Data Donation Module, Digital Meal, and Recruitment Strategies

The first session of the Data Donation Lab in the autumn semester 2022 took place on 8 November. It included a number of exciting inputs:

The Data Donation Module

First, Nico Pfiffner presented the "Data Donation Module" (DDM), an application that facilitates the collection of data donations for academic research. DDM will be part of the Data Donation Lab infrastructure and will be available to researchers at the University of Zurich in early 2023. You can find out more about the Data Donation Module here.

Digital Meal: Data Donation in Education Settings

Next, Lukas Tribelhorn introduced "Digital Meal", a citizen science project that integrates the idea of data donation as an educational tool to foster media literacy among adolescents. Find out more about the project here.

Recruiting Data Donors: Practical Experiences

Finally, Michael Reiss presented insights on strategies for recruiting participants for data donation studies. He compared recruiting participants via a panel provider, via Facebook Ads and via a commercial data marketplace with regard to participation rates, recruitment costs, administrative burden, and control over the process:

We thank everyone who attended the meeting, and we look forward to the next one! If you would like to stay up to date and be informed about the next meetings, you can sign up for our newsletter.

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