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Wiebke Drews she/her

Universität der Bundeswehr München

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About

My research is located at the nexus between politics and the digital. I am particularly interested in how new ICTs impact on representative democracy, how they transform political participation and the relationship between voters and parties, as well as party competition more broadly. I am passionate about social media analytics and text-as-data. At the University of the German Bundeswehr in Munich, I am responsible for the use case "Elections" of the research project SPARTA, where I am also doing my post-doc. In the project, we are monitoring and nowcasting electoral campaigns on Twitter and engage in research on negative campaigning, issue competition and the evolution of echo chambers. I was also the co-director of euandi2021, a VAA for the German elections powered by the European University Institute (EUI). In November 2020, I obtained my PhD from the EUI. My doctoral thesis is titled "Digital Politics Across Contexts, Social Media, Parties and Citizens: Technological Opportunities and Challenges in Modern Democracies".

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Cyber Politics, Elections, Elites, European Politics, Media, Party Manifestos, Political Competition, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Sociology, Campaign, Internet, Quantitative, Social Media, Communication, Electoral Behaviour, Party Systems, Political Activism, Political Engagement, Public Opinion, Voting Behaviour, Big Data

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