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  • Understanding the impact of the Internet in general – and more precisely social media plat- forms – on democracy and political behavior has become a central task for interdisciplinary social science research; it is important to policy makers, and in the best interest of all of us. While in the beginning platforms sparked optimistic views on a digital public sphere with new modes of political participation and global connectivity, attention now has shifted to challenges such as hate speech, polarization, computationally augmented propaganda and misinformation, or the rules set by the platform economy. We talked with Philipp Lo- renz-Spreen who with colleagues published a systematic review on the topic in “Nature Hu- man Behaviour” that covered a final sample of almost 500 studies. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen is a research scientist at the Research Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He received his PhD in Theo- retical Physics from TU Berlin in 2018 and was awarded the Junior Scientists Prize of the Leopoldina in 2021. From October 2024 on Philipp will lead the junior research group “Com- putational Social Science” at the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TU Dresden. The interview was conducted by Leon Fröhling, who met Philipp Lorenz-Spreen during the Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC2023) on November 14 in Cologne, Germany. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. (en)
  • Understanding the impact of the Internet in general – and more precisely social media plat- forms – on democracy and political behavior has become a central task for interdisciplinary social science research; it is important to policy makers, and in the best interest of all of us. While in the beginning platforms sparked optimistic views on a digital public sphere with new modes of political participation and global connectivity, attention now has shifted to challenges such as hate speech, polarization, computationally augmented propaganda and misinformation, or the rules set by the platform economy. We talked with Philipp Lo- renz-Spreen who with colleagues published a systematic review on the topic in “Nature Hu- man Behaviour” that covered a final sample of almost 500 studies. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen is a research scientist at the Research Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He received his PhD in Theo- retical Physics from TU Berlin in 2018 and was awarded the Junior Scientists Prize of the Leopoldina in 2021. From October 2024 on Philipp will lead the junior research group “Com- putational Social Science” at the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TU Dresden. The interview was conducted by Leon Fröhling, who met Philipp Lorenz-Spreen during the Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC2023) on November 14 in Cologne, Germany. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. (de)
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  • Lorenz-Spreen, Ph. (2024). Expert Insights into Social Media and Democracy. An Interview with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen. (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 20). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. (en)
  • Lorenz-Spreen, Ph. (2024). Expert Insights into Social Media and Democracy. An Interview with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen. (GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, 20). Cologne: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. (de)
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