Sprecherin: Prof. Dr. Shelley Boulianne
Moderation: Dr. Magdalena Obermaier
In this presentation, Shelley Boulianne outlines the advantages and challenges of conducting systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in the social sciences. She provides examples from her prior projects about digital media uses, political efficacy, protest participation, political consumerism, and online political participation. She also highlights her new research project, which is to explore how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct these evidence synthesis studies more quickly, comprehensively, and efficiently. The talk also outlines some of the risks or environmental costs associated with the use of AI for these evidence synthesis studies. Lastly, she outlines some ideas for future collaborative research.
Professor Boulianne is the R. Klein Research Chair (full professor rank) in Communication Studies at Mount Royal University (Calgary, Canada). She is currently the North American editor at Information, Communication & Society (ICS) and an Associate Editor at Social Science Computer Review (SSCR). She has held professor positions in politics and international relations (University of Southampton, UK; Catholic University of Lille, France), sociology (MacEwan University, Canada), and communication (Mount Royal University, Canada). She was a visiting fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Germany) and the Digital Democracy Center at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research examines the global dynamics of digital media use for citizen engagement in civic and political life.
Dr. Magdalena Obermaier is CAS Researcher in Residence during the winter semester 2025/26.
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