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The Journal of International Press/Politics just published a new article written by Andreas Jungherr, Oliver Posegga, and Jisun An. In “Discursive Power in Contemporary Media Systems” we provide a comparative framework for the empirical analysis of influence in contemporary media systems.

Yannis Theocharis (University of Bremen) and Andreas Jungherr will be editing a special issue of Political Communication focusing on Computational Political Communication: Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary Challenges. Our goal is to offer a forum for work that illustrates the potential of computational methods and large data sets in political communication research.

The ECPR Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice is pleased to announce the 2019 conference on Analyzing Strategic Interactions in Political Decision-making. The conference will take place at CIES-IUL in Lisbon, Portugal from 09 to 11 May 2019. We seek both empirical and theoretical papers which analyze strategic interactions in political decision-making.

Susumu Shikano will present a paper "Ballot Sequence and Choice Set Effects on Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems" (co-authored with Erik Herron, West Virginia University) at the upcoming annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 4.-7. April 2019 in Chicago.

Susumu Shikano will teach a course "Introduction to Bayesian Models for the Social Sciences" at the 48th GESIS Spring Seminar, 11.-15. March 2019 in Cologne.

In the chapter “Detection of Election Fraud” of the Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, vol. 2, Susumu Shikano and Verena Mack reviewed the recent developments in research on detection of election fraud in political science and its related disciplines.

In the paper "Characterizing Political Talk on Twitter: A Comparison Between Public Agenda, Media Agendas, and the Twitter Agenda with Regard to Topics and Dynamics", we show that prominent topics discussed during an election campaign in Germany diverged strongly, depending on whether they were identified based on Twitter messages, mass media coverage, or survey responses. It seems futile to expect social media to mirror political reality truly. It appears more fruitful to use differences in the…

On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 11:45 am, Lukas Rudolph (ETH Zurich) will speak in room F425 about "Europe's refugee crisis, intergroup contact and asylum attitudes".

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded a 3-year research grant for an interdisciplinary research project entitled "Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media Bias". The project will be carried out jointly by the team of Karsten Donnay (Politics and Public Administration) and Bela Gipp (Computer Science).