🚨 New paper with Pál Susánszky on 'Party system transformation from below: protests by Jobbik and LMP' 🚨

🧐 We examine how the protest presence of Jobbik and LMP contributed to the transformation of the Hungarian party system.

👉 link.springer.com/article/10.105…

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📢 Call for Papers! Join Anna Fruhstorfer, Michelle Torres
and me for a workshop on 'How Image-As-Data Approaches Can Help Analysing Protest and Its Organisation: Methods and Applications' on Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2024, at Free University Berlin.
More Info: tinyurl.com/3uvvx8a7

Es ist vollbracht!
Der Klimawende Ausblick 2024 ist veröffentlicht.
Die Studie bildet den Auftakt einer neuen Reihe zu den gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen der #Klimawende in Deutschland.
In diesem Thread gibt es ab jetzt jeden Tag ein Highlight aus der Studie 🔽

📢Very happy that this is out at EJPR journal (with J. Carvalho & D. Ruedin) 🎉
Looking at media coverage of immigration in 7 Western EU countries, we show that the increasing volume of news and political claims fosters public concern about immigration.
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

On 5/16, join us for the C-REX and PERIL webinar featuring Ashton Kingdon discussing The Meme is the Method: Examining the Power of Image within Extremist Propaganda. You can register for webinar links and updates here: sympa.uio.no/c-rex.uio.no/i…

We've finally published the study that drove the creation of Executive Approval Project: 'Executive Approval Dynamics in Presidential and Parliamentary Democratic Regimes' by C Martínez-Gallardo, GJ Love, J Hartlyn, Ryan E Carlin, Tim Hellwig & Matt Singer 🔗👇📈📉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

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📊 #ManifestoMonday is back for 2024’s ‘super election year’: Starting with the #EUelections2024 , we will do a little series of threads on issues, programs and positions throughout the year...

🚨Neuer Beitrag mit Swen Hutter über cleavages im 'Blauen Band'

❓Wir fragen, wie Konflikte um Klimawandel und Covid-19 in den politischen Raum eingebettet sind

🔍Wir liefern eine empirische Analyse der langfristigen Dynamik von Angebot und Nachfrage.

👉doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

Venezuela is now ice-free! 🥵
First American country to lose all its glaciers! 🧊📈
2 ha Humboldt Gl. (here 2024 | 2008) is now static and was downgraded from glacier to ice field
Next countries on the list: Indonesia, Mexico & Slovenia
amp.ntn24.com/noticias-cienc…
Extreme Temperatures Around The World

At COMPTEXT Conference, Johannes Gruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.

I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.

.Clara van den Berg is a democracy researcher and scholar with a focus on migration and how civil society alliances can support immigrants and fight far-right extremism. She brings critical insight on how to build durable coalitions. #GrowTheFuture

🔗us.boell.org/en/person/clar…

We have some exciting news to announce: preparations are under way for the launch this Fall of The COMPTEXT Association, a learned society to further text/image/video as data research in the social sciences and beyond. Please sign up for updates at shorturl.at/xyJZ7!

Very cool to hear that our concept of 'trigger points', a typology developed from qualitative analyses, is now being operationalized for computational linguistics studies of polarization in social media debates COMPTEXT Conference Thomas Lux Steffen Mau

Very happy to be in Amsterdam #comptext24 listening to such engaging panels! Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
I'll present advances of the Latin America ParlSpeech project with Jan Schwalbach tomorrow at 10am 🌎🗣️📄
Looking forward to the rest of the conference!

Ab Herbst hat das WZB eine neue Präsidentin: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln folgt zum 1. September auf Jutta Allmendinger (Jutta Allmendinger).
Goethe-Universität BMBF DFG public | @[email protected] Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

🚨New publication in SSCR

Are you collecting/analyzing/archiving digital trace data and are you interested in data quality (you should be😉)? We might have something for you: doi.org/10.1177/089443…

Last Friday I successfully defended my PhD🥳 Many thanks to my fantastic supervisors Swen Hutter Caterina Froio (@caterinafr.bsky.social) & committee Mirjam Dageförde Barbara Pfetsch Thorsten Faas (unfortunately not in the picture) and everyone who supported me along the way!

🚀The 'DIGIPART - Digitalisation in Parties' dataset is now live on Zenodo! Explore the comprehensive data we collected on how digital technologies are shaping political parties. 📊👩‍💻 A new article based on this is also coming out soon! Stay tuned!
🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…