Advancing Research Designs and Methods in Political Communication

Abstract

This panel presents papers addressing platform complexities, data collection, and analysis challenges – and how to overcome them. Papers cover innovative cross-platform studies, multilingual text analysis validation, and cutting-edge methods for detecting negative campaigning. Through these papers, we refine our understanding of how to advance research designs and methods in political communication.

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The curse of dimensionality of comparative data collection across platforms and time - Challenges and approaches	View Paper Details
A validation framework for multilingual computational text analysis in the social sciences	View Paper Details
New off-the-shelf methods: Assessing pre-trained transformers for negative campaigning detection	View Paper Details