lorenzspreen.bsky.social
Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ScaDS.AI at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy.
Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
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I will also argue that this may be why we have struggled to deal with their power over the past decade, and that urgently needed solutions require a fundamental shift away from top-down measures toward systemic measures to regain our collective attention.
Come by Stage 2 if your are there!
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I will argue for a systemic understanding of the relationship between digitalization and politics. The power of platforms lies in their ability to capture our attention at the micro level, which differs from the top-down power structures we are used to from before digitalization.
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Finally, we suggest to look for inspiration in fields like public health or climate science to develop a triangulating between experimental methods on the individual level, observational methods and causal inference on the collective level, and theory and computational methods to bridge the gap:
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And even if the methods are well suited for the outcome measure in question, we argue that the treatment should involve an actionable interventions, such as algorithmic changes or alterations of the platform affordances instead of broad interventions that are unrealistic to implement.
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We walk through several properties that are typical for complex systems and specifically for social media and how individual-level approaches to infer causality may be misguided and how that can be mitigated:
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2-A Systematic Review of Worldwide Causal and Correlational Evidence on Digital Media and Democracy @nathumbehav.nature.com
Replication: ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Authors' response: “I am delighted to see this effort and very grateful to the authors and it is good to see the stability...
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Maybe our paper about the issues around online experiment ethics is of interest here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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thanks for digging this up