Daniel Maier
Biographic Data
| ID | 181011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Maier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Maier |
| SIGNATURE | MAIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6266-8987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward Mainstreaming of Feminist (Counter)Publics? The Networked Structure of Feminist Activism on Twitter
This study investigates the roles of feminist actors in the Twitter discourse about sexualized violence that came up during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in October 2018. We theorize the discourse from the perspective of feminist counterpublics because it helps in understanding the extant power relations in public debate that are also manifest in digital networks. In this empirical study, we reconstruct the T…
Translocal networked public spheres
In this study, we theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate translocal spatial arrangements of networked public spheres on social media. In digital communication networks, actors easily connect with others globally, crossing the borders of cities, nations and languages. However, the spatial notions evoked in public sphere research to date remain largely territorial. We propose a theoretical framework drawing on Löw’s sociology of sp…
Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament
Daniel Maier examines concepts of happiness in Second Temple literature. By analyzing different traditions of understanding the good life in Ancient Judaism, he opens up fresh perspectives on concepts of happiness in the New Testament that have been largely overlooked in the scholarly study of this field so far.
Glück Im Antiken Judentum und Im Neuen Testament
Was ist »Glück« für die Autoren des Neuen Testaments und für ihre jüdischen Zeitgenossen innerhalb und außerhalb Palästinas? Dieser wichtigen, aber dennoch selten gestellten Frage geht Daniel Maier mittels der Analyse verschiedener Glückstraditionen auf den Grund. Dabei untersucht er in einem ersten Schritt sowohl unterschiedliche Darstellungen der jüdischen Geschichte (z. B. Jubiläenbuch, Flavius Josephus) als auch philosophische Überlegungen (z…
Relational Communication Spaces
Digital communication technologies, social web platforms, and mobile communication have fundamentally altered the way we communicate publicly. They have also changed our perception of space, thus making a re-calibration of a spatial perspective on public communication necessary. We argue that such a new perspective must consider the relational logic of public communication, which stands in stark contrast to the plain territorial notion of space c…
Machine Translation Vs. Multilingual Dictionaries Assessing Two Strategies for the Topic Modeling of Multilingual Text Collections
The goal of this paper is to evaluate two methods for the topic modeling of multilingual document collections: (1) machine translation (MT), and (2) the coding of semantic concepts using a multilingual dictionary (MD) prior to topic modeling. We empirically assess the consequences of these approaches based on both a quantitative comparison of models and a qualitative validation of each method’s potentials and weaknesses. Our case study uses two t…
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media
While scholarly attention has been devoted to social media’s potential mobilizing function, they may also contribute to demobilization discourses: social communication actively promoting nonvoting. This paper examines discourses around mobilization vs. demobilization in the context of the municipal elections in Jerusalem. As the sweeping majority of East Jerusalem Palestinians have continuously been boycotting Jerusalem’s municipal elections, thi…
Community detection in civil society online networks
Community detection is a fundamental challenge in the analysis of online networks. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding how to accomplish this task in a manner that acknowledges domain-specific, substantive social theory. We develop a typology of what social phenomena communities of hyperlinked actors may signify—topical similarities, ideological associations, strategