Studium

2013-2016 M.A. Soziologie, Universität Leipzig

2011-2013 B.A. Soziologie, Universität Leipzig 

2009-2013 B.A. Philosophie, Universität Leipzig

Akademische Berufstätigkeit

seit 01/2017 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei Prof. Dr. Roger Berger am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Methodenlehre (Projekt "ODYCCEUS"), Universität Leipzig

seit 10/2016 Lehrbeauftragter im Academic Lab (Workshop "Einführung in die Statistik mit Stata"), Universität Leipzig

2016 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Schulforschung (Lehrpraxis-im-Transfer-Projekt "Professionelle Kommunikation in der Schule"), Universität Leipzig

2014-2016 Studentische Hilfskraft/Lehrgangsleiter (IT-Schulung für Studierende "IBM SPSS Statistics") am Universitätsrechenzentrum, Universität Leipzig

2014-2015 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft/Tutor bei Prof. Dr. Roger Berger am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Methodenlehre ("Multivariate Analyseverfahren"), Universität Leipzig

2013-2014 Studentische Hilfskraft/Tutor bei Prof. Dr. Roger Berger am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Methodenlehre ("Einführung in die Statistik"), Universität Leipzig

 

 

OPINION DYNAMICS AND CULTURAL CONFLICT IN EUROPEAN SPACES

Homepage https://www.odycceus.eu/

Mitarbeit Roger Berger, Stephan Poppe, Marcel Sarközi

Förderung European Union, Horizon 2020, FETPROACT-01-2016, Fördersumme Teilprojekt Leipzig 333'000 €

Projektpartner

• MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE MPI MIS, LEIPZIG
• UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI, VENEZIA
• CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB, GÖTEBORG
• UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6, PARIS
• UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT - PARIS 7, PARIS
• VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT, BRUSSEL
• UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Projekt

Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crises due to cultural differences and diverging world-views? Would this facilitate early detection and perhaps even ways to resolve conflicts before they lead to violence? The Odycceus project answers all these questions affirmatively. It will develop the conceptual foundations, methodologies, and tools to translate this bold vision into reality and demonstrate its power in a large number of cases.

Specifically, the project seeks conceptual breakthroughs in Global Systems Science, including a fine-grained representation of cultural conflicts based on conceptual spaces and sophisticated text analysis, extensions of game theory to handle games with both divergent interests and divergent mindsets, and new models of alignment and polarization dynamics. The project will also develop an open modular platform, called Penelope, that integrates tools for the complete pipeline, from data scraped from social media and digital sources, to visualization of the analyses and models developed by the project. The platform features an infrastructure allowing developers to provide new plug-ins for additional steps in the pipeline, share them with others, and jointly develop the platform as an open source community. Finally, the project will build two innovative participatory tools, the Opinion Observatory and the Opinion Facilitator, which allow citizens to monitor, visualize and influence the dynamics of conflict situations that involve heterogeneous cultural biases and non-transparent entanglements of multilateral interests.