Findings „suggests that the potential to extract sensitive political information from online behavioral data, which could be utilized for microtargeting, remains limited.“ 👇🏼

Important research and a corrective of received wisdom.

Check out the paper by Nora Kirkizh, R. Ulloa, Sebastian Stier, and Jürgen Pfeffer 💎 @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social

Congratulations Nora Kirkizh for publishing your last Ph.D. thesis paper! Good luck and lots of energy for the last couple of weeks of your (part time) graduate student life!
w/ Roberto Ulloa and Sebastian Stier

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

⭐️NEW PUB⭐️

🖥“Predicting Political Attitudes from Web Tracking Data”💻

This study uses #digital tracing to determine whether website choices can predict #political attitudes.

By: Drs. Nora Kirkizh, Ulloa, Sebastian Stier, & Jürgen Pfeffer 💎 @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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There will be a livestream as well. Link to follow.

🤗 #IWD2023

⚖️How do voters trade off competing issue preferences?

Nora Kirkizh Caterina Froio (@caterinafr.bsky.social) Sebastian Stier conducted a #surveyexperiment in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 to investigate this amongst #radicalleft #radicalright & #mainstream party voters

👉 bit.ly/3FPikr0 #OA

We are thrilled to announce a number of amazing guest speakers for SICSS Munich, including Andreas Jungherr, Frauke Kreuter, Jürgen Pfeffer 💎 @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social, Stefanie Walter, & Franziska Weeber.

Applications are still possible until March 3! Please check the thread below for more details.
#SICSS2023

Have you ever asked yourself: How many active accounts are on Twitter? How many might be bots? What are the global/local topics? Languages? Here are some answers! A complete 24 hours of Twitter data! #CSS #Twitter @TwitterDev
arxiv.org/abs/2301.11429

Our lab is hiring up to four postdocs next year! Please consider working with us! We are open to field and are flexible on location.

(w/ Yphtach Lelkes, Shanto Iyengar)
polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

I'm in love with this package and I don't care who knows it.

#ggside is insane for making side plots with #ggplot .

You can make marginal distributions, side-box plots, & many other #ggplot 2 geoms.

Learn more: bit.ly/3SbJz2e

#rstats