It is a great pleasure for us to welcome you all to the 18th General
Online Research conference.
We’re proud to welcome our guests for the second time in the historic
and yet modern state Saxony. In 2007 GOR took place in Leipzig, now
it is time for the state capital Dresden! In a city between tradition and
modernity, where you can find the world famous Semperoper as well as
leading microelectronic companies, that brought forth such artists as
Erich Kästner and Gerhard Richter, where Tannhäuser was premiered
and where great things like coffee filters and toothpaste were invented, we’re ready to open a new chapter of online research. Therefore we
are very glad to have the opportunity to collaborate with the Dresden
University of Technology as local organizer, which is one of eleven German universities identified as an “excellence university” as well as the
largest university in Saxony.
We again have a great conference programme lined up for you which
includes keynotes, presentations, awards and posters and a brand
new track. You can choose between up to four simultaneous conference tracks: Track A covers online research methodology. The new
Track B covers Data Science for Policy and Business, Track C features
Science 2.0 & Open Science in cooperation with Science 2.0 Leibniz
Research Alliance and Track D informs us about advances in applied
online research and is jointly organized with marktforschung.de. In
addition, we have three award competitions: i) the GOR Best Practice
Award 2016 for the best practice study from applied online research,
ii) the GOR Thesis Award 2016 for the best thesis (bachelor, master and
PhD) in online research and iii) the GOR Poster Award 2016 for the best
poster at the conference.
Our keynotes this year view the digital world from very different,
but tremendously exciting prospects: On Thursday, 3 March 2016,
Vincent F. Hendricks from the Center for Information and Bubble Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 2015 TEDx Talker
will enlighten us with his view on what he calls “Online Bubbles”. On
Friday, 4 March 2016, Jana Diesner from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA, will present astonishing results from her
DEAR GUESTS OF THE GOR 2016!
studies which can be summarized as “Rich and Reliable Signals: Making Responsible Choices for Working with Social Interaction Data“.
Cathleen M. Stützer
Applied Research Data Science Digital Methods Online Research Survey Research