🚨 Wave 5 (2023) of the Weizenbaum Panel is now available in the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer. Check it out if you‘re interested in Germans‘ media use, political participation, civic norms, and more!

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Großartige Arbeit!
Interessant für alle, die wissen wollen wie der DSA wirkt.

Please check out this very useful report from my colleagues on the current state of DSA data access options from the tracker: soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati….
Very important points are raised that highlight the arbitrariness of the way some platforms currently implement #DSA40 (12)👇

European Commission recently published status report on DSA data access: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/sta…

Paper w/ Jakob Ohme Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social highlights some issues and makes suggestions for improvement: weizenbaum-library.de/items/39a490c3…

Important work tracking how well tech companies are avoiding the new DSA rules 👇

'Currently, researchers from academia and civil society still face significant hurdles when trying to request publicly accessible data from VLOPs'

Disabling smartphone notifications did not change smartphone behavior (checking frequency and screen time), nor did it change perceived control, productivity, or smartphone-related distractions, finds Dekker Baumgartner SindySumter Jakob Ohme doi.org/10.1080/152132…

First results from our #DSA40 Collaboratory #DataAcccessTracker w Julian Jaursch Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Stiftung Neue Verantwortung Weizenbaum-Institut published in a position paper for enforcement of public platform data access after #DSA40 (12) Paper: doi.org/10.34669/wi.wp… Tracker: soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati… 🙏 🔄

We finally published our study on information categories for risk communication in data processing!

Read the full paper here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10472… (open access)
tl;dr: youtu.be/864gq-D6H7s

So, what did we research and why? 🧵

Rita Gsenger, Marie Schirmbeck,Weizenbaum-Institut

Quant people: Do you know any way to perform Multilevel SEM with 3 levels and random intercepts and slopes in R? I know lavaan doesn‘t support this (yet) and I try to avoid getting Mplus just for this…

💡 💽 Looking for a new #IT #job in #Berlin ?
‼️ Don't hesitate and apply here ➡️ weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/detail…

Did you recently apply for API or other platform data access from X, TikTok, and Co., or know someone who did? Share this post or your experience through our #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker. First entries are in, but we need more to make this a powerful tool! 🙏🔁

Our team is glad to have Joe Bayer stopping by at Weizenbaum-Institut for a research visit, where he presented very fresh insights in the fascinating project around spatial conditions of smartphone usage - Joe will be back as a fellow later this year and we are already looking fwd 🤗!

📣 Calling all researchers and professionals! 📊 Join the #DSA40 Data Access Tracker initiative to share your experiences with access requests under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act. Let's contribute to transparency together!
🔗 Access the form here: soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati…

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My weekly Robert-Porn.

If you applied for data access through the Digital Services Act, please share your experience here through the #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker:

This is great and very useful to inform the oversight of the DSA enforcement. Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom Centre for a Digital Society

Have you recently requested data access from a platform under #DSA 40 ? If you have, share your experience with the community via the Data Access Tracker proj., which aims to gather empirical evidence re: platforms' compliance or non-compliance w/the #DSA . soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati…