Curriculum Vitae
Andreas Jungherr
Bamberg, Germany
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Lehrstuhl für politische Soziologie
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg
EDUCATION
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg
Phd Student, Political Science (Since 2009)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Student, Political Science, American Studies, History (2002-2009)
Universität Konstanz
Student, English, History (2002)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political leadership
Political communication
Social web and politics
Computational social science
Analysis of social networks
Complexity in the social sciences
Political activism
Structures of parties and political organizations
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings:
Pascal Jürgens and Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Wahlkampf vom Sofa aus: Twitter im Bundestagswahlkampf 2009’, in: Eva Johanna Schweitzer and Steffen Albrecht (eds.), Das Internet im Wahlkampf: Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2009, (forthcoming).
Daniel Schultz and Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Applications: Picking the Right One in a Transient World’, in: Mary Joyce (ed.), Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, New York & Amsterdam.
Pascal Jürgens and Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Breaking the barrier: Interactive Election Campaign Communication on Twitter during the German General Election 2009’, in: Martin Welker, Holger Geißler, Lars Kaczmirek, Olaf Wenzel (eds.), 12th General Online Research Conference, GOR 10: Proceedings, Pforzheim.
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.
Pascal Jürgens and Andreas Jungherr (2009) ‘Twittering Dissent: Social Web Data Streams as Basis for Agent Based Models of Opinion Dynamics’, in: Martin Welker, Holger Geißler, Lars Kaczmirek, Olaf Wenzel (eds.), 11th General Online Research Conference, GOR 09: Proceedings, Vienna, p. 81.
Pascal Jürgens, Andreas Jungherr and Benjamin Heitmann (2009) ‘The interplay of theory and observation: a proposition for structured research on human behavior on the web’, in: Proceedings of the WebSci’09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece.
Other Publications:
Mary Joyce, Andreas Jungherr and Daniel Schultz (2009) Testimony on „Twitter against Tyrants: New Media in Authoritarian Regimes“, before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 22 October 2009.
Andreas Jungherr (2009) The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism.
Andreas Jungherr (2006) „Von der Bedeutung der Erzählungen: Politische Führer als Meistererzähler“, in: Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung (Hrsg.), Aufsatzwettbewerb: Politische Führung in der Demokratie. Berlin: Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung, S. 10-18.
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentations:
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2010) ‘What lies in a click: political participation through e-petitions in Germany’. Paper presented at the Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK on 16-17 September.
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2010) ‘Community structures in political supporter networks on Twitter: An examination of political supporter networks on Twitter during the campaign for the German general election 2009’. Paper presented at the seminar Power, decision-making and social networks organised by the European Science Foundation: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2, Dublin, Ireland on 25-27 August.
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2010) ‘Just a conversation like any other? A network analysis of digital activism in the German Twittersphere’. Paper presented at the SunBelt XXX, Trento, Italy on June 29 – July 04.
Andreas Jungherr (2010) ‘Build it and they will come: online campaigning in Germany for the 2009 general elections’. Paper presented at the MPSA 68th National Conference, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA on 22-25 April.
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 (2009) ‘You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road: 4 Ways how Political Leaders find into Politics’. Paper presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference: European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany on 10-12 September 2009.
Andreas Jungherr (2009) ‘Digital channels, the change in community structures and its consequences for social participation’. Paper presented at the ISEA 2009: International Symposium for the Electronic Arts, University of Ulster, Belfast, UK on 23 August – 1 September 2009.
Andreas Jungherr (2009) ‘Leadership in Politics? A Qualitative Examination of Young Politicians in Hessen’. Paper presented at the MPSA 67th National Conference, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA on 2-5 April.
Andreas Jungherr (2008) ‘Twittering Activists: the Uses of Twitter for Political Activism’. Paper presented at “Social Web: Towards Networked Protest Politics?” Organized by the SFB Changing Protest and Media Cultures SFB/FK 615 Media Upheavals University of Siegen, Germany on 7-8 November.
Poster Sessions:
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2008) ‘Modeling Small-Group Interaction on Pervasive Digital Channels: New Influence on Public Opinion’. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences. Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland on 18-23 August.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Stipendiat der Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft. 2004-2007.
2nd place. Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung essay competition “Political Leadership in a Democracy”. 2005.
SERVICE
Member of the program committee of the conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice 2010, part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCIS 2010), Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany on 26 – 28 July 2010.
Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft: Organizer, Schweigen Silber, Reden Gold? Politische Kommunikation heute – Chancen und Grenzen. Berlin. November 2006.
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
DVPW Arbeitskreis Parteienforschung
INSNA International Network for Social Network Analysis
MPSA Midwest Political Science Association
Napoko