Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich

Professor of Political Data Science, Bavarian School of Public Policy | Technical University of Munich

simon.hegelich@hfp.tum.de
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Participations and Contributions
Publications
Participations and Contributions
All posts
Digital public sphere

Measuring opinion power and diversity on the Internet: Towards a new conception of regulating media concentration

Project

What could control of media concentration that secures the functioning of the political public sphere in the age of digitalisation look like?

Digital society

Differential Privacy: New approaches for managing social big data

Project

The research project explored how valid statistical conclusions can be drawn without violating individual privacy. During the project a software environment for implementing differential privacy was developed.

Digital responsibility

Data

Glossary

A simple explanation of the term data is to see data as symbols containing information. These symbols are interpreted by the recipients of the data.

Publications

  • Hegelich, Simon (2020)

    Facebook needs to share more with researchers

    Journal article
    Nature, Macmillan Publishers
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-00828-5
    Project: Differential Privacy
  • Dhawan, Saurabh; Hegelich, Simon (2022)

    From Outside In: Profiling, Persuasion and Political Opinion in the Age of Big Data

    Contribution / chapter
    Montag, Christian; Baumeister, Harald, Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics., Cham, Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98546-2_10
    Project: Differential Privacy
  • Montag, Christian; Hegelich, Simon; Sindermann, Cornelia; Rozgonjuk, Dmitri; Marengo, Davide; Elhai, Jon D. (2021)

    On Corporate Responsibility When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being

    Journal article
    Trends in cognitive sciences, Volume: 25, Nr. 4, P. 268-270
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.002
    Project: Differential Privacy
  • Dhawan, Saurabh; Hegelich, Simon (2021)

    R for Social Media Analytics

    Contribution / chapter
    Quan-Haase, Sloan, The SAGE handbook of social
    Project: Meinungsmacht