Research

Publications

(2023) Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees. Sociology. With Ulf Liebe.

(2023) Bridging the offline and online: 20 years of offline meeting data of the German-language Wikipedia. Journal of Computational Social Science.

(2023) Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research. European Sociological Review. With Ulf Liebe.

(2022) Big data and development sociology: An overview and application on governance and accountability through digitalization in Tanzania. Frontiers in Sociology. With Alexia Pretari, William Marwa, Simone Lombardini and Ulf Liebe.

(2022) Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time. Scientific reports, 12: 10831. With Ulf Liebe and Andreas Tutić.

(2022) Does living in districts with higher levels of ethnic violence affect refugees’ attitudes towards the host country? Empirical evidence from Germany. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(15): 2793-2821. With Ulf Liebe.

(2022; published online 2020) Social capital in retirement villages: A literature review. Ageing&Society, 42(7): 1560-1588.

(2021) Explaining Ethnic Violence: On the Relevance of Geographic, Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Hate Crimes on Refugees. European Sociological Review, 37(3): 429-448. With Ulf Liebe.

(2020) Going Digital: Web data collection using Twitter as an example Oxfam Going Digital Series. With Ulf Liebe.

(2019) Twitter Data Analysis. In A. Pretari, Active Citizenship in Tanzania: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Governance and Accountability through Digitalization’ project. Impact Evaluation Report 2017-2019: Chapters 3.4 and 4.3. Oxford: Oxfam GB. With Ulf Liebe.

(2019) Objective Status, Subjective Status and Prosociality of Swiss Apprentices. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 45(1): 57-81. With Ulf Liebe and Andreas Tutić.


Other

R package: ISCO08ConveRsions: Converts ISCO-08 to Job Prestige Scores, ISCO-88 and Job Name.

(2022) The role of offline ties in online communities: the case of Wikipedia. PhD thesis.

(2020) Podcast: Coronavirus and Web Data Analysis. Real Geek Series. With Simone Lombardini and Alexia Pretari.

nicole.schwitter@uni-manheim.de