Looking forward to presenting some work in progress with @dasalgon.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social at @powimz.bsky.social today!

PoWiMZ@powimz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Heute in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt: Jan Schwalbach (GESIS Köln) spricht zum Thema "Movement Parties and Legislative Speech – Analyzing Party Behavior with Text Data" Beginn (wie immer): 16 Uhr, im P4 (Philosophicum) Alle sind herzlich Willkommen!

@janschwalbach.bsky.social and Oliver Watteler presented their joined work with other GESIS colleagues on Twitter Terms of Services over time. (full paper on this is published here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., blog summary by @snurb.info here snurb.info/index.php/no...) #smad2026

🚨New article with Luisa Golland, Oliver Watteler, Jonas Recker & Libby Bishop in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

Social Media Access Days

Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.

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Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

@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 🌐

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

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On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

See you in 6 months 👋 My parental leave started last week and I'm looking forward to the new experiences and challenges. Best thing to do for a smooth transition into the new life: visiting the Parliament of Catalunya. \1

As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy. @dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️ www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump? | TechPolicy.Press

Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.

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🚨New article with Reiner Mauer in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social This might be for you if you collect or use digital trace/behavioral data (e.g. social media data) and want to share it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs - Jan Schwalbach, Reiner Mauer, 2025

Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers...

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Super excited to be part of the #TaDa Speaker Series presenting #ParlLawSpeech and how we use it in our own research together with @janschwalbach.bsky.social!

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · last yr.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany

Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

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ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

Christian Rauh@chrauh.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 #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

So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

This website presents the ParlLawSpeech dataset, an interlinked collection of

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Christian Rauh@chrauh.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 #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

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats? Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research! More info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/comp-text-an...

New publication: "A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit", co-authored with Edgar Grande; Journal of European Public Policy. #OpenAccess Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Replication: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... 1/3

A revolt of the distrustful? Political trust, political protest and the democratic deficit

During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters i...

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(1/8) Just published in @the-peio.bsky.social by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social : We introduces IOParlspeech, a dataset of over 600,000 statements on 75 IOs in parliamentary debates (six countries: AT, CAN, DE, UK, USA, NZL) between 1990 and 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s115...

International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations

This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

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*Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R* by @dielea.bsky.social, @jwaeckerle.bsky.social & @janschwalbach.bsky.social. 🗓️ 01 – 03 April 2025 🏢 Online 🌐 t1p.de/comp-text-an...

@janschwalbach.bsky.social asseses which theoretical considerations need to be thought through preceding any (legislative) text analysis & discusses how the nested structure of legislative behavior & the data generating process influence theoretic assumptions about parliamentary behavior. Read more:

🚨New Publication in IPSR Interested in comparative legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis? Have a look at our review article on current research agendas & data sources and their respective gaps: ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/0192...

🚨New publication @Electoral Studies   Interested in party message perception in multiparty systems? Have a look: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvp2xRaZg...   Main finding: Party effects are more nuanced than a pure in/out-group divide and trust in the medium matters for perceived credibility.   🧵 1/7