Tobias Heidenreich

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💡 Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2026 on the topic “Challenges to International Orders: Causes and Consequences”
📅 7–9 October at the WZB.
🔄Please share our call for papers within your networks. Deadline for submissions: 23 April 26
www.wzb.eu/en/events/2n...

Pics or it didn’t happen! EU institutions’ visual communication and user engagement on Facebook and Instagram | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Pics or it didn’t happen! EU institutions’ visual communication and user engagement on Facebook and Instagram

Pics or it didn't happen! 📱

@olgaeisele.bsky.social, @hdnrch.bsky.social & @phoebemaares.bsky.social
look at a decade of EU social media posts to show that how images are used strongly shapes user engagement

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Pics or it didn’t happen! EU institutions’ visual communication and user engagement on Facebook and Instagram - https://cup.org/4txpTt0

- @olgaeisele.bsky.social, @hdnrch.bsky.social & @phoebemaares.bsky.social

#FirstView

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Combining computational and qualitative text analysis of 23,000+ NGO documents, we show that:

* Feminist NGOs view the UN more positively when it supports gender equality.
* Conservative NGOs seek normative ownership, claiming the UN’s original mission for their own agenda.

New publication in Review of International Studies!

Jelena Cupać and I examine how feminist and conservative NGOs differ in their legitimacy beliefs about the UN, and how perceptions shape their engagement amid growing ideological polarization.

Open-access article here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

🎙️ New @ccspod.bsky.social episode!
I unpack how computational methods transform the study of opinionated communication + share insights from my work on studying climate change campaigns on social media with @cidape.bsky.social

Listen here 👉 aboutccs.net/opinion/

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

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Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

Die Dynamiken der Ampelkoalition auf Facebook In zwei Tagen findet die Bundestagswahl statt. Eine Wahl, die nötig wurde, weil die Ampelkoalition aus SPD, Grünen und FDP auseinandergebrochen ist, eine Koalition, die vor etwas mehr als drei...

Kurz vor der Bundestagswahl und bald anstehenden Koalitionsgesprächen haben Pola Lehmann und ich einen Blick in die Dynamiken der Ampelregierung auf Facebook geworfen und die Konfliktlinien zwischen den Parteien auch dort entdeckt. Hier unser Text für die @wzb.bsky.social Werkstatt Wahlen.

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

📢 Call for Papers!

Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era

Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2

co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social

More details below 👇

✨Time for meta reflection✨

In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Would be great if you could add me as well, thanks!

Ich wäre auch gerne dabei. Danke!

Awesome list, could you add me as well? Thanks!

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

Screenshot of the Abstract to "Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects"

Are you interested in doing media effects research in the digital and social media environment? We have a special issue for you in CMM
doi.org/10.1080/1931....

@loespouwels.bsky.social, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com, @bachl.bsky.social and Patti Valkenburg share our perspective here:

“Pics or it didn’t happen”?
Well it did! ☝🏻🤗
We were very happy to welcome @hdnrch.bsky.social back into our team in the context of a guest presentation on shared work with @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @phoebemaares.bsky.social on automated visual analysis.

🚨Exciting research alert! 🚨 Explore the world of topic modeling in communication science with our latest paper. Discover how different validation methods impact model selection and its consequences for theory development. 📚 commsky #TopicModeling www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

"TikTok´s Research API falls woefully short"
My colleagues Santiago, Martin & @altreflexion.bsky.social compared TikTok´s research API with data they were able to scrape.
More details: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2023/th...

What is the best sampling approach for multilingual texts? In our new paper in Computational Communication Research, we (Sean-Kelly Palicki, Wouter van Atteveldt, Alice Beazer, & Isaac Bravo) find that experts know best www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
 
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The University of Potsdam (Andrea Liese / Thomas Sommerer) has a #vacancy for a three year #PostDoc / #Researcher position in #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #Polisky: www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...