The 2026 Annual Conference of the Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) will focus on the use of computer-assisted methods and digital behavioral data in media usage and media effects research. The HBI will be represented in the program with four presentations.
Contributions of the HBI at a Glance
1 October 2026
Panel: Networks, Discourses and Platform Dynamics, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Presentation: (How) Do Far-Right Narratives Get Disseminated into the Mainstream? An Exploratory Study of Three Cases from Germany
Speakers: Azade Kakavand, Philipp Kessling, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt
Presentation: Maps of Semantically Networked Discourses
Speaker: Philipp Kessling
2 October 2026
Panel: Repertoires, Fragmentation and Algorithmic Reach, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presentation: Extracting News Media Repertoires from Web-Tracking Data: Issue Salience as a Product of Different Repertoires
Speakers: Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Judith Gilsbach, Lars Christian Reinelt, Julia Behre
Panel: LLMs, Automated Coding and Validity, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Presentation: What do LLMs ‘Understand’ by Framing? A Critical Examination of Frame Classification with LLMs
Speakers: Laura Liebig, Gregor Wiedemann, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
