Presentations

(2024): Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Social Media Research Workshop, 5.-7. June 2024, Universität der Bundeswehr München. Presentation: Continuous Retraining with Varying Model Scales for Real-Time Multi-Target Stance Detection (with Arthur Müller and Jasmin Riedl).

(2023): Lecture series of the Max Weber Program of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 16 October 2023, Digital Event. Presentation: Digital Turning Points with X/Twitter and Co.: Opportunities & Challenges in the #BavariaElection. 

(2023): Jahrestagung des AK Parteienforschung (DVPW), 12.-13. October 2023, Göttingen, Germany. Presentation: Discourse Dynamics in Crisis: Navigating Conversational Bubbles Across Diverse Contentious Issues in the German Twittersphere (with Jasmin Riedl).

(2023): Navigating Crises - #Zeitenwende, Business as Usual or Muddling Through? 28.-29. September 2023, Delmenhorst, Germany. Presentation: Battle of Words: Dynamics of Echo Chambers among European Elites during War Times (with Hilke Brockmann).

(2023): ECPR General Conference: 4.-8. September 2023, Prague, Czech Republic. Presentation: Avoiding the elephant in the room: The (de-)politicization of Covid-19 and perceptions of political actors in the German Twittersphere (with Jasmin Riedl and Andreas Dafnos).

(2023): ECPR Joint Sessions: 25.-28. April 2023, Toulouse, France. Presentation: The evolution and persistence of echo chambers over time and across topics: German Covid-19 and Russo-Ukrainian War conversations on Twitter (with Jasmin Riedl).

(2023): Text-as-Data Reading Group: 22. March 2023, Digital Event. Presentation: Battle of Words: Dynamics of Echo Chambers among European Elites (with Hilke Brockmann, Joris Frese, Daniel Triana and Pedro Fierro Zamora).

(2022): Political Science Colloquium by Simon Franzmann: 12. December 2022, Göttingen, Germany. Presentation: Under (spatial) pressure: Party-level strategies for topical negative campaigning in a multidimensional political space (with Jasmin Riedl and Johannes Steup).

(2022): American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: 15.-19. September 2022, Montreal, Canada. Presentation: Avoiding the Elephant in the Room: The (De-)Politicization and Persistence of Covid-19 Echo Chambers during the 2021 German Election on Twitter (with Jasmin Riedl).

(2022): General Online Research Conference (GOR): 7.-9. September 2022, Berlin, Germany. Session Chair: Strategic Election Campaigning.

(2022): General Online Research Conference (GOR): 7.-9. September 2022, Berlin, Germany. Presentation: Under Pressure: Spatial Dynamics and Party-Level Strategies in Negative Campaigning during the 2021 German Election (with Jasmin Riedl and Johannes Steup).

(2022): BIGSSS Computational Social Science Summer School: 4.-15. July 2022, Groningen, Netherlands. Presentation: (Real-Time) Analyses of Twitter Data: Project SPARTA @ University of the German Bundeswehr München.

(2021): Current Topics and Applications in Data Science, Jacobs University Bremen: 26.10.2021, digitales Event. Presentation: Social media Analytics for Politics. The SPARTA project at the Bundeswehr University Munich.

(2021): Social Data Science Interest Group, Alan Turing Institute: 29. January 2021, Digital Event. Presentation: Social Media Expressions, Interactions and Differences between Citizens, Parties and Elites.

(2020): ECPR General Conference: 24.-28. August 2020, Digital Conference, Panel Chair: The Governance of Internet Intermediaries and Polarized Campaings.

(2020): ECPR General Conference: 24.-28. August 2020, Digital Conference, Presentation:  Trending Campaigns? Party Line Volatility Across (Social) Media.

(2020): American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting: 8.-11. August 2020, Digital Conference, Presentation: A Class for Itself? On the Worldviews of the New Tech Elite (with Hilke Brockmann and John Torpey).

(2020): Swiss Political Science Association Annual Conference: 3.-4. February 2020 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Presentation: Comparing Patterns of E-Expression.

(2019): International Conference on Public Policy (ICCP): 26.-28. June 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Panel Chair: Hello IT,… Have you tried turning it off and on again? Big Data Challenges for Political Science (with Jasmin Riedl und Habin Lee).

(2019): ECPR Joint Sessions: 8.-12. April 2019 in Mons, Belgium. Presentation: Towards a New Form of 'Electioneering'? Social Media Users' Preferences and Parties' Issue Agendas during the 2017 German Election Campaign.

(2019): The Rise of Digital Campaigning: Challenges, Implications and Response: 24.-25. January 2019 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

(2018): ECPR General Conference: 22.-25. August 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. Presentation: E-Campaigning on Social Media during the German Federal Election 2017: The Effectiveness of Parties‘ Campaign Strategies on Facebook and Twitter.

(2018): ECPR Joint Sessions: 10.-14. April 2018 in Nikosia, Cyprus. Presentation: E-Expression in a Comparative Perspective: Drivers and Constraints of Expressing Political Opinions Online.

(2017): Big Data and its Application in an Interdisciplinary Context: 11. October 2017 in Fiesole, Italien. Organisator (with Hilke Brockmann).

(2017): Italian Political Science Association (SISP): 14.-16. September 2017 in Urbino, Italy. Presentation: E-Campaigning on Twitter and Facebook: The Effectiveness of Negative and Positive Campaigning during the German Federal Election 2017 (with Andrea Ceron und Luigi Curini).

(2017): ECPR Summer School: 21. July-11. August 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. Summer School Participant: "Automated Collection of Web and Social Data" und "Big Data Analysis in the Social Sciences".

(2016): European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Graduate Student Conference: 10.-13. Juli 2016 in Tartu, Estonia. Presentation: Going, going, … Reviving? Political Activism in Modern Europe.

(2015): International Conference on Public Policy (ICCP): 01.-04. Juli 2015 in Milan, Italy. Presentation: Digital Crisis Management in Practice: The Role of Social Media during the German Flood Disaster of 2013 (with Kristina Kurze und Andreas Jager).

(2015): 23. Tagung Junger Osteuropaexperten: 19.-21. Juni 2015 in Tutzing, Germany. Presentation: Prospects and Challenges of Contentious Activities Online: A Case Study of the E-Petition Platform ManaBalss.lv in Latvia.

(2013): Bridges in the Baltics: 27.-28. September 2013 in Tartu, Estonia. Presentation: A Functional Perspective on Post-Communist Civil Society: Contentious Activities and Internet Activism.