
Tobias Widmann
@TobiasWidmann
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Assistant Professor in PolSci @AarhusUni | PhD @EUI_EU | Political Communication | Computational Political Science | Political Psych | Political Behavior
Aarhus, Denmark
Joined November 2013
🚨 Happy to have this study (with @simonsen_kris ) out today in @PSRMJournal. I think it is a timely paper on how (radical-right) politicians and parties can use moral-emotional appeals to set the 'tone' of public debate -> focusing on the immigration debate in Germany. 👇
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Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 https://t.co/fe6O6Q1MTz
tandfonline.com
To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...
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Join Our Team! 🚨 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We’re looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 https://t.co/CYNfxCT45t
bss.au.dk
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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🌟 We can't wait for our upcoming talk. Join us next Wednesday at 5pm(CET) for a talk by @humeyrabiricik on "Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding". Find more details below ⬇️
📢 We are excited to announce that the https://t.co/KFc0hMdGV8 ✨speaker series is back w/ an incredible lineup for this 🍁❄️term w/ @LexiPalmer_, @humeyrabiricik, @ML_Burn, @CChiopris & Tobias Hofmann ⬇️
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We are pleased to announce that #COMPTEXT2025 will take place at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April 2025. With the great organising team @CompCommLab
@IPKW_univie, we will soon release the Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations! Stay tuned!
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🚨 Just out in @PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against
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CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position @HumboldtUni. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!
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🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in @PNASNexus 🚨 🔗 https://t.co/MLlQGen6Nj Here’s what I find 🧵1/6
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🕸️Using convolutional neural networks and 👱 the facial features of 7,080 Danish politicians, A.Lindholm, C.Hjorth & @julianschuess show attractiveness correlates positively with ballot paper placement and electoral support https://t.co/7qLW0MCzok
#FirstView #OpenAccess
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❓Do political actors appeal to discrete emotions? In this recent @the_JOP blog piece, @TobiasWidmann investigates how politicians adapt their emotional rhetoric to increased political conflict over climate change⬇️
jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de
Hot topics and Emotional Politics Some issues, like migration, war, or climate change, ignite strong emotions. They are not just important topics; they are also politically divisive, offering...
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Excited that my study on homelessness governance during Covid-19 is now online at @UrbanAffairsRev 🥳 Link to article:
journals.sagepub.com
At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation of people experiencing homelessness, and what communities could do to protect this vulnerable subpopulation...
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Happy to see this in print. This covers opinion mining with supervised classifiers, NLI classifiers, and LLMs. Consider adding it to your syllabus if you’re teaching text as data!
#OpenAccess from @PSRMjournal - Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text - https://t.co/JxQkFtXGsl - @ML_Burn
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Good things come in threes! At times, it’s felt like I’d never get to publish anything again (I know I know🎻🎻🎻 – but if you’ve ever been there…). All the happier and relieved that this summer has delivered 3 key publications on immigration, boundaries, and moralization 🧵👇🏼
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“Our findings indicate that politicians do not follow the public. On the contrary, politicians set the tone of public debate.”
🚨 Happy to have this study (with @simonsen_kris ) out today in @PSRMJournal. I think it is a timely paper on how (radical-right) politicians and parties can use moral-emotional appeals to set the 'tone' of public debate -> focusing on the immigration debate in Germany. 👇
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🚨 Happy to have this study (with @simonsen_kris ) out today in @PSRMJournal. I think it is a timely paper on how (radical-right) politicians and parties can use moral-emotional appeals to set the 'tone' of public debate -> focusing on the immigration debate in Germany. 👇
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🗣️Using a transformer model to identify moral and moral-emotional appeals, @TobiasWidmann & @simonsen_kris show the important role of radical-right challengers in shaping public discourse in a negative moral-emotional direction https://t.co/sW1gPZgWs9
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Here is the link to the second study: https://t.co/scLa1Td0Bc
🚨 Happy to have this study (with @simonsen_kris ) out today in @PSRMJournal. I think it is a timely paper on how (radical-right) politicians and parties can use moral-emotional appeals to set the 'tone' of public debate -> focusing on the immigration debate in Germany. 👇
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