About
Andreas Jungherr is a Research Associate at the Chair of Political Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His research focuses on the effects of the internet on political communication. He also consults political parties in the planning and conducting of online campaigns. He worked for the webcamp09 (Hessen 2009, state election), the teAM Deutschland (Germany 2009, federal election) and NRW für Rüttgers (NRW 2010, state election). Andreas Jungherr is also a regular speaker at events organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Hanns-Seidel Stiftung.
With Harald Schoen he has written the book Das Internet in Wahlkämpfen: Konzepte, Wirkungen und Kampagnenfunktionen. His articles have appeared in Social Science Computer Review, German Politics, Policy & Internet, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, Internationale Politik and Transformative Works and Cultures.
Selected Publications:
Andreas Jungherr and Harald Schoen. 2013. Das Internet in Wahlkämpfen: Konzepte, Wirkungen und Kampagnenfunktionen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Andreas Jungherr. 2012. “Online campaigning in Germany: The CDU online campaign for the general election 2009 in Germany.” German Politics 21(3): 317-340.
Andreas Jungherr. 2012. “The German federal election of 2009: The challenge of participatory cultures in political campaigns.” Transformative Works and Cultures 10. doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0310.
Pascal Jürgens, Andreas Jungherr, & Harald Schoen. (2011). Small Worlds with a Difference: New Gatekeepers and the Filtering of Political Information on Twitter. In Proceedings of the ACM WebSci’11. New York, NY: ACM.
Pascal Jürgens and Andreas Jungherr (2011) ‘Wahlkampf vom Sofa aus: Twitter im Bundestagswahlkampf 2009’, in: Eva Johanna Schweitzer and Steffen Albrecht (eds.), Das Internet im Wahlkampf: Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2009, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft.
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2010) ‘The political click: political participation through e-petitions in Germany’, Policy & Internet, 2(4) Article 6.
Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Twitter in Politics: Lessons Learned during the German Superwahljahr 2009’. Position Paper presented at the Workshop on Microblogging at the CHI10 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Atlanta, USA on 10-15 April.
Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Online-Wahlkampf in Nordrhein-Westfalen’, Politik trifft Web 2.0: Politcamp 2010, Berlin, Germany on 20-21 March.
Andreas Jungherr (2009) ‘Twitternde Politiker: Zwischen buntem Rauschen und Bürgernähe 2.0’, in: Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß and Jörn Lamla (eds.), Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt: Das Internet zwischen egalitärer Beteiligung und ökonomischer Macht, Frankfurt am Main.
Andreas Jungherr (2009) The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism.
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Last updated: December 28, 2012.