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@janschwalbach.bsky.social and Oliver Watteler presented their joined work with other GESIS colleagues on Twitter Terms of Services over time. (full paper on this is published here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., blog summary by @snurb.info here snurb.info/index.php/no...) #smad2026

Court rulings and thus interpretations of the terms by judges would have the potential of shedding light on where the legal limits lie when it comes to ToS. However, Twitter/X has settled all cases outside of courts and thus has prevented judges from interpreting its rules. 7/

Changes of ToS length between 2006-2023. The documents become incresingly longer from less than a thousand to 12000 words

Having grown in length from less than a thousand to more than 12,000 words, the terms now also extend over several documents and have overall become less comprehensible. 6/

While the restrictiveness of redistribution regulations varies over time, our analysis shows that sharing full tweet objects, whether collected in the past or recently, is largely not covered by past or current ToS. Thus, there is no conclusive solution to making them accessible for reuse yet. 5/

Furthermore, we introduce and analyze a comprehensive collection of Twitter/X’s conditions for sharing Twitter/X data from 2006 to 2023 (data is freely available via GESIS: doi.org/10.7802/2847). 4/

In the article, we discuss how social media companies’ (in this case Twitter/X’s) practices to restrict free access to their data may impact the FAIRness and the reproducibility of academic research and give an overview of changes in the practices of sharing Twitter/Xdata over the past 15 years. 3/

This might be something for you...

...if you have collected Twitter/X data and are unsure whether you can share it

...if you are interested in the conflict between open and FAIR data and legal restrictions such as Terms of Service (ToS) 2/

🚨New article with Luisa Golland, Oliver Watteler, Jonas Recker & Libby Bishop in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social

From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies

doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

Super interesting research (as always) - both substantially and methodologically!

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Petition unterschreiben Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

…but don't worry about your parliamentary text input during this time: already tomorrow, @lukashetzer.bsky.social and @chrauh.bsky.social will be giving an introduction to our new #parllawspeech dataset at @comptext.bsky.social \3

For the first time in 10 years, no #parlspeech / #parllawspeech / #parl_projectos_nuevos_speech scraper will be running on my laptop for 6 months… \2

See you in 6 months 👋

My parental leave started last week and I'm looking forward to the new experiences and challenges. Best thing to do for a smooth transition into the new life: visiting the Parliament of Catalunya. \1

Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump? | TechPolicy.Press Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.

As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA

The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy.

@dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️

www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

We look at the different challenges and needs of researchers when sharing this kind of data. We cover the areas of researchers' capacities & incentives, legal & ethical challenges, and technical challenges. Furthermore, we outline potential ways forward and point to some existing solutions.

Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs - Jan Schwalbach, Reiner Mauer, 2025 Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers...

🚨New article with Reiner Mauer in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social

This might be for you if you collect or use digital trace/behavioral data (e.g. social media data) and want to share it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Super excited to be part of the #TaDa Speaker Series presenting #ParlLawSpeech and how we use it in our own research together with @janschwalbach.bsky.social!

Congrats Jihed!! Very happy for you. Hope you celebrate a lot 🍾🎉

Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

GESIS Workshop Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R Lea Kaftan and Jan Schwalbach (both GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) Online from 01 to 03 April 2025

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats?

Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research!

More info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/comp-text-an...

A revolt of the distrustful? Political trust, political protest and the democratic deficit During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters i...

New publication: "A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit", co-authored with Edgar Grande; Journal of European Public Policy. #OpenAccess

Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Replication: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

(1/8) Just published in @the-peio.bsky.social by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social : We introduces IOParlspeech, a dataset of over 600,000 statements on 75 IOs in parliamentary debates (six countries: AT, CAN, DE, UK, USA, NZL) between 1990 and 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s115...