This study investigates the varying structures of German far-right networks on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Telegram. Network analyses reveal platform-specific structures and dynamics...

How do social media, algorithms and AI influence democratic discourse? Researchers at the University of Vienna are simulating digital information spaces to investigate ways of safeguarding democracy.

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We congratulate our lab member Paul Balluff! He has successfully defended his thesis.

POLNET School on Social Network Analysis

Here’s where to catch our team at COMPTEXT 2026 this week!

by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans

POLNET School on Social Network Analysis, Universität Konstanz, 21 – 25 September 2026

Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.

The use of automated coding procedures to scale up content analysis has risen over the last years. Using a mixed-method approach, we examine researchers’ justif...

Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...

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Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a

Der aktuelle Fall einer Vergewaltigungsdrohung zeigt, wie erniedrigend diese Form der digitalen Gewalt gegen Frauen ist. Und wie rasch Ermittlungen enden können.

Deadline: November 15th, 2025