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Wähner, M. (2025), Dark Web. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted version.
Wähner, M. (2023, September). “Don’t Research Us“– What Mastodon Instance Rules Say About Scientific Practices. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden der DGPuK: Das Zusammenspiel von Methodik und Forschungsethik in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung in Potsdam.
Wähner, M.; Deubel, A.; Breuer, J. & Weller, K. (2024, März). Collecting and Archiving Mastodon Data – Ethical Enquiries on Decentralized Networks. Vortrag auf der DNB Tagung Nachhaltige Archivierung sozialer Medien – Twitter und danach in Frankfurt am Main.
Wähner, M. & Breuer, J. (2024, Juli). Beyond Twitter: Data Ethics in the Decentralized Social Media Landscape. The Case of Mastodon Instance Rules. Vortrag auf der Social Media & Society Konferenz in London (Panel: Digital Methods).
Lind, F., Song, H., Boomgaarden, H., Kathirgamalingam, A., Syed Ali, K., & Vliegenthart, R. (2025). Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns. International Journal of Communication, 19, 26. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23510
Stieglitz, S., Mirbabaie, M., Deubel, A., Braun, L. M., & Kissmer, T. (2023). The potential of digital nudging to bridge the gap between environmental attitude and behavior in the usage of smart home applications. International Journal of Information Management, 72, 102665.
Breuer, J., Weller, K., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (2023). The Role of Participants in Online Privacy Research: Ethical and Practical Consideration. In S. Trepte & P. K. Masur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media (pp. 314–323). Routledge.
Munzert, S., Ramirez-Ruiz, S., Watteler, O., Breuer, J., Batzdorfer, V., Eder, C., … Yang, J. (2023, June 28). Publishing Combined Web Tracking and Survey Data.https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/y4v8z
Bowman, N. D., Velez, J., Wulf, T., Breuer, J., Yoshimura, K., & Resignato, L. J. (2022). That bygone feeling: Controller ergonomics and nostalgia in video game play. Psychology of Popular Media. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000382
Breuer, J., Kohne, J., & Mohseni, M. R. (2023). Using YouTube data for social science research. In J. Skopek (Ed.), Research Handbook on Digital Sociology (pp. 258–277). Edward Elgar.
Breuer, J., Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Bishop, L., Kondyli, D., & Linardis, A. (2021). Informed consent for linking survey and social media data—Differences between platforms and data types. IASSIST Quarterly, 45(1), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.29173/iq988
Breuer, J., Wulf, T., & Mohseni, M. R. (2020). New Formats, New Methods: Computational Approaches as a Way Forward for Media Entertainment Research. Media and Communication, 8(3), 147–152. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i3.3530
Breuer, J., Bishop, L., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (2020). The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships. New Media & Society, 22(11), 2058–2080. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820924622
Deubel, A. & Wähner, M. (2022, November). Spuren im Netz – Was Social Media-Daten anderen über uns verraten. Bundesweite Aktionstage „Netzpolitik & Demokratie“. Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (online).
Deubel, A. (2022, September). Increasing Algorithm Literacy – Exploration of Algorithmic Profiling on Social Media Platforms. “Data Literacy – Key competence for a fair digital society?” Digitalisation Research Seminar (DigiSem) 2022, Nürnberg, Germany.
Huseljić, K. & Wähner, M. (2021, März). Implementing a „Strong Democracy“ on a local level. The Role of Incentives and Local Participation for Legitimacy Beliefs. Local Politics. Political Studies Association (PSA), Belfast (online).
Masch, L., Kieslich, K., Huseljić, K., Wähner, M., & Neef, J.-S. (2021). R – Ein Einführungsskript. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. DOI: 10.24337/00001
Mirbabaie, M., Bunker, D., Stieglitz, S., & Deubel, A. (2020). Who sets the tone? Determining the impact of convergence behaviour archetypes in social media crisis communication. Information Systems Frontiers, 22(2), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-019-09917-x
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Niederelz, C., Nguyen, P. , Wähner, M., Frieß, D., Becker, M., Braun, A. & Stodden, R. (2022). Die Corona-Pandemie als Katalysator der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung? Ergebnisse einer Befragungsstudie in Kommunalverwaltungen in NRW. Verwaltung & Management, 28(4), 186-192, https://doi.org/10.5771/0947-9856-2022-4-186
Scharkow, M., Mangold, F., Stier, S., & Breuer, J. (2020). How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(6), 2761–2763. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918279117
Schmitt, J. B., Breuer, J., & Wulf, T. (2021). From cognitive overload to digital detox: Psychological implications of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106899
Stier, S., Breuer, J., Siegers, P., & Thorson, K. (2020). Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data: Key Issues in Developing an Emerging Field. Social Science Computer Review, 38(5), 503–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319843669
Wähner, M. (2020, November). Political Online Participation at the Local Level. Revisiting the challenges of democratic inclusion in theory & practice, Zürich (online).
Wähner, M. & Huseljić, K. (2020, Juli). All politics is local. Resources, incentives and the likelihood for political online participation in top down procedures. Participatory Governance: How Participatory Systems Interact with Representative Institutions. Political Studies Association (PSA), Edinburgh (online).
Wulf, T., Breuer, J., & Schmitt, J. B. (2021). Escaping the pandemic present: The relationship between nostalgic media use, escapism, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandem-ic. Psychology of Popular Media. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/ppm0000357
