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Andreas Jungherr

Andreas Jungherr

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Political Science

D-Index
30
Citations
3912
World Ranking
1185
National Ranking
61

Overview

Andreas Jungherr is affiliated with the University of Bamberg in Germany and focuses on research within the social sciences, particularly communication, sociology and political science, as well as artificial intelligence. Their research integrates interdisciplinary approaches involving political communication, media studies, and computational methods.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Andreas Jungherr has contributed to various publication venues over time, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Social Media + Society
  • Social Science Computer Review
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Political Communication

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Andreas Jungherr include:

  • "Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy" (2021, Social Media + Society)
  • "Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework" (2023, Social Media + Society)
  • "The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse" (2022, Social Media + Society)
  • "Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication" (2020, Political Communication)
  • "Artificial intelligence and the public arena" (2023, Communication Theory)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Gonzalo Rivero, Daniel Gayo-Avello, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Ralph Schroeder, and Alexander Wuttke, highlighting a collaborative network within computational social science and communication research.

In addition to journal articles, Andreas Jungherr has published a book with Cambridge University Press titled Retooling Politics (2020).

Best Publications

  • Twitter use in election campaigns: A systematic literature review

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Why the Pirate Party Won the German Election of 2009 or The Trouble With Predictions: A Response to Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sander, P. G., & Welpe, I. M. “Predicting Elections With Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal About Political Sentiment”

    Andreas Jungherr;Pascal Jürgens;Harald Schoen

  • The Logic of Political Coverage on Twitter: Temporal Dynamics and Content

    Andreas Jungherr

  • The Mediation of Politics through Twitter: An Analysis of Messages posted during the Campaign for the German Federal Election 2013

    Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen;Pascal Jürgens

  • Retooling Politics

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  • The Political Click : Political Participation through E-Petitions in Germany

    Andreas Jungherr;Pascal Jürgens

  • Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data

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  • Digital Trace Data in the Study of Public Opinion: An Indicator of Attention Toward Politics Rather Than Political Support

    Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen;Oliver Posegga;Pascal Jürgens

  • Small worlds with a difference: new gatekeepers and the filtering of political information on Twitter

    Pascal Jürgens;Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen

  • Twitter in Politics : A Comprehensive Literature Review

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Discursive Power in Contemporary Media Systems: A Comparative Framework:

    Andreas Jungherr;Oliver Posegga;Jisun An

  • Four Functions of Digital Tools in Election Campaigns: The German Case

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data: The Role of Twitter Messages in Social Science Research

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy:

    Andreas Jungherr;Ralph Schroeder

  • Tweets and votes, a special relationship: the 2009 federal election in germany

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Forecasting the pulse : How deviations from regular patterns in online data can identify offline phenomena

    Andreas Martin Jungherr;Pascal Jürgens

  • Digital Media and the Surge of Political Outsiders: Explaining the Success of Political Challengers in the United States, Germany, and China:

    Andreas Jungherr;Ralph Schroeder;Sebastian Stier

  • Political Discussions in Homogeneous and Cross-Cutting Communication Spaces

    Jisun An;Haewoon Kwak;Oliver Posegga;Andreas Jungherr

  • Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

    Yannis Theocharis;Andreas Jungherr

  • Political Discussions in Homogeneous and Cross-Cutting Communication Spaces

    Jisun An;Haewoon Kwak;Oliver Posegga;Andreas Jungherr

  • Das Internet in der politischen Kommunikation: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Datengestützte Verfahren im Wahlkampf

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Twitternde Politiker : Zwischen buntem Rauschen und Bürgernähe 2.0

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Digitale Verhaltensdaten und Methoden der Computational Social Science in der politischen Kommunikationsforschung

    Sebastian Stier;Andreas Jungherr

  • Schleppender Beginn : deutsche Politiker entdecken Twitter nur zögerlich

    Andreas Martin Jungherr

  • 6. Kommunikation auf sozialen Netzwerkplattformen

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Die Rolle des Internets in deutschen Wahlkämpfen

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Unterstützer als politische Botschafter gewinnen

    Christian Jung;Andreas Jungherr

  • Wirkung politischer Informationsbriefe in Unterstützung von TTIP

    Andreas Jungherr;Antonin Finkelnburg;Ralf Güldenzopf;Matthias Mader

  • Twitter als politische Informationsquelle

    Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen;Ralf Güldenzopf

  • Wer hat, dem wird gegeben : Politische Beteiligung im Internet

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Sichtbarkeitsreport : Wie sichtbar sind die Webseiten Politischer Parteien für Suchmaschinen?

    Andreas Jungherr;David J. Ludwigs;Harald Schoen

  • Netzpolitischer Rückblick 2012

    Andreas Jungherr

  • Technische Entwicklung und gesellschaftliche Erwartungen: Eine kurze politische Ideengeschichte des Internets

    Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen

  • Das Internet in Deutschland: Nutzung und Wirkungen auf die politische Partizipation

    Andreas Jungherr;Harald Schoen

  • Digitale Werkzeuge als Teil der Infrastruktur politischer Kampagnen

    Andreas Jungherr

Frequent Co-Authors

Haewoon Kwak
Haewoon Kwak Indiana University
Yannis Theocharis
Yannis Theocharis Technical University of Munich
Johannes Schöning
Johannes Schöning University of St. Gallen

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