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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Publication alert (JQD:DM): @dougaparry.bsky.social , @mjemmer.bsky.social , and I investigated the daily times, gratifications, and locations of, and activities alongside smartphone and app use in Germany using a combination of surveys, MESM, logging, and data donations 📱. doi.org/10.51685/jqd...

From Screen Time to Daily Rhythms: A Mixed Methods Study of Smartphone Use Among German Adults | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

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Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social · Sep 13

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally.

R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are very pleased that our young Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society has been included in #Scopus and will receive its first CiteScore next year: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society Accepted into Scopus

The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), launched in 2021, has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and will receive its first CiteScore in 2026. This marks an important step in the jour...

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Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social · Aug 22

To investigate media effects, do we have to think more clearly about time ⌚? Our new publication in the 🎉*Journal of Communication*🎉 investigates how our conceptualizations of time can affect our conclusions: doi.org/10.1093/joc/... (1/6)

Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being

Abstract. When assessing media effects, we seldom consider how they change over time. Especially with the prevalence of smartphone use as short-lived, frag

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 Wave 6 (2024) of the Weizenbaum Panel is now available in the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer. Check it out if you‘re interested in Germans‘ media use, political participation, civic norms, and more! panel.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/findings/...

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Jun 23

Better late than never

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Jun 15

Pure luck, I found snacks offered on a table next to a session I attended and snuck them in… like a chipmunk

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Jun 15

Actual footage of me eating a tiny snack instead of lunch in-between sessions at #ICA25

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · Jun 15

Presenting new #ICA25 fellows, our very own Scott Campbell and Lynn Schofield Clark! Congratulations!

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Jun 13

No plans for 3pm yet at #ica25? Join us in our @icamobile.bsky.social session featuring great presentations and a discussion on mobile methods and their lack of standardization in research!

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social
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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · Jun 13

#ICA25 Denver is officially underway! 🎉

Mobile Comm kicks off tomorrow with sessions at 12PM & 3PM — don’t miss talks by @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @annafreytag.bsky.social, @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @annastockmann.bsky.social, @dougaparry.bsky.social & more! 📱💬

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · Jun 13

#ICA25 Denver is officially underway! 🎉

Mobile Comm kicks off tomorrow with sessions at 12PM & 3PM — don’t miss talks by @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @annafreytag.bsky.social, @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @annastockmann.bsky.social, @dougaparry.bsky.social & more! 📱💬

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · May 23

This paper is supposed to help researchers handle raw Android log data in a systematic manner and facilitate access to this rich source of information 🔑. Feel free to use and share it. Feedback is very welcome!

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · May 23

The supp. material includes a working rendition in R code, an example data set with raw Android log data, and the data set that results from applying the code to it. There are also lists that helps identify background processes and app names 📋 - with a script to retrieve them.

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · May 23

This primer first elaborates on the potential of and difficulties when handling raw Android log data 📊. Then, the process of extracting glances, sessions, and episodes of use is described in a hands-on guideline with pseudo-code to follow along 👩‍💻.

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · May 23

🚨 Publication alert: Android log data are increasingly used in research, so @dougaparry.bsky.social and I have developed the first step-by-step tutorial on how to actually extract behavioral metrics from them. Read it now in Computational Communication Research: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Extracting Meaningful Measures of Smartphone Usage from Android Event Log Data: A Methodological Primer | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

As smartphones become increasingly integral to daily life, their importance for understanding human behavior will only continue to grow. Recognizing the potential of objective data on smartphone usage...

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀

Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?

✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Mar 3

Congrats! And stay strong 😂

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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congrats and good luck!

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