Marcel Garz

Media | Digital Platforms | Political Economy

The Global Social Media Experiment: Team Sweden

Almost 5 billion people use social media worldwide. Emerging evidence suggests that effects of social media on political attitudes, trust, and well-being may be different in different countries. In the Global Social Media Experiment, hundreds of researchers from more...

The Data Methods Initiative: A new online seminar series

Hosted by the Media, Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping University, the newly-founded Data Methods Initiative organizes online seminars on social science research that applies tools from computational linguistics, computer vision, and machine learning....

7th Economics of Media Bias Workshop

The next Economics of Media Bias Workshop is scheduled for February 29 and March 1, 2024, at the University of Cologne. The event features 14 presentations and is organized in collaboration with Johannes Münster, Mattias Polborn, and Chris Roth. The keynote speech...

6th Economics of Media Bias Workshop

We’re happy to announce that the next media bias workshop will take place on March 8 and 9, 2023, at ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. Julia Cagé and Theresa Kuchler will deliver keynote speeches. The workshop is organized by the Research Network...

Funding from Swedish Competition Authority

In a joint project entitled “Competition, multimarket contact, and quality of local newspaper coverage”, Mart Ots and I investigate the role of competition between media outlets for news quality. We use a combination of content analysis by human coders and...