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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Neues Show-und-Tell-Format der AG “KI in der KoWi” der DGPuK: Erster Termin: 26.06. von 13:00–14:00 Uhr mit Dr. @mikefarjam.bsky.social und @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social (beide Uni Hamburg) sowie Prof. Dr. @cbpuschmann.bsky.social (Uni Bremen). Anmeldung: forms.gle/47wHUE5tAPT4...

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Danke an das Team von @w-i-d.de (Wissenschaft im Dialog) für die Ausrichtung des Multistakeholder-Dialogs in Berlin! Sehr bereichernder Austausch und wichtiger Beitrag zum Verhältnis von #Wissenschaftskommunikation und #Polarisierung von gesellschaftlichen Debatten!

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🛜 Bottom line: Single-platform studies risk drawing normatively loaded conclusions from a structurally partial picture. If we want to understand polarization, counterpublic- & coalition-building in fragmented media environments, multi-platform designs, despite challenges & shortcomings, are needed.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

• Results complicate the “closed-off communities = always bad” storyline. • Some (semi-)closed spaces can be functional & protective for organizing & coordinating protest, while similar “counterpublic” dynamics can also describe reactionary, defensive coalitions that mobilize against activists.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

3️⃣➡️ This has normative implications for conceptualizations of #polarization, #counterpublics, and so-called “echo chambers” surrounding #climatechange and #activism debates—and shows why multi-platform research is overdue:

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

• Twitter/X and Mastodon are more about public evaluation, visibility, and contested interpretations of events: - police actions versus police violence; - climate policy demands versus denial/delay of the need for climate action; - legitimacy versus supposed radicalism of protest tactics; - ...

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

2️⃣👁️‍🗨️ Each platform plays a distinct role for protesters: • Telegram matters even when the advocacy coalition is comparatively small: The platform functions as an essential semi-public infrastructure for intra-group support, organizing, and logistics.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

• Twitter/X: two large polarized coalitions competing in public arena. • Telegram: dominant “antagonist mainstream” alongside a smaller, isolated advocacy subnetwork; nevertheless central for protesters (see below) • Mastodon: pro-activist environment; antagonists remain scattered & don't cluster

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We show that “the protest debate” looks fundamentally different depending on where you look. ❗ Core insights: 1️⃣💥 Coalition structures differ sharply by platform (advocates vs. antagonists):

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

❓ How do different social media platforms shape the formation of advocate/antagonist coalitions within #climateprotest debates? ⏩ multi-platform network & content analysis (+ qual. validation) of 259,334 posts surrounding Lützerath protests, comparing #Twitter/ #X, #Telegram, and #Mastodon

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New #OpenAccess paper in #EnvironmentalCommunication 🎉: “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests” (w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de) 🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication is out & we (w/ Michael Brüggemann) contributed an entry on 💥 "Discursive #Polarization" 🗯️ Many thanks to the editors @alessandronai.bsky.social, Max Grömping & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social! 🛜 #OpenAccess accepted preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Proposed methods teaching material regarding network analysis: could there be a nicer way of teaching students what nodes and edges in a network are?

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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

New mixed-methods study out in Media International Australia! We compare 🇦🇺 & 🇩🇪 news framing of climate movements — revealing media polarisation: right-leaning outlets often frame activists as threats, while centre/left ones portray them less negatively. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1329...

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Polarised media framing of climate movements: A comparative mixed-methods analysis of Australia and Germany - Katharina Esau, Hendrik Meyer, Mike Farjam, Axel Bruns, Helena Rauxloh, Michael Brüggemann...

This study investigates the media framing of climate movements in Australia and Germany. Media frames are powerful tools for shaping public perceptions of socia...

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🌄 Limitations & Outlook (follow-up studies are in the making) – Analysis focused on elites; the fringes of far-right TikTok may look quite different. – Since EU elections, platform dynamics may have shifted, with other parties (e.g., Die Linke) catching up ahead of the 2025 federal election.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

⏩ Overall, the AfD generates engagement through divisive frames yet sustains attention — while veiling its radical and extremist positions — by blending established far-right narratives with everyday concerns.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

– Out-group and migration-related themes appeared less often but still generated strong engagement. This may reflect ... (a) a strategic shift toward themes that resonate with citizens, and/or (b) entrenched exclusionary tropes of 'thick populism' that remain implicit in much of the discourse.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

❗/💡 Discussion / Interpretation – Beyond identity-based attacks, the AfD strategically foregrounded real-world concerns that resonate with potential voters ... while still intertwining them with anti-elite cues.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

– Horizontal protectionism (e.g., migration critique, gender/wokeness) was least frequent (~30%). – AfD dominance: higher overall engagement rate and far greater output (from accounts with ≥100k lifetime likes) than all other German parties combined.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📈 Results: What Was Posted & What Drives Engagement? – Anti-elitism and out-group attacks generated higher per-video engagement. – Yet most content leaned toward anti-elite messages or concern-focused themes (economy/inflation, security, rights/freedoms).

