Summary information

Study title

Media Exposure and Opinion Formation in an Age of Information Overload (MEOF) – Webtracking on-site

Creator

Munzert, Simon (Hertie School Berlin)
Barberá, Pablo (University of Southern California)
Guess, Andrew M. (University of Princeton)
Yang, JungHwan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Study number / PID

ZA7896, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13981 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

The Media Exposure and Opinion Formation (MEOF) study is a multi-country, multi-wave panel survey conducted between July 2017 and October 2019 in Germany and April 2018 and October 2019 in the United States. The survey allows for the study of political attitudes and behaviors, knowledge, online media consumption, and attitudes on a variety of topics. In addition to survey data, passive measurement technology (tracking software) was deployed on respondents´ desktop and mobile devices to collect real-time data on web visits and mobile app usage with respondent consent.
The web tracking data consist of three samples, two German and one U.S. American, accompanying the fielded survey waves. Collected variables: country, url, used_at, duration, personid, domain, provider

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

01/07/2017 - 15/10/2019

Country

Germany, United States of America

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Panel

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota

Kind of data

Text

Data collection mode

Computer-based observation

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

C - Data and documents are only released for academic research and teaching after the data depositor's written authorization. For this purpose the Data Archive obtains a written permission with specification of the user and the analysis intention.

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