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Marvin Stecker

@marvins.bsky.social

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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

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 19d

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🥳

Picture of the committee, from left to right. Annie, Nicola, Azade, Eva, and Hajo.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 22d

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

Group photo: The CCL team standing together outdoors with the mountains around Dienten an Hochkönig in Salzburg in the background, smiling at the camera.

Ski lift: A line of orange ski lift chairs stretching up a green slope surrounded by dense forest to get up the mountain.

Hiking trail: The CCL team hiking down a narrow trail across a sunlit mountain slope with autumn-colored vegetation.

Mountain view: A wide view of mountain peaks and ridges around Dienten am Hochkönig in Salzburg, with low-hanging clouds drifting between the valleys under a blue sky.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 23d

After an hour’s delay, you’ll get 25%, with two hours, 50% back from Deutsche Bahn. Doesn’t make up for the inconvenience, but it’s at least something…

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Sep 1

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!

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 20

Danke, danke! Hat sich ein Non-Diss Projekt mal ausgezahlt :D

Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks!

Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

What are our takeaways?
- Genuinely great breadth of tool development!
- These don’t agree, however, when applied to the same text
- Rather than criticising any single tool, we hope this is a benchmark and motivation to develop a more holistic, transparent and reflective approach to study morality

Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

So what about it? Predicting parties’ use of moral foundations from their ideology, the measurements would lead you to different conclusions. Sometimes this concerns only significance, but with others, you will even get different effect directions.

Regression table for all foundations on English translated manifestos, with the different effect directions for each measurement instrument. They often don't converge.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

We also compared the measurements on the original-language and English-translated manifestos. Dictionaries seem the hardest to translate. With all embedding-based measurements, their outputs are more similar, which is overall encouraging, though we also find some lower correlations here.

Correlations between original language and English-translated measurements. For CCR with different types of embeddings, these are rather high, as well as for DDR, whereas the MFD has noticeably lower values.

Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

What did we find? Considering the same English-language text, the measurements don’t really agree on how much a certain moral foundation is present. Most correlations between approaches are low, max 0.2 and 0.3.

A heatmap of Kendall's correlations between all applied tools, with mostly rather low correlations.

Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 19

What tools?
We looked at the most common, off-the-shelf methods to measure different moral foundations (such as care, sanctity) in texts.
Where did we look?
All 800+ manifestos from the Manifesto Project in Spanish, English, Dutch or German, and their English translations.

A table that shows the tools we analysed in the study. We considered the MFD and MFD2 dictionaries, the eMFD, and also applied DDR, CCR and MoralBERT models. Links and citations for all are in the paper.

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

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 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...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:

Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 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

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

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Jul 28

I've never felt such accomplishments as my Docker scripts running on another persons machine using only my horrible readme file to guide them.

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Jul 6

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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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 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.

dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.

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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Does anyone like data wrangling?

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Marta Vukovic @martav.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you’re stressed with planning conferences, we’ve basically got a paper for every slot ;)
#EPSA2025

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

The schedule of the presenters from the EPSA2025

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🥳 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

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