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Wikipedia: A Challenger's Best Friend? Utilising Information-seeking Behaviour Patterns to Predict US Congressional Elections
Hamza Salem, Fabian Stephany
Election prediction has long been an evergreen in political science literature. Traditionally, such efforts included polling aggregates, economic indicators, partisan affiliation,…
How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter: 'Highjacking' Hashtags in Times of COVID-19
Philipp Darius, Fabian Stephany
Twitter influences political debates. Phenomena like fake news and hate speech show that political discourse on micro-blogging can become strongly polarised by algorithmic enforcem…
How to Hijack Twitter: Online Polarisation Strategies of Germany's Political Far-Right
Philipp Darius, Fabian Stephany
With a network approach, we examine the case of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and their potential use of a "hashjacking" strategy. Our findings sugge…
Social media self-branding and success: Quantitative evidence from a model competition
Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany
Thanks to the availability of large online data sets, it has become possible to quantify success in different fields of human endeavour. The study presented here contributes to thi…