Katrin Weller
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrin Weller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Weller |
| SIGNATURE | WELLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3799-1146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Access is not enough! Reconceptualizing Data Quality as a Public Value in Times of Platformization and European Regulation
Questions regarding quality digital platform data have gained significant attention and research focus in recent years as new error frameworks and data quality dimensions have been developed. With this contribution we link recent work from the area of data quality research with critical reflections on platformization and argue that the quality of online platform data cannot solely be understood as a methodological, internal research construct, bu…
Can 20 Years of Twitter Be Preserved
As Twitter – now rebranded as X – celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2026, the platform has established itself as a long-standing component of many people’s everyday and professional lives. Through its lens, we have witnessed contemporary events unfold in real time: elections and political upheavals, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, social movements, and cultural moments. Twitter became a space where society’s perspectives on an ex…
Datcha—Introducing a Tool to Track Data Changes and Measure (In)Consistency in Mobile Platform Data
Mobile online platform data are inherently dynamic and often ephemeral: content can be deleted, added, or edited over time. Because mobile communication research relies heavily on such platform-derived data, systematic (non-random) changes can create serious data-quality and reproducibility problems. To address this, we developed Datcha, an application that quantifies dataset consistency using standardized indicators. Datcha additionally supports…
Science communicators, flat-earthers, or fitness coaches
In this study, we undertake an extensive analysis of YouTube channels that reference research publications in their video descriptions, offering a unique insight into the intersection of digital media and academia. Our investigation focuses on identifying the actors behind YouTube channels that reference scholarly publications, and analyzing the types of content these actors share. Specifically we are interested in three principal aspects: the ba…
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors
Search engines are both frequently used and widely trusted sources of current political information. While research has examined the different stages of information seeking via search, the question of how political preferences and sociodemographic factors impact political online search has received less attention. In particular, the way in which attitudinal factors, such as sentiment toward a politician or interest in their personal life motivate…
“I updated the ”
With this work, we present a publicly available data set of the history of all the references (more than 55 million) ever used in the English Wikipedia until June 2019. We have applied a new method for identifying and monitoring references in Wikipedia, so that for each reference we can provide data about associated actions: creation, modifications, deletions, and reinsertions. The high accuracy of this method and the resulting data set was confi…
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
Research Ethics Practices in a Changing Social Media Landscape
In our work we study practical approaches to internet research ethics with a logitudinal perspective. We have interviewed more than 40 social media researchers in 2013-2014 using a semi-structured qualitative interview approach. From these interviews we gained insights into the challenges of everyday research practices at the various stages of the research process, as well as into motivations for specific approaches and critical reflections on re…
Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten
The book is based on practical requirements for the management of quantitative research data in small to medium-sized research projects in the social sciences, which generate and analyse data, save original data and archive and make them available for further use in the long term. In order to equip scientists with the tools to specifically meet these requirements, typical questions of data-based research projects are addressed on the basis of app…
Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten
Die elf Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbandes behandeln Grundlagen und Lösungen zu unterschiedlichen Themen des Forschungsdatenmanagements, wie etwa zu Datentypen und Lebenszyklen von Daten, zur systematischen Planung und Umsetzung des Forschungsdatenmanagements, zum Datenschutz und den aktuellen Rechtsnormen, zu Regeln der Datenorganisation und zu den Abläufen in der Datenaufbereitung, zum Data Sharing sowie zur Sekundäranalyse von Forschungsda…
Archiving information from geotagged tweets to promote reproducibility and comparability in social media research
Sharing social media research datasets allows for reproducibility and peer-review, but it is very often difficult or even impossible to achieve due to legal restrictions and can also be ethically questionable. What is more, research data repositories and other research infrastructure and research support institutions are only starting to target social media researchers. In this paper, we present a practical solution to sharing social media data w…
Think Before You Collect
This chapter discusses important challenges of designing the data collection setup for social media studies. It outlines how it is necessary to carefully think about which data to collect and to use, and to recognize the effects that a specific data collection approach may have on the types of analyses that can be carried out and the results that can be expected in a study. We will highlight important questions one should ask before setting up a …
Twitter and Society
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Tw…
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
Archiving information from geotagged tweets to promote reproducibility and comparability in social media research
