The many faces of GESIS
Vita
I am the team lead for Digital Society Observatory in the Department Computational Social Science at GESIS in Cologne.The Team
The services and research of the team Digital Society Observatory focus on the observation of society through the lens of digital behavioral data, with a particular emphasis on data collected from online platforms. The team conducts substantive and methodological research on digital society and the tools that can be used to study it.
Service
The Digital Society Observatory team contributes to multiple services: the GESIS Web Data, the GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data, and the GESIS Consulting on Digital Behavioral Data.Research
My research agenda encompasses political sociology, computational social science, and digital behavioral data. One key area of my substantive research investigates how citizens and political elites are affected by and adapt to the increasing digitization and technological transformation of the political and social sphere. Please visit my Google Scholar page for an overview of recent publications & working papers.Publications
Journal article
Landesvatter, Camille, and Paul C. Bauer. 2025. "How Valid Are Trust Survey Measures? New Insights From Open-Ended Probing Data and Supervised Machine Learning." Sociological Methods & Research 54 (2): 534-564. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241241234871.
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Muna Adem, Jule Adriaans, Esra Akdeniz, Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea, Henrik K. Andersen, Daniel Auer, Flavio Azevedo, Oke Bahnsen, Ling Bai, Dave Balzer, Paul C. Bauer, Gerrit Bauer, Markus Baumann, Sharon Baute, Verena Benoit, Julian Bernauer, Carl Berning, Anna Berthold, Felix S. Bethke, Thomas Biegert, Katharina Blinzler, Johannes N. Blumenberg, Licia Bobzien, Andrea Bohman, Thijs Bol, Amie Bostic, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Katharina Burgdorf, Kaspar Burger, Kathrin Busch, Juan-Carlos Castillo, Nathan Chan, Pablo Christmann, Roxanne Connelly, Christian S. Czymara, Elena Damian, Eline A. de Rooij, Alejandro Ecker, Achim Edelmann, Christina Eder, Maureen A. Eger, Simon Ellerbrock, Anna Forke, Andrea Forster, Danilo Freire, Chris Gaasendam, Konstantin Gavras, Vernon Gayle, Theresa Gessler, Timo Gnambs, Amélie Godefroidt, Max Grömping, Martin Groß, Stefan Gruber, Tobias Gummer, Andreas Hadjar, Verena Halbherr, Jan Paul Heisig, Sebastian Hellmeier, Stefanie Heyne, Magdalena Hirsch, Mikael Hjerm, Oshrat Hochman, Jan H. Höffler, Andreas Hövermann, Sophia Hunger, Christian Hunkler, Nora Huth-Stöckle, Zsófia S. Ignácz, Sabine Israel, Laura Jacobs, Jannes Jacobsen, Bastian Jaeger, Sebastian Jungkunz, Nils Jungmann, Jennifer Kanjana, Mathias Kauff, Salman Khan, Sayak Khatua, Manuel Kleinert, Julia Klinger, Jan-Philipp Kolb, Marta Kołczyńska, John Kuk, Katharina Kunißen, Dafina Kurti Sinatra, Alexander Langenkamp, Robin C. Lee, Philipp M. Lersch, David Liu, Lea-Maria Löbel, Philipp Lutscher, Matthias Mader, Joan E. Madia, Natalia Malancu, Luis Maldonado, Helge Marahrens, Nicole Martin, Paul Martinez, Jochen Mayerl, Oscar J. Mayorga, Robert McDonnell, Patricia McManus, Kyle McWagner, Cecil Meeusen, Daniel Meierrieks, Jonathan Mellon, Friedolin Merhout, Samuel Merk, Daniel Meyer, Leticia Micheli, Jonathan Mijs, Cristóbal Moya, Marcel Neunhoeffer, Daniel Nüst, Olav Nygård, Fabian Ochsenfeld, Gunnar Otte, Anna Pechenkina, Mark Pickup, Christopher Prosser, Louis Raes, Kevin Ralston, Miguel Ramos, Frank Reichert, Arne Roets, Jonathan Rogers, Guido Ropers, Robin Samuel, Gregor Sand, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Ariela Schachter, Merlin Schaeffer, David Schieferdecker, Elmar Schlueter, Katja Schmidt, Regine Schmidt, Alexander Schmidt-Catran, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Jürgen Schneider, Martijn Schoonvelde, Julia Schulte-Cloos, Sandy Schumann, Reinhard Schunck, Julian Seuring, Henning Silber, Willem Sleegers, Nico Sonntag, Alexander Staudt, Nadia Steiber, Nils D. Steiner, Sebastian Sternberg, Dieter Stiers, Dragana Stojmenovska, Nora Storz, Erich Striessnig, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Jordan W. Suchow, Janna Teltemann, Andrey Tibajev, Brian Tung, Giacomo Vagni, Jasper Van Assche, Meta van der Linden, Jolanda van der Noll, Arno Van Hootegem, Stefan Vogtenhuber, Bogdan Voicu, Fieke Wagemans, Nadja Wehl, Hannah Werner, Brenton M. Wiernik, Fabian Winter, Christof Wolf, Cary Wu, Yuki Yamada, Björn Zakula, Nan Zhang, Conrad Ziller, Stefan Zins, Tomasz Żółtak, and Hung H.V. Nguyen. 2025. "The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions." Royal Society Open Science 12 (3): 241038. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241038.
Presentation at a conference
Bauer, Paul C.. 2025. "Predicting populism: Methodological and substantive insights from supervised classification of social media data." 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain • 26 - 28 June 2025, 2025-06-26.