Sandra Walzenbach
@sawalzenbach.bsky.social
Postdoc @uni-konstanz.de / previously @usociety.bsky.social. Interested in survey methods and data science, experiments, environmental sociology and polarization.
Maybe worth mentioning that our paper's primary focus was not on the new year's effect, but on how arson attacks against refugees spread through time and space, and how media coverage / fake news relate to that diffusion.
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Media coverage, fake news, and the diffusion of xenophobic violence: A fine-grained county-level analysis of the geographic and temporal patterns of arson attacks during the German refugee crisis 2015...
Over the year of 2015, about 800.000 refugees arrived in Germany, a number which equals around one percent of the total population. This migration process was labelled the refugee crisis and was accom...
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August 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Maybe worth mentioning that our paper's primary focus was not on the new year's effect, but on how arson attacks against refugees spread through time and space, and how media coverage / fake news relate to that diffusion.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
More soon, in our reply to the reply ;-)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
More soon, in our reply to the reply ;-)
- Perceptions of disruptive protest seem more consistent with the concept of backfiring than with the radical flank hypothesis.
June 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
- Perceptions of disruptive protest seem more consistent with the concept of backfiring than with the radical flank hypothesis.
- Qualitative results show that individual levels of support are shaped by a perceived trade-off between legitimacy and effectiveness. Mostly, the (positively perceived) media attention generated by disruptive protest does not outweigh concerns about its legitimacy.
June 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
- Qualitative results show that individual levels of support are shaped by a perceived trade-off between legitimacy and effectiveness. Mostly, the (positively perceived) media attention generated by disruptive protest does not outweigh concerns about its legitimacy.
Some key results:
- Quantitative results suggest greater public understanding for peaceful than for disruptive protest. Both forms are primarily supported by younger, environmentally concerned individuals.
- Quantitative results suggest greater public understanding for peaceful than for disruptive protest. Both forms are primarily supported by younger, environmentally concerned individuals.
June 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Some key results:
- Quantitative results suggest greater public understanding for peaceful than for disruptive protest. Both forms are primarily supported by younger, environmentally concerned individuals.
- Quantitative results suggest greater public understanding for peaceful than for disruptive protest. Both forms are primarily supported by younger, environmentally concerned individuals.