Dr. Ruben L. Bach

Ruben Bach (Quelle: Farina Stock)
Research Fellow (Data and Methods Unit)
Project Director
ruben.bach [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2840
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2866
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
A5, 6 Building A
Room:245
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1908
CAIUS: Consequences of AI-Based Decision Making for Urban Societies
A2.2011
Fairness in Automated Decision-Making—FairADM

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2024
Filter Bubbles, Alternative News and Political Polarization
B1.2211
Political Identities in an Era of Alternative News

Publications

Journal Articles

Bach, Ruben L., Carina Cornesse and Jessica Daikeler (In Press): Equipping the Offline Population with Internet Access in an Online Panel. Does It Make a Difference?. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, (publ. online before print). more
Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Hannah Mautner and Frauke Kreuter (2023): The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling. Data & Policy, 5, (article-no. e32). more
Keusch, Florian, Ruben L. Bach and Alexandru Cernat (2023): Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior. Internet Research, 33, issue 3, pp. 1031-1052. more
Müller, Philipp, and Ruben L. Bach (2023): Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods. New Media & Society, 25, issue 10, pp. 2663–2683. more
Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Denis Bonnay and Luc Kalaora (2022): Understanding political news media consumption with digital trace data and natural language processing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society, 185, issue S2, pp. S246-S269. more
Daikeler, Jessica, Ruben L. Bach, Stephanie Eckman and Henning Silber (2022): Motivated Misreporting in Smartphone Surveys. Social Science Computer Review, 40, issue 1, pp. 95-107. more
Gerdon, Frederic, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern and Frauke Kreuter (2022): Social impacts of algorithmic decision-making: A research agenda for the social sciences. Big Data & Society, pp. 1-13 (e-only). more
Kern, Christoph, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): Humans versus machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward automated decision-making. Patterns, 3, issue 10, (article no. 100591) e-only. more
Kuppler, Matthias, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach and Frauke Kreuter (2022): From fair predictions to just decisions? Conceptualizing algorithmic fairness and distributive justice in the context of data-driven decision-making. Frontiers in Sociology , 7, (article no. 883999), pp. 1-18. more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): A preregistered vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. Politics and the Life Sciences, 41, issue 2, pp. 161–181. more
Amaya, Ashley, Ruben L. Bach, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2021): New Data Sources in Social Science Research: Things to Know Before Working With Reddit Data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, issue 4, pp. 943-960. more
Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Ashley Amaya, Florian Keusch, Frauke Kreuter, Jan Hecht and Jonathan Heinemann (2021): Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, issue 5, pp. 862–883. more
Gerdon, Frederic, Helen Nissenbaum, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter and Stefan Zins (2021): Individual Acceptance of Using Health Data for Private and Public Benefit: Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Harvard Data Science Review, Special issue "COVID-19: Unprecedented Challenges and Chances", issue 1, pp. 1-24 (e-only). more
Altmann, Samuel, Luke Milsom, Hannah Zillessen, Raffaele Blasone, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter, Daniele Nosenzo, Séverine Toussaert and Johannes Abeler (2020): Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Cross-Country Survey Study. JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 8, issue 8, (article no. e19857). more
Bach, Ruben L., Stephanie Eckman and Jessica Daikeler (2020): Misreporting Among Reluctant Respondents. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 8, issue 3, pp. 566–588. more
Bach, Ruben L., and Stephanie Eckman (2020): Rotation Group Bias in Reporting of Household Purchases in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. Economics Letters, 187, issue February 2020, (article no. 108889). more
Bach, Ruben L., and Alexander Wenz (2020): Studying health-related internet and mobile device use using web logs and smartphone records. PLOS ONE, 15, issue 6, (article no. e0234663). more

Book Chapters

Amaya, Ashley, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter and Florian Keusch (2021): Measuring the Strength of Attitudes in Social Media Data. Pp. 163-192 in: Craig Hil, Paul P. Biemer, Trent Buskirk, Lilli Japec, Antje Kirchner, Stas Kolenikov, Lars E. Lyberg (Eds.) Big Data Meets Survey Science: A Collection of Innovative Methods. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. more

Papers / Reports

Kern, Christoph, Ruben L. Bach, Hannah Mautner and Frauke Kreuter (2021): Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more
Kuppler, Matthias, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach and Frauke Kreuter (2021): Distributive Justice and Fairness Metrics in Automated Decision-making: How Much Overlap Is There?. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more

Conference Presentations

Bach, Ruben L., Henning Silber, Matthias Schonlau, Jette Schröder, Frederic Gerdon and Florian Keusch (2023): To share or not to share – Using open-ended survey questions to understand data sharing decisions. [10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, July 17th to July 22nd, 2023] more
Cernat, Alexandru, Florian Keusch, Ruben L. Bach and Paulina Pankowska (2023): Estimating measurement quality in digital trace data and surveys using the MultiTrait MultiMethod model. [10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, July 17th to July 22nd, 2023] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Daria Szafran, Jakob Kappenberger, Ruben L. Bach and Christoph Kern (2023): Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities. [ESRA 2023 Conference, Milan, July 17th to July 21st, 2023] more
Kern, Christoph, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2023): Humans vs. Machines: Who is Perceived to Decide Fairer? An Experiment about Citizens’ Attitudes. [The 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, Munich, June 26th to June 30th, 2023] more
Pankowska, Paulina, Florian Keusch, Ruben L. Bach and Alexandru Cernat (2023): Measuring Facebook Use: The Accuracy of Self-Reported Data vs. Digital Trace Data. [German Online Research 23, Kassel, September 20th to September 22nd, 2023] more
Wenz, Alexander, Florian Keusch and Ruben L. Bach (2023): Assessing the quality of digital behavioral data for measuring smartphone use. [4th MASS Workshop, Manchester, UK, June 22nd, 2023] more
Keusch, Florian, Paulina Pankowska, Ruben L. Bach and Alexandru Cernat (2022): Measuring Facebook use: The accuracy of self-reported data versus digital trace data. [Joint Statistical Meetings 2022, Washington, DC, August 06th to August 11th, 2023] more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): In which situations are people likely to share their health data? A vignette experiment on willingness to donate three different types of health data. [Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), (virtual conference), March 25th to March 26th, 2022] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Helen Nissenbaum, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter and Stefan Zins (2021): Pandemic Effects on Privacy Attitudes: Changes in Acceptance of Using Health Data for Private and Public Benefit. [3rd Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, (virtual conference), September 30th to October 01st, 2021] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Helen Nissenbaum, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter and Stefan Zins (2021): Privacy Attitudes in Times of Crisis: Acceptance of Data Sharing for Public Health. [AAPOR 76th Annual Conference, (virtual conference), May 11th to May 14th, 2021] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Helen Nissenbaum, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter and Stefan Zins (2021): Privacy Attitudes in Times of Crisis: Acceptance of Data Sharing for Public Health?. [Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), (virtual conference), August 08th to August 12th, 2021] more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2021): A vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. [Science and Politics: Changing Attitudes and Emerging Methodologies, (virtual workshop), November 05th to November 07th, 2021] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Christoph Kilian Theil, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Kai Eckert (2020): Exploring Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Societies with Social Simulations. [40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, (virtual conference), September 14th to September 24th, 2020] more
Keusch, Florian, Ruben L. Bach and Alexandru Cernat (2020): Social desirability in digital trace data collection. [BigSurv20, (virtual conference), November 06th to December 04th, 2020] more
Keusch, Florian, Georg-Christoph Haas, Ruben L. Bach and Frauke Kreuter (2019): Social desirability in passive mobile data collection. [8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, July 15th to July 19th, 2019] more