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🧩 Populist Themes & Types (theory-grounded) We identified 12 themes organized into 3 populist types: 1. Horizontal protectionism (identity/out-group: migrants, “wokeism”) 2. Vertical protectionism (anti-elitism/anti-institutionalism) 3. Concerns of the people (economy/inflation, security, freedoms)

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🔍 Data & Methods Timeframe: Mar–Jun 2024 – Content analysis: LLM-enhanced topic modeling (based on 'Concept Induction' by Lam et al., 2024) on 1,271 AfD video transcripts from 54 AfD accounts. – Engagement comparison: Platform metrics from 109 politicians (5,590 videos in total)

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

❓ Research Interests – How did AfD politicians use TikTok to communicate populist content during the run-up to the EU elections? – How did these communication strategies relate to user engagement?

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Excited to share our new #OpenAccess article in Information, Communication & Society: “Beyond anti-elitism and out-group attacks: How concerns shape the AfD’s #populist representation on German #TikTok during the 2024 #EU #elections” /w @julialenz.bsky.social, L. Rodeck & @drfell.bsky.social (⬇️ 🧵)

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

3️⃣ This also calls for journalistic self-reflection: Is the broader media sphere amplifying narratives set by right-wing populist actors—even when attempting to deconstruct them?

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

2️⃣ Crucially, when covering LG, the media sphere converges on narratives used mainly by right-wing populist outlets for FFF, even when some outlets aim to critique/deconstruct those narratives.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

❗ Main takeaways 1️⃣ The protest paradigm intensifies with disruptiveness: event-, criminality-, and extremism-focused coverage crowds out substantive questions of climate justice.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

- The debate about protest demands recedes when protests are disruptive; extremism/criminality take center stage. - Qualitative evidence shows that, based on newsroom ideologies, outlets still differ in evaluation and in who the emotional language targets—but the topical focus nonetheless converges.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🔎 What we find - For FFF, frame use and anger align with newsroom ideology: right-leaning outlets stress criminality/extremism; other outlets reference climate justice more often. - For LG, coverage is more emotionally charged and dominated by criminality/extremism frames across newsroom ideologies.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🧪 What we did - Combined Word2Vec semantic mapping, an anger classifier, and qualitative close reading. - Identified three salient frames: Global Climate Justice, Criminality, Extremism. - Modeled outlet differences across the ideological spectrum.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

➡️ We analyzed 6,632 news articles from 21 German outlets (Jan 2022–May 2023) to compare coverage of Fridays for Future (FFF) and the more disruptive Letzte Generation (LG).

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📢 Happy to see this #OpenAccess paper out in #Journalism! "From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests" with @mikefarjam.bsky.social, Helena Rauxloh & Michael Brüggemann

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Bob E Hayes @bobehayes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct #LLMs for Automated Coding During #ContentAnalysis |@mikefarjam.bsky.social, ‪@hendrikmeyer.bsky.social‬, Meike Lohkamp journals.sagepub.com... #GenerativeAI

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Okay, puh --- also kein falscher Link von mir :D

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Super, dann sind die technical issues auf der Seite wohl gelöst & danke! :)

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

If you’re working with LLMs for text analysis, this framework might serve as a foundation for building your own coding pipeline around LLM-based classification (?) :)

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

LLM disagreement can potentially serve both as an indicator of model limitations and as a diagnostic tool—revealing deeper issues in the operationalization of coding categories.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

➡️ When reliability drops, it may not always be the model that fails—in our use case, these shortcomings may result from the coding category being too vague, the documentation too superficial, or the concept evoking different understandings.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📉 We also reflect on the limitations of our approach when applied to particularly complex coding categories: For constructs like “efficacy,” our results suggest that we may need to rethink the categories themselves—not just the tools we use to code them.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Humans remain in the loop—ensuring reliability and coherence between theory and classification. We show that this setup outperforms unstructured prompting—particularly for more complex constructs—achieving significantly higher intercoder reliability, comparable to that of human coders.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Rather than relying on a single model run, our pipeline combines: - an Instructor LLM that generates optimized prompts, - multiple iterations of a Classifier LLM that codes texts with explicit reasoning, - and a Judge LLM that adjudicates between outputs when inconsistencies arise.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🤖 We introduce an "agentic workflow" approach that assigns distinct roles during the prompting of Large Language Models to achieve higher reliability—even for nuanced concepts:

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We replicate and extend Feldman et al.’s study on climate change coverage in U.S. newspapers, using LLMs to scale the analysis, apply it cross-linguistically, and code with greater granularity.

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🗓️ Monday (13:30–14:45, Colorado B) #PoliticalCommunication “Beyond Ideology and Anti-Elitism: The AfD’s Populist Representation on German TikTok” (pres. by me, w/ @julialenz.bsky.social, @lrdck.bsky.social, @drfell.bsky.social) Which strategies were employed on TikTok during the 2024 EU elections?

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