Computational Political Communication: Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary Challenges

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Yannis Theocharis Andreas Jungherr

Computational Political Communication

Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary Challenges

Yannis Theocharis, Andreas Jungherr

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English

Routledge
11 November 2024

linguistics; Communication studies; Humanities; Media studies; Political campaigning & advertising

The challenge of disentangling political communication processes and their effects has grown with the complexity of the new political information environment. But so have scientists’ toolsets and capacities to better study and understand them. This edited volume focuses on the use of Computational Communication Science (CCS) to address key questions in political communication, highlighting methodological innovations and the theoretical, practical, and institutional challenges in the field. Topics include clickbaiting, propaganda, political polarization, and media framing.

The book starts by mapping the challenges and opportunities of data collection and analysis, focusing on computational methods to address theory-driven questions in political communication. Chapters highlight the theoretical, empirical, and institutional aspects of Computational Communication Science (CCS) relevant to the field, assessing the challenges of data requirements, digital signal semantics, and the crucial role of infrastructures, academic institutions, ethics, and training in computational methods. Considering all of these aspects, individual chapters showcase methodological innovations, applying CCS to topics like clickbaiting in the context of propaganda in authoritarian regimes, the visual content produced by political elites, political and affective polarization, and the media coverage of public policy as well as framing in the news media. The volume also offers scholarly contributions on the theoretical, practical, and institutional significance of CCS and the challenges in realizing its potential in political communication.

A significant contribution to the field of political communication, this volume will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies, politics, media studies and sociology. It was originally published in Political Communication.

Edited by: Yannis Theocharis, Andreas Jungherr
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 548g
ISBN: 9781032902449
ISBN 10: 1032902442
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 11 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yannis Theocharis holds the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests are in political behavior, political communication, harmful speech and content moderation and computational social science. He is a core member of the Munich Data Science Institute and director of the Content Moderation Lab at the TUM Think Tank. Andreas Jungherr holds the Chair for Political Science, especially Digital Transformation at the University of Bamberg’s Institute for Political Science. His research explores the impact of digital media on politics and society, with a particular emphasis on algorithms, artificial intelligence, and governance. He also investigates the challenges scientific research faces in response to digital change, aiming to unlock the opportunities presented by new data sources and analytical methods. His work centres on leveraging digital methods and computational social science, while also addressing the methodological challenges of integrating these approaches into the social sciences.