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Marvin Stecker
@marvins.bsky.social
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I do research somewhere between political communication, computational methods and culture and identity.

PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab & Department of Government
University of Vienna

www.marvinstecker.com
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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19
New publication, out in Political Analysis:

There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?

I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
www.cambridge.org
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luissattelmayer.bsky.social
Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
marvins.bsky.social
TIL that data.table in R natively provides you with an option to perform multi-step per-row operations, and without even neeeding to prompt it, gives you a beautiful (speaking utilitarian, not aesthetical) progress bar.
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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fabiennelind.bsky.social
Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....
Grounding the Comparative Turn in Communications: A Framework for ValidatingMultilingual Computational Text Analysis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Following the progressing internationalisation of social science research and the computational turn in the field, researchers are increasingly adopting computational text analysis (CTA) methods to co...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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polanalysis.bsky.social
Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvins.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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rdassonneville.bsky.social
Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our findings...
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
www.cambridge.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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compcommlab.bsky.social
Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense –
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳
Picture of the committee, from left to right. Annie, Nicola, Azade, Eva, and Hajo.
September 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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compcommlab.bsky.social
Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig
Group photo: The CCL team standing together outdoors with the mountains around Dienten an Hochkönig in Salzburg in the background, smiling at the camera. Ski lift: A line of orange ski lift chairs stretching up a green slope surrounded by dense forest to get up the mountain. Hiking trail: The CCL team hiking down a narrow trail across a sunlit mountain slope with autumn-colored vegetation. Mountain view: A wide view of mountain peaks and ridges around Dienten am Hochkönig in Salzburg, with low-hanging clouds drifting between the valleys under a blue sky.
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1
NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
marvins.bsky.social
New publication, out in Political Analysis:

There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?

I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
www.cambridge.org
August 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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christinagahn.bsky.social
🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨

Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝

📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
marvins.bsky.social
If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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saengler.bsky.social
Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

A thread 👇 (1/n)

#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55
cup.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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ahrabhikat.bsky.social
Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
marvins.bsky.social
This is the only score I shall ever share because it was easy and I suck at this game
and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps

Connections
Puzzle #756
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July 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:

Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
July 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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janabernhard.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
June 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
marvins.bsky.social
Does anyone like data wrangling?
June 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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martav.bsky.social
Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀
@stawi-univie.bsky.social
@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
marvins.bsky.social
If you’re stressed with planning conferences, we’ve basically got a paper for every slot ;)
#EPSA2025
stawi-univie.bsky.social Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · Jun 25
From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3
The schedule of the presenters from the EPSA2025
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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compcommlab.bsky.social
🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom
June 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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tiondelisa.bsky.social
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

🧵 1/10
Screenshot of the abstract of the article.
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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hackingcommsci.bsky.social
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
June 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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veronikaebner.bsky.social
Today I was lucky enough to present my master‘s thesis on climate solutions journalism in the same panel at #ica25 as Kathryn Thier, who I cited so much in my thesis 😁
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jun 11
Lots of horrifying/enraging detail: “YouTube was created after one of its founders was frustrated by how long it took him to find an online clip of Janet Jackson’s nipple-exposing “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.”
June 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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aytalina.bsky.social
It still feels surreal, but on June 3, I defended my dissertation! 🎓

SO grateful to my reviewers @solecheler.bsky.social & Silke Adam, committee chair @hajoboo.bsky.social, advisors @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, co-authors Paul Balluff & Nanda Wijermans, & Team! 🙏✨

#PhDone
Defense celebration with my wonderful committee members, fantastic advisors & co-authors, and dear colleagues from all over Europe
June 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM