Publications

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
T. Ruiz, A. Nanz, U. Schmid, C. Schwemmer, Y. Theocharis, D. Rieger
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Simplifying Sociology: When Complex Writing Occurs, Where It Matters, and How It Can Be Improved
C. Schwemmer, S. Block, S. Jaworeck, M. Holz, P. Spielbauer
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Can legislative speech unveil conflict between coalition parties? An empirical illustration based on two examples in the German Bundestag
H. Bergmann, L. Geese, C. Schwemmer, C. Koß
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Rethinking Ground Truth: A Case Study on Human Label Variation in MLLM Benchmarking
T. Ruiz, T. Agustoslu, C. Schwemmer
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BoN Appetit Team at LeWiDi-2025: Best-of-N Test-time Scaling Can Not Stomach Annotation Disagreements (Yet)
T. Ruiz, S. Peng, B. Plank, C. Schwemmer
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From hashtags to ballots: Conceptualizing political influencers and evaluating their impact on election outcomes
C. Schwemmer, M. Riedl
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Politicization and Right-Wing Normalization on YouTube: A Topic-Based Analysis of the 'Alternative Influence Network'
C. Knüpfer, C. Schwemmer, A. Heft
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Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
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Automated Image Analysis for Studying Online Behaviour
C. Schwemmer, S. Unger, R. Heiberger
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Manipulative practices are the norm in political emails: evidence from 100K emails from the 2020 U.S. election cycle
A. Mathur, A. Wang, C. Schwemmer, M. Hamin, B. Stewart, A. Narayanan
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The Rise of Political Influencers - Perspectives on a Trend Towards Meaningful Content
M. Riedl, C. Schwemmer, S. Ziewiecki, L. Ross
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The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement
C. Schwemmer
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The Politics of Select Committee Assignments in the British House of Commons
J. Fernandes, T. Saalfeld, C. Schwemmer
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Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems
C. Schwemmer, C. Knight, E. Bello-Pardo, S. Oklobdzija, M. Schoonvelde, J. Lockhart
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The Methodological Divide of Sociology - Evidence From Two Decades of Journal Publications
C. Schwemmer, O. Wieczorek
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The networking of influencers - an analysis of the German YouTube scene
S. Ziewiecki, C. Schwemmer
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Collective Sense-Making in Times of Crisis: Connecting Terror Management Theory with Twitter Reactions to the Berlin Terrorist Attack
D. Fischer-Preßler, C. Schwemmer, K. Fischbach
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Whose ideas are worth spreading? The representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks
C. Schwemmer, S. Jungkunz
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Media Bias Towards African-Americans Before and After the Charlottesville Rally
J. Leschke, C. Schwemmer
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Xenophobia before and after the Paris 2015 Attacks. Evidence from a Natural Experiment
S. Jungkunz, M. Helbling, C. Schwemmer
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The Impact of Candidate Selection Rules and Electoral Vulnerability on Legislative Behavior in Comparative Perspective
J. M. Fernandes, L. Geese, C. Schwemmer
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MPs' Principals and the Substantive Representation of Disadvantaged Immigrant Groups
L. Geese, C. Schwemmer
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Election proximity and representation focus in party-constrained environments
J. M. Fernandes, C. Leston-Bandeira, C. Schwemmer
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Ride with Me - Ethnic Discrimination, Social Markets and the Sharing Economy
J. D. Tjaden, C. Schwemmer, M. Khadjavi
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Social Media Sellout - The Increasing Role of Product Promotion on YouTube
C. Schwemmer, S. Ziewiecki
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Terror Management and Twitter: The Case of the 2016 Berlin Terrorist Attack
D. Fischer-Preßler, C. Schwemmer, K. Fischbach
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Content Reconstruction of Parliamentary Questions. Combining Metadata with an OCR Process
F. Fitsilis, T. Saalfeld, C. Schwemmer
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Beyond Correctness: Evaluating and Improving LLM Feedback in Statistical Education
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