Conceptual paper on the SMO published in Publizistik
A paper on the concept and architecture of the Social Media Observatory has been published in “Publizistik” as part of a special issue on “Data, Archives and...
Recent Posts
Database of Public Speakers
The “Database of Public Speakers” or “Datenbank Öffentlicher Sprecher” (DBÖS) is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of media, organizations, and indiv...
Dataset of Candidates for Federal Election 2021
As part of our efforts to collect lists of “public speakers” and their Social Media accounts, we collected a list of all candidates running for the Federal E...
Cutting through the Fog of War on Twitter
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 Med...
SMO Work(shop) in progress
On December 3rd, the SMO team held a virtual workshop together with partners within the Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ) on research with social medi...
