🗣️Using a transformer model to identify moral and moral-emotional appeals, Tobias Widmann & Kristina Bakkær Simonsen show the important role of radical-right challengers in shaping public discourse in a negative moral-emotional direction cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess

🚨 Happy to have this study (with Kristina Bakkær Simonsen ) out today in PSRM Journal. I think it is a timely paper on how (radical-right) politicians and parties can use moral-emotional appeals to set the 'tone' of public debate -> focusing on the immigration debate in Germany. 👇

“Our findings indicate that politicians do not follow the public. On the contrary, politicians set the tone of public debate.”

Good things come in threes! At times, it’s felt like I’d never get to publish anything again (I know I know🎻🎻🎻 – but if you’ve ever been there…). All the happier and relieved that this summer has delivered 3 key publications on immigration, boundaries, and moralization 🧵👇🏼

Happy to see this in print. This covers opinion mining with supervised classifiers, NLI classifiers, and LLMs. Consider adding it to your syllabus if you’re teaching text as data!

Excited that my study on homelessness governance during Covid-19 is now online at @UrbanAffairsRev 🥳 Link to article: doi.org/10.1177/107808…

❓Do political actors appeal to discrete emotions? In this recent @the_JOP blog piece, Tobias Widmann investigates how politicians adapt their emotional rhetoric to increased political conflict over climate change⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-politician…

🕸️Using convolutional neural networks and 👱 the facial features of 7,080 Danish politicians, A.Lindholm, C.Hjorth & Julian Schuessler show attractiveness correlates positively with ballot paper placement and electoral support cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess

🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in PNAS Nexus 🚨 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Here’s what I find 🧵1/6

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

🚨 Just out in PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against

We are pleased to announce that #COMPTEXT2025 will take place at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April 2025. With the great organising team Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) IPKW – Department of Communication, UNIVIE, we will soon release the Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations! Stay tuned!

🌟 We can't wait for our upcoming talk. Join us next Wednesday at 5pm(CET) for a talk by Humeyra Biricik on "Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding". Find more details below ⬇️

Join Our Team! 🚨 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We’re looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aarhu…

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…