Another new paper out - this one is about public support for the digitalization of education systems. Many in politics believe that the promotion of digitalization in education is a no-brainer, this paper shows that the public is more cautious... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.

@leoroe.bsky.social finds no evidence that early adolescents spend less time on enrichment, physical activity, or sleep after acquiring their first mobile phone. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What happens when kids get their first smartphone? They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or… From @leoroe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psych

You may have heard of the back-door criterion and the front-door criterion for causal identification. Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).

Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday

Conni geht zu weit

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes" But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways 1/2 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

Some cool German/Swiss postdoc opportunities for a quantitative sociologist or similar in this thread:

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🎉 Happy to share my first PhD paper, published in @journalcam.bsky.social! 💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱 💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies 💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common doi.org/10.1080/1748...

Finally an AI model full of self-doubt, constantly requiring external validation, and taking several months to write a single paragraph.

‪Best wishes! Interesting opportunity to join us in 2025: Sciences Po - CRIS (Paris) is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure track)! Candidates with a recent PhD dealing with digital inequalities with a solid methodological background + an ambitious research agenda www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

Are young men and women in Europe becoming more polarized in their political ideologies? It depends. Across 32 countries: 14 show no meaningful gender gap 7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left 11 show widening modern gender gaps osf.io/preprints/os...

Christmas-y vibes in Paris 🎄✨ Was a pleasure to present results from my collab w/ @rsmloh.bsky.social at the Digital Inequalities Symposium at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social Super cool to meet other early-career researchers interested in this fascinating topic and a great way to end the year!

How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍 More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

📄 New working paper! We explore ICT-related career choices using Swiss longitudinal data. 💡 Key findings: Girls’ choices align with their ICT interest, boys’ with their ICT self-concept. ICT interest does not predict choice of ICT-specialist careers. 🖥️ Implications for gender disparities in tech!

#ECSR2024 was amazing! Great vibe and high-quality research. And, of course, paella, sunshine, and all that rumba 🎶 Looking forward to next year‘s edition! #sociology

New working paper out! I test whether phone use in early adolescence displaces academically beneficial activities, using DiD and longitudinal #TimeUse data 📱👧👦 Key finding: No time displacement effects on enrichment, sports, & sleep, but reduction in TV/movie watching. dx.doi.org/10.48350/199...

Unser DigiPrim Bericht zum Status quo der Digitalisierung im Primarbereich in der Schweiz ist veröffentlicht 📖📊 Der Bericht zeigt erstmalig schweizweite Auswertungen zum Stand der #Digitalisierung in den #Primarschulen doi.org/10.48350/193898 (Vollversion, Deutsch) Kurzversionen in FR, IT, EN

Im liberalen Sinne heißt liberal nicht einfach nur liberal.

🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

Very excited to be a part of this amazing conference and to present my PhD paper on mobile phones and early adolescents‘ time use 🤩 Will be my first visit in the country that brought us Käärijä and the Windows95man, so the overall expectations are pretty high 😬

Like promised: CFP for our 10th scientific seminar “Digitalization, social inequality and behavioural change” is now out! Cross-disciplinary, so if any of those themes tick your boxes, consider submitting an abstract. And if the audience insists, I can promise a pre/post-conf sauna excursion!

Is the #digitaldivide among children still a thing? - Yes, but it looks different than you might expect, at least in Switzerland! Check out the first sneak peak of my PhD in the #BELONG project blog of Oslomet: tinyurl.com/yc2w7u3k #sociology #inequality #edtech #ict

Hi there! I am a PhD student at the University of Bern, Switzerland. I study social inequalities in children's use of digital technologies / ICTs and the digitalization of schools. My main fields of interest are social stratification & family and educational #Sociology #HiSciSky #EdTech