Frederic Gerdon
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Research Interests
- Impact of digitization on society (solidarity, inequality, political and social participation)
- Political sociology
- Social stratification research
- Privacy research
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Career
Academic Career
Frederic Gerdon is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economic
and Social Sciences (GESS). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology
(minor in Political Science) from the Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz (2013-2017) and a Master's degree in Sociology from the
University of Mannheim (2017-2019). Furthermore, he spent a study
semester at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Currently, he is working on a project investigating the impact of
artificial intelligence (automated decision-making) on solidarity and
social inequality, drawing on real-life applications.
Since his undergraduate studies, he has been working as a student
research assistant at three chairs, involving various projects on
social stratification, cultural sociology, international relations,
and survey methodology. In his Master's thesis, he conducted a
factorial survey experiment („vignette study“) to investigate the
context dependence of privacy norms, showing how the perceived
appropriateness of data transmissions may vary with the interaction of
situational characteristics (e.g. data type, recipient, and data use).
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Publications
- Altmann, S., Milsom, L., Zillessen, H., Blasone, R., Gerdon, F., Bach, R. L., Kreuter, F., Nosenzo, D., Toussaert, S. & Abeler, J. (2020). Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth : JMU, 8(8), e19857. https://doi.org/10.2196/19857
- Gerdon, F. (2020). Data sharing for the public good? A factorial survey experiment on contextual privacy norms. 22. General Online Research Konferenz GOR 2020, Online.
- Gerdon, F., Nissenbaum, H., Bach, R. L. & Kreuter, F. (2020). Individual acceptance of using health data for private and public benefit: Changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard Data Science Review : HDSR, 2(Spec. Iss. 1).
- Gerdon, F., Theil, C. K., Kern, C., Bach, R. L., Kreuter, F., Stuckenschmidt, H. & Eckert, K. (2020). Exploring impacts of artificial intelligence on urban societies with social simulations. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Online.
- Gerdon, F. (2019). Daten-Teilen für das öffentliche Wohl? Ein Vignetten-Experiment zu kontextabhängigen Privacy-Normen. Unipark Communitytreffen, Mannheim, Germany.
- Keusch, F., Buskirk, T. D. & Gerdon, F. (2018). Getting persnickety about pair-wise Wikis: Investigating the relationship between initial settings for pair-wise Wiki Surveys and respondent engagement using a randomized experiment. AAPOR 73rd Annual Conference, Denver, CO.