1. Research area

    Methods

    Measurement · Digital trace data · Computational social science

    Online data look like a window on society, but mostly they measure attention, not opinions or political support. Since the first Twitter election forecasts I have shown where these data mislead and how to use them with their limitations and data-generating process in mind. Today I bring the same questions to AI-enabled methods for persuasion, search, and simulation.

    For anyone reading election forecasts or the public mood off social media or AI: what these numbers can and cannot show.

Selected publications

Recent publications 9

2025 3

  1. Computational Political Communication: Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary ChallengesEdited by Yannis Theocharis and Andreas JungherrRoutledge · Edited volume
  2. Digital Trace DataAndreas JungherrIn Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping, and Dominique Wirz, pp. 454–457 · Edward Elgar · Chapter
  3. Social Media and Electoral Prediction: Ten Years AfterDaniel Gayo-Avello, Andreas Jungherr, and Gonzalo RiveroIn Handbook of Computational Social Science, edited by Taha Yasseri, pp. 360–371 · Edward Elgar · Chapter

2023 1

  1. Computational Social ScienceAndreas Jungherr and Oliver PoseggaIn Handbuch Digitalisierung und politische Beteiligung, edited by Norbert Kersting, Jörg Radtke, and Sigrid Baringhorst, pp. 1–17 · Springer VS · Chapter

2021 2

  1. Computational Political Communication: Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary ChallengesEdited by Yannis Theocharis and Andreas JungherrPolitical Communication 38(1–2) · Edited volume
  2. Computational Social Science and the Study of Political CommunicationYannis Theocharis and Andreas JungherrPolitical Communication 38(1–2): 1–22 · Peer-reviewed article

2019 3

  1. Characterizing Political Talk on Twitter: A Comparison Between Public Agenda, Media Agendas, and the Twitter Agenda with Regard to Topics and DynamicsOliver Posegga and Andreas JungherrIn Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 52), pp. 2590–2599 · University of Hawaii at Manoa, ScholarSpace · Chapter
  2. Digitale Verhaltensdaten und Computational Social Science in der politischen KommunikationsforschungSebastian Stier and Andreas JungherrIn Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft, edited by Jeannette Hofmann, Norbert Kersting, Claudia Ritzi, and Wolf J. Schünemann, pp. 309–325 · transcript · Chapter
  3. Political Discussions in Homogeneous and Cross-Cutting Communication SpacesJisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Oliver Posegga, and Andreas JungherrIn Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2019), pp. 68–79 · Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) · Chapter

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