Tariq is followed by @hendrik_meyer who presents an elegant pipeline incorporating human codebook construction, LLMs for small sample to save environmental, financial, and normative costs, and classification of the larger sample with SetFit (a framework leveraging transformers for prompt-free few-shot classification). Find this promising framework and the model that focuses on climate protests, here: https://huggingface.co/cbpuschmann/MiniLM-klimacoder_v0.1/blob/main/model_head.pkl

New paper by Lars Guenther,
@kkvk7, Michael Brüggemann, and me published in #EnvironmentalCommunication: We examined the framing of climate futures in journalistic media across Germany, India, South Africa, & USA; semi-autom. & manual analysis
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2023.2253500

Hannah-Marie Büttner certainly did a great job presenting our ( @patrick_zerrer )
comparative research on network structures and content of online debates surrounding climate protests at #IC2S2 : "Activists Preserving the Digital Media Environment -- Advocacy Coalitions of Lützerath"

Für das Format "Doktor Whatson" haben wir Infos zur (journalist.&Twitter)Debatte über die Letzte Generation aus unserem Forschungsprojekt bereitgestellt. Im Video oberflächlich--bald von uns mehr dazu,z.B. zu Framenutzung & Rolle von Medienoutlets/Verlagen
https://youtu.be/6Fw1eG-4QrY

New theory paper with Michael Brüggemann:
We tried to wrap our heads around the question of how to conceptualize polarization in (digital) media debates from a public sphere perspective. Now available in Communication Theory's recent special issue:
https://academic.oup.com/ct/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ct/qtad012/7210487?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Interested in researching (De-)Polarization of media debates?
Feel like coming to Hamburg (current salary & accommodation provided)?
Skilled and interested in (autom.) content analysis and/or programming? Some fellowships start as early as April!

https://thenew.institute/en/fellows/fellowship-calls/depolarizing-public-debates-developing-tools-for-transformative-communication

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or Michael Brüggemann!