Die letzten zwei Wochen habe ich leider mal wieder mehr oder weniger im Krankenhaus verbracht. Das war hoffentlich das letzte Mal für absehbare Zeit! Eine nützliche und durchaus spannende Begleiterscheinung dieser Aufenthalte ist, dass sie mich aus meiner üblichen sozialen Bubble und Komfortzone herausholen. Diskussionen mit Mitpatient_innen, Pflegepersonal, Ärzt_innen und Taxifahrern haben meinen Horizont doch
Post APIcalypse research | Komm wir fahrn nach Amsterdam…
I´m going to Amsterdam! I am excited to be a participant in the 2020 Winter school of the Digital Method Initiative in Amsterdam. My collegue Jule Scheper is going too, and thus it´ll be like a works outing of the Communication Data Science Projektes at IJK. The winter school is focusing on the possibilities how
Computational Data Science at IJK Hanover
The second – and much larger – project I am currently working on is a teaching research project on Communication Data Science, which I have acquired together with the professors and other colleagues at the IJK at the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony in the program „Quality Plus“. It finances my position
Kick-Off: Coding with the Crowd – Quality Assurance in the Coding Process with Crowd Workers
Standardized content analysis is a core method of communication science and the only major methodical tool that was developed primarily in our discipline. It is claimed that the first content analysis was conducted by Bernard Berelson and Harold D. Lasswell on propaganda in World War II. With the internet and more textual content to analyse
Long time no post
Due to a serious illness I have not been active on the blog for a very long time. Luckily I feel much better now and I’ve already started working again a while ago. It is wonderful to be back at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Research in Hanover (IJK) and a lot has happened
Analyzing visual content (frames?) using Google Vision API and topic modeling
The aim of my study on „visual self-presentation of politicians on Facebook“ was to find out to what extent relatively simple and low-threshold tools (such as the Google Vision API) can support the analysis of visual framing. Hence, in this blog post I want to recap on this topic. The term “frame” is quite problematic
How open can communication research data be?
A question that has been bothering me since the start of the Fellow Program is how communication scientists can handle the disclosure of data in a sensible way. The advantages of open data are obvious: Reproducibility and reusability of already processed data increase the quality of research and save resources. The demand for open data
Computational Communication Science Conference & LDA for analysing visual frames
Last month it finally happened: The Computational Communication Science workshop conference took place in Hannover! We worked towards this as a team for almost two years. More than 100 participants took part in the discussions and method workshops were held in advance. Apart from some minor glitches, the conference was a complete success. As the
Politicians Facebook Posts: First descriptive results on parties and politicians
During the last weeks I was busy getting an overview on the data. Being kind of a graphic nerd, I wanted to create not only functional but also aesthetic outputs. While ggplot2 certainly has it´s quirks, it was fun to puzzle out charts that worked for me. Here come the first resulta. The basis of
Politicians Facebook Posts: Lab report on data collection
Since the data collection for my project on strategic communication of politicians on Facebook has been completed, it´s about time I write an extensive lab report on how it went. I have experimented with web scraping in R and Python for a while now, but this was by far the most extensive data collection I