Sharing social media research datasets allows for reproducibility and peer-review, but it is very often difficult or even impossible to achieve due to legal restrictions and can also be ethically questionable. What is more, research data repositories and other research infrastructure and research support institutions are only starting to target social media researchers. In this paper, we present a practical solution to sharing social media data w…
Twitter and Society
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Tw…
Think Before You Collect
This chapter discusses important challenges of designing the data collection setup for social media studies. It outlines how it is necessary to carefully think about which data to collect and to use, and to recognize the effects that a specific data collection approach may have on the types of analyses that can be carried out and the results that can be expected in a study. We will highlight important questions one should ask before setting up a …
Archiving information from geotagged tweets to promote reproducibility and comparability in social media research
Sharing social media research datasets allows for reproducibility and peer-review, but it is very often difficult or even impossible to achieve due to legal restrictions and can also be ethically questionable. What is more, research data repositories and other research infrastructure and research support institutions are only starting to target social media researchers. In this paper, we present a practical solution to sharing social media data w…
Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten
The book is based on practical requirements for the management of quantitative research data in small to medium-sized research projects in the social sciences, which generate and analyse data, save original data and archive and make them available for further use in the long term. In order to equip scientists with the tools to specifically meet these requirements, typical questions of data-based research projects are addressed on the basis of app…
Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten
Die elf Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbandes behandeln Grundlagen und Lösungen zu unterschiedlichen Themen des Forschungsdatenmanagements, wie etwa zu Datentypen und Lebenszyklen von Daten, zur systematischen Planung und Umsetzung des Forschungsdatenmanagements, zum Datenschutz und den aktuellen Rechtsnormen, zu Regeln der Datenorganisation und zu den Abläufen in der Datenaufbereitung, zum Data Sharing sowie zur Sekundäranalyse von Forschungsda…
Research Ethics Practices in a Changing Social Media Landscape
In our work we study practical approaches to internet research ethics with a logitudinal perspective. We have interviewed more than 40 social media researchers in 2013-2014 using a semi-structured qualitative interview approach. From these interviews we gained insights into the challenges of everyday research practices at the various stages of the research process, as well as into motivations for specific approaches and critical reflections on re…
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
“I updated the ”
With this work, we present a publicly available data set of the history of all the references (more than 55 million) ever used in the English Wikipedia until June 2019. We have applied a new method for identifying and monitoring references in Wikipedia, so that for each reference we can provide data about associated actions: creation, modifications, deletions, and reinsertions. The high accuracy of this method and the resulting data set was confi…
Science communicators, flat-earthers, or fitness coaches
In this study, we undertake an extensive analysis of YouTube channels that reference research publications in their video descriptions, offering a unique insight into the intersection of digital media and academia. Our investigation focuses on identifying the actors behind YouTube channels that reference scholarly publications, and analyzing the types of content these actors share. Specifically we are interested in three principal aspects: the ba…
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors
Search engines are both frequently used and widely trusted sources of current political information. While research has examined the different stages of information seeking via search, the question of how political preferences and sociodemographic factors impact political online search has received less attention. In particular, the way in which attitudinal factors, such as sentiment toward a politician or interest in their personal life motivate…
Access is not enough! Reconceptualizing Data Quality as a Public Value in Times of Platformization and European Regulation
Questions regarding quality digital platform data have gained significant attention and research focus in recent years as new error frameworks and data quality dimensions have been developed. With this contribution we link recent work from the area of data quality research with critical reflections on platformization and argue that the quality of online platform data cannot solely be understood as a methodological, internal research construct, bu…
Can 20 Years of Twitter Be Preserved
As Twitter – now rebranded as X – celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2026, the platform has established itself as a long-standing component of many people’s everyday and professional lives. Through its lens, we have witnessed contemporary events unfold in real time: elections and political upheavals, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, social movements, and cultural moments. Twitter became a space where society’s perspectives on an ex…
Datcha—Introducing a Tool to Track Data Changes and Measure (In)Consistency in Mobile Platform Data
Mobile online platform data are inherently dynamic and often ephemeral: content can be deleted, added, or edited over time. Because mobile communication research relies heavily on such platform-derived data, systematic (non-random) changes can create serious data-quality and reproducibility problems. To address this, we developed Datcha, an application that quantifies dataset consistency using standardized indicators. Datcha additionally supports…
Computer Science (7 works) · Social media (6 works) · Data science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Public relations (3 works)