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In the paper "Characterizing Political Talk on Twitter: A Comparison Between Public Agenda, Media Agendas, and the Twitter Agenda with Regard to Topics and Dynamics", we show that prominent topics discussed during an election campaign in Germany diverged strongly, depending on whether they were identified based on Twitter messages, mass media coverage, or survey responses. It seems futile to expect social media to mirror political reality truly. It appears more fruitful to use differences in the…

On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 11:45 am, Lukas Rudolph (ETH Zurich) will speak in room F425 about "Europe's refugee crisis, intergroup contact and asylum attitudes".

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded a 3-year research grant for an interdisciplinary research project entitled "Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media Bias". The project will be carried out jointly by the team of Karsten Donnay (Politics and Public Administration) and Bela Gipp (Computer Science).

On Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 1:30 pm, James Hollway (Graduate Institute Geneva) will speak in room D 433 about "Multilevel network dynamics and the evolution of complex environmental governance".

Andreas Jungherr hält Impulsvortrag zu DFG-Workshop „Bedeutung und Struktur der Forschung an digitalen Methoden und Verfahren“.

During the Wintersemester 2018/9, Andreas Jungherr is on leave as a visiting professor at the department of political science at the University of Zurich.

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Welche Rolle kann Steve Bannon im kommenden Europawahlkampf spielen? Bericht im Tagesspiegel mit Einschätzung von Andreas Jungherr.

Bericht und Aufzeichnung der Podiumsdiskussion "Informiert, manipuliert, polarisiert?" mit Andreas Jungherr.