Election Research in the Age of Regulated Data Access Under the EU Digital Services Act

Prof. Johannes Breuer publishes, together with Philipp Darius, Simon Kruschinski, Felicia Loecherbach, Jasmin Riedl, and Sebastian Stier, the article “Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act” in Internet Policy Review. The article analyses the implications of regulated platform data access for empirical election research in Europe.

On the Credibility of Online Images

Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer and his co-authors re-examined an earlier study by Shen et al. (2019) on the credibility of online images. The results were published in the academic journal Media Psychology.

Public Online Engagement with Science on TikTok

As part of the conference “Wissenschaftskommunikation auf TikTok: Forschung und Praxis” (EN: Science Communication on TikTok: Research and Practice) at the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Birte Kuhle holds a presentation on November 28, 2025, on adapting science communication to the technical infrastructures and logic of TikTok, as well as their connection to user engagement.