Zoltan Kmetty

New paper out in @SciReports with @AdamStefkovics. We examined how willingness to share digital data correlates with actual behavior in a data donation setting. Spoiler: We found only a moderate correlation. rdcu.be/ed3e4

Main takeaway:  People become more accepting of gay people in CEE between 1990 and 2020, but religious people accept gay people less, which effect is even more substantial in more religious countries.

Our new paper with Bulcsu Bognár, "Changing Identities of Religious People," is out: mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/2…

Fascinating new study using web-browsing data to conceptualize a taxonomy of online news by @fe_loe @judith_moeller @damian0604 @vanatteveldt doi.org/10.1177/146488…

@AdamStefkovics Thats rude! 😅

Editors sending out rejection letters right before Christmas..love ya 😀

The main result is that if there is a concept drift, you need to annotate the new content - fine-tuning with unlabelled data only slows down the performance loss.

Our new paper is out! It compares different approaches to fine-tune a transformer model for a long-running classification task. doi.org/10.1007/s42979…

Get ready for IC2S2 2025!!

Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science @TU_Muenchen - please share the information! #CSS More info here: hfp.tum.de/fileadmin/w00c…

I'm on a research visit at the GESIS CSS Centre in Cologne this week. Today, I will talk about political polarization on YouTube - gesis.org/en/research/co…. I'm looking forward to discussing the advancements in digital data collection with colleagues here.

Are you working on data donations? We'd love to hear about your research at ESRA25. We'll organize a session titled 'Internal and external validity in data donation studies' w/ @MattEagle09 @zkmetty @bellastrum @koltaijuli @LBoeschoten europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2025/sessi…

🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN! 📍Norrköping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025 Call for Abstracts - DDL: Feb 24, 2025 Call for Tutorials - DDL: Jan 17, 2025 🔗Explore details & submit: ic2s2-2025.org Stay tuned for exciting keynote announcements!

Happy to see this published! 🧵 In this paper we show that certain types of digital trace data can be substantially biased. If what you want to measure happens across devices/browsers/platforms, and you fail to capture all these traces...bias will occur #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It was great to be part of this nice team! 😊

We built powerful software for doing experimental science on social media -- we can transparently change what people see on multiple platforms simultaneously. You may be able to use this infrastructure for your research too. A🧵on what it can do. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Data donations are 🔥⬆️🔥 But getting enough participants can be tough 🤔. @NicoPfiffner @elizamitova @sina_jb & me report on pros & cons of three recruiting strategies in a new & #OpenAccess data donation SI @CCR_OpenJournal. What we learned: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view/8…

The suspension of 21 Hungarian universities from EU Horizon affects the whole academic system in the country. Read our Correspondence in @Nature at nature.com/articles/d4158… and the full survey report of the @HungarianYA at go.nature.com/4cyeb3h. We urge all stakeholders to act.

@AdamStefkovics Thats a joke. Write to the editors.

Some of our hypotheses were not supported in one of our study. The main criticism of the reviewer was that “the results are disappointing “. A top journal…

Second day, another poster at #IC2S2. We analysed how people could estimate their number of Facebook friends with selected names, using donated FB data. Spoiler: badly. For more check our poster!