Marvin Stecker
@marvins.bsky.social
I do research somewhere between political communication, computational methods and culture and identity.
PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab & Department of Government
University of Vienna
www.marvinstecker.com
PhD student, Computational Communication Science Lab & Department of Government
University of Vienna
www.marvinstecker.com
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Marvin Stecker
@marvins.bsky.social
· Aug 19
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
www.cambridge.org
New publication, out in Political Analysis:
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
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Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
OSF
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November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
Reposted by Marvin Stecker
Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
TIL that data.table in R natively provides you with an option to perform multi-step per-row operations, and without even neeeding to prompt it, gives you a beautiful (speaking utilitarian, not aesthetical) progress bar.
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
TIL that data.table in R natively provides you with an option to perform multi-step per-row operations, and without even neeeding to prompt it, gives you a beautiful (speaking utilitarian, not aesthetical) progress bar.
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Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....
Grounding the Comparative Turn in Communications: A Framework for ValidatingMultilingual Computational Text Analysis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Following the progressing internationalisation of social science research and the computational turn in the field,
researchers are increasingly adopting computational text analysis (CTA) methods to co...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....
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Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvins.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvins.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.
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Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our findings...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our findings...
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
www.cambridge.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our findings...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our findings...
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Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense –
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳
September 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense –
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳
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Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig
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Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
NEW -
Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ
- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ
- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
New publication, out in Political Analysis:
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
www.cambridge.org
August 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New publication, out in Political Analysis:
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
Reposted by Marvin Stecker
🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨
Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨
Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
"From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me
"From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election
The 2024 Austrian parliament election reflects both continuity and transformation within the political landscape of the country. Following a turbulent inter-election period marked by multiple crise...
doi.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:
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Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.
A thread 👇 (1/n)
#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
A thread 👇 (1/n)
#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55
cup.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.
A thread 👇 (1/n)
#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
A thread 👇 (1/n)
#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
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Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐
👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐
👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
This is the only score I shall ever share because it was easy and I suck at this game
and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps
Connections
Puzzle #756
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and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps
Connections
Puzzle #756
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July 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the only score I shall ever share because it was easy and I suck at this game
and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps
Connections
Puzzle #756
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps
Connections
Puzzle #756
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📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
July 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
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Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
June 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Does anyone like data wrangling?
June 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Does anyone like data wrangling?
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Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀
@stawi-univie.bsky.social
@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
@stawi-univie.bsky.social
@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀
@stawi-univie.bsky.social
@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
@stawi-univie.bsky.social
@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
If you’re stressed with planning conferences, we’ve basically got a paper for every slot ;)
#EPSA2025
#EPSA2025
From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you’re stressed with planning conferences, we’ve basically got a paper for every slot ;)
#EPSA2025
#EPSA2025
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🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom
June 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom
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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?
What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
🧵 1/10
What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
🧵 1/10
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?
What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
🧵 1/10
What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
🧵 1/10
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From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
June 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
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Today I was lucky enough to present my master‘s thesis on climate solutions journalism in the same panel at #ica25 as Kathryn Thier, who I cited so much in my thesis 😁
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today I was lucky enough to present my master‘s thesis on climate solutions journalism in the same panel at #ica25 as Kathryn Thier, who I cited so much in my thesis 😁
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social
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between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men
Lots of horrifying/enraging detail: “YouTube was created after one of its founders was frustrated by how long it took him to find an online clip of Janet Jackson’s nipple-exposing “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.”
June 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men