For the last weeks the whole world cannot look away from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This is also due to an ongoing ‘(dis/mis)information war’ on Social Media. To cut through the fog of war on Twitter, Philipp Kessling and I have compiled a dataset of almost all Tweets containing the word or hashtag ‘Ukraine’ in four languages: English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.

On December 3rd, the SMO team held a virtual workshop together with partners within the Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ) on research with social media data.

The Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is hiring a student assistant (m/f/d) interested in Computational Social Science for our Social Media Observatory. We are looking forward to work with you as soon as possible.

The Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is hiring a Junior Researcher (m/f/d) in the field of Computational Social Science for our Social Media Observatory. We are looking forward to work with you from June 2020 (but a later start can be discussed).

Welcome to the Social Media Observatory (SMO) at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute!