At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Köln (Cologne), I am leading the team “Digital Society Observatory” as part of the department Computational Social Science. From 2021-2023 I am also co-leading the Research Data and Methods unit at CAIS in Bochum.
In 2015, was one of two inaugural Digital Studies fellows at the Library of Congress’ John W. Kluge Center. Until 2012 I worked at the Department of Information Science at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
My background is in information science with a PhD thesis about combining Social and Semantic Web strategies for knowledge representation. Before my PhD, I completed a Magistra Artium degree in History, Media Studies and Information Science. I have several years of teaching experience. I am regularly reviewing for different journals and am frequently involved in the organization of academic conferences and events. I enjoy working in interdisciplinary research teams and have been lucky to collaborate with researchers from various disciplines in the past.
Within the fields of Computational Sociel Science, Internet Research and Web Science my research focus is on social media, new types of research data and data preservation, scholarly communication & altmetrics, web users and communication structures.
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Some of my recent and upcoming activities:
- Our work on “A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms” is now published in Public Opinion Quarterly (arxiv also has the extended version of the TED-On freamework).
- Paper with Olga Zagovora, Roberto Ulloa, and Fabian Flöck: “‘I updated the <ref> ‘: The evolution of references in the English Wikipedia and the implications for altmetrics.” appeared in Quantitative Science Studies: doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00171.
- Presentation with Indira Sen at Social Media as a Research Tool series available on YouTube: Acknowledging Potential Pitfalls in Social Media Research: Between Researchers Practices and Structured Documentation Approaches. 22.11.2022.
- Recordings from the Computational Social Science talks in the GESIS “Meet the Experts” series are available via YouTube.
- A Perspective paper with Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda has been published in Frontiers in Big Data (open access): Acknowledging Data Work in the Social Media Research Lifecycle.
- I have co-edited a book on research data management for social sciences (in German, open access).
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