Am Mittwoch, den 29.05. 18 Uhr s.t., (GFG 01-611) ist Nils Weidmann (Universität Konstanz) zu Gast im Institutskolloquium und spricht zum Thema "How Leaders Portray Themselves on Social Media Images".
Abstract:
While traditional political communication is often mediated by news coverage, social media platforms allow leaders to circumvent news gatekeepers to raise their profiles and directly communicate with citizens. For this purpose, visual material has been shown to be very effective. However, the incentives for leaders to visually present themselves on social media and as a result, the images they choose for publication, are likely to differ by regime type. Democratic leaders should be more likely to emphasize social aspects and to be more inclusive, but at the same time should be less likely to present themselves in the images they post. We test these expectations using a large new data collection of images posted by a global sample of political leaders on social media. Using computer vision techniques, we extract information on the image content, in order to analyze differences in this content between democracies and autocracies.
Nils Weidmann hat Informatik an der Universität Freiburg und Politikwissenschaft an der ETH Zürich studiert, wo er 2009 auch promovierte. Seit 2015 ist er Professor für Politikwissenschaft und Leiter der Forschungsgruppe "Communication, Networks and Contention" an der Universität Konstanz. Zuvor war er Postdoc am Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo (2011-12), am Jackson Institute, Yale University (2010-11), und an der Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (2009-10).
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