors (measured by national levels of postmaterialist orientation and trust) moderate this relationship. Results of a multilevel analysis support the positive link between mass media use and lifestyle politics across all countries. However, the results also suggest that the relationship between social media use and lifestyle politics is positive only in countries with postmaterialist orientations and high levels of trust, underscoring the importance of cultural context factors.
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    Why we find little evidence of digital fragmentation, but should not stop researching it
    (2020) Mahrt, Merja; Gehrau, Volker; Waldherr, Annie; Scholl, Armin; Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Publizistik- Und Kommunikationswissenschaft E.V.
    While mass media are generally ascribed integrative potential, scholars assume negative effects on social cohesion for the Internet. Respective metaphors such as "filter bubbles" and "echo chambers" have meanwhile found their way into public discourse. However, empirical research that documents detrimental effects of digital fragmentation remains the exception. The state of research thus does not support fears about a stark loss of social cohesion due to the Internet. Yet there are groups on the fringe of the political spectrum that appear to be digitally fragmented. Given these heterogeneous results, the article systematizes theoretical assumptions and empirical findings and argues that it remains necessary to assess the extent and effects of digital fragmentation.
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    Between Individual and Collective Social Effort: Vocabularies of Informed Citizenship in Different Information Environments
    (2023) Gagrčin, Emilija; Porten-Cheé, Pablo
    Information disorder and digital media affordances challenge informed citizenship as an ideal and in practice. While scholars have attempted to adapt the normative ideal to contemporary changes and challenges by introducing new metaphors and normative benchmarks, this study investigates citizens’ ideals and practices of informed citizenship by deploying the concept of citizenship vocabularies. Drawing on interviews with citizens from different information environments—Germany and Serbia—we offer a conceptual outline of informed citizenship as an individual and collective social effort. Our findings illustrate the role of the information environment in shaping citizenship vocabularies. We advance the idea of informed citizenship as a relational practice, arguing for a social ontological approach to theorizing informed citizenship today.
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    Weizenbaum Panel’s Literature Digest: March 2024
    (Weizenbaum Institute, ) Zenke, Lisa; Peißker, Antonia; Rothermel, Katrin; 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.