ankuepfer.bsky.social
Postdoc @ TU Darmstadt, currently visiting University of Birmingham | Studying political behaviour with multimodal data (text, video, audio) | PhD Political Science & MSc Data Science (Uni Mannheim) | #firstgen andreaskuepfer.github.io
👤 Joined on 24 September 2023
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@ankuepfer.bsky.social📝 New paper in Party Politics (open access) with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @janberz.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... When a mainstream party accommodates the radical right, do its potential coalition partners pay too? 🧵
Show PostThe use of AI in political ads is not evenly distributed: “More than 80 percent of the ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees” #midterms #AI #ads $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
Show Post🤔LMs are like “Auto-Tune for ideas” 🎯. They can smooth out rough thinking, sharpen a half-formed argument, and make an idea more immediately legible. But critics are right that AI can be reductive, flattening nuance and sanding away the weird edges that make ideas original.
Show Post2/3 We use 30,000+ hours of Bundestag and Landtag video. Mainstream parties do distance themselves with positive language on average, but sequentially they mirror the AfD. Textual negativity and non-verbal activation are distinct signals that cannot stand in for each other.
Show Post1/3 Off to Cork for #PSAI2026 to present "Far-Right Speeches and Emotional Contagion in Parliament---Sequential and Multimodal Evidence from Germany" w @ankuepfer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social
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