The many faces of GESIS
Research
Conferences
Schmidt, F., Stier, S., Otto, L. (May 24, 2023). Incivility in context: How content, platform and individual factors predict exposure to incivility. ICA-Preconference: Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons across Countries, Platforms, and Time. Toronto, Canada.
Schmidt, F., Mangold, F., Stier, S., Ulloa, R. (May 27, 2023). Facebook as an Avenue to News: A Comparison and Validation of Approaches to Identify Facebook Referrals. 73rd Annual ICA Conference. Social Media Analytics and Analysis, Standard Paper Session, Computational Methods. Toronto, Canada.
Schmidt, F., Paltra, D., Sältzer, M., Masch, L. (July 19, 2023). Facing the Voters – Individual and Institutional Determinants of
Personalization in Social Media Images. 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Copenhagen, Denmark.
Publications
Journal article
Maier, Michaela, Jürgen Maier, Lea Gorski, and Felix Schmidt. 2025. "Beyond a Negativity Bias: Explaining the Consumption of Positive and Negative Political Information Using WebTracking and Experience Sampling Data." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251359658.
Ulloa, Roberto, Frank Mangold, Felix Schmidt, Judith Gilsbach, and Sebastian Stier. 2025. "Beyond time delays: How web scraping distorts measures of online news consumption." Communication Methods and Measures 19 (3): 179–200. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2482538.
Schmidt, Felix, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Roberto Ulloa. 2024. "Facebook as an Avenue to News: A Comparison and Validation of Approaches to Identify Facebook Referrals." Political Communication 41 (6): 921–943. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2342983.
Schmidt, Felix, Sebastian Stier, and Lukas Otto. 2024. "Incivility in comparison: How context, content and personal characteristics predict exposure to uncivil content." Social Science Computer Review 42 (5): 1120-1135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241252638.
Chapter in an edited book
Thomas, Fabian, Michaela Maier, Lukas Otto, Felix Schmidt, Sebastian Stier, and Lea Gorski. 2024. "Die Rezeption politischer Informationen während des Bundestagswahlkampfes 2021." In Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2021, edited by Harald Schoen, and Bernhard Weßels, 413–442. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42694-1_16.
Data/Software
Binder, Barbara, Stephan Linzbach, Frank Mangold, and Felix Schmidt. 2025. ALLBUS 2023 - DBD Add-On. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14453.
Presentation at a conference
Ulloa, Roberto, Frank Mangold, Felix Schmidt, Sebastian Stier, and Judith Gilsbach. 2025. "Beyond Time Delays: How Ex-Situ Web Scraping Distorts Measures of Online News Consumption." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, 2025-07-22.
Schmidt, Felix, and Sebastian Stier. 2025. "How Media Exposure Shapes Affective Polarization." GOR 25: General Online Research Conference, 2025-04-01.
Schmidt, Felix, and Sebastian Stier. 2025. "How Media Exposure Shapes Affective Polarization." Comptext Conference 2025, Wien, 2025-04-26.
Schmidt, Felix, and Sebastian Stier. 2025. "How Media Exposure Shapes Affective Polarization." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, 2025-07-22.
Stier, Sebastian, Felix Schmidt, and Frank Mangold. 2024. "Breaking structural inequalities? Exposure to political news within Facebook." 14th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA). Cologne, Germany, 2024-06-04.
Schmidt, Felix, Dylan Paltra, Marius Saeltzer, and Lena Masch. 2024. "Facing the Voters: Individual and Institutional Determinants of Personalization in Social Media Images." 6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024-05-04.
Schmidt, Felix, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Roberto Ulloa. 2023. "Facebook as an avenue to news: A comparison and validation of approaches to identify Facebook referrals." 73rd Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 2023-05-27.
Schmidt, Felix, Dylan Paltra, Marius Saeltzer, and Lena Masch. 2023. "Facing the Voters: Individual and Institutuional Determinants of Personalization in Social Media Images." 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023-07-19.
Schmidt, Felix, Sebastian Stier, and Lukas Otto. 2023. "Incivility in context: How content, platform and individual factors predict exposure to incivility." ICA-Preconference: Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons across Countries, Platforms, and Time. Toronto, Canada, 2023-05-24.
Otto, Lukas, Michaela Maier, Fabian Thomas, Felix Schmidt, and Sebastian Stier. 2022. "Capturing campaign communication in multiple media environments: A combination of screenshot data donations, mobile surveys, and web tracking approaches." Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2022-05-26.
Stier, Sebastian, Felix Schmidt, Lukas Otto, Fabian Thomas, and Michaela Maier. 2022. "Erfassung von Wahlkampfkommunikation in multiplen Kommunikationskanälen: Eine Verknüpfung von Befragungen, Mobile Experience Sampling und Web Track." Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 2022-03-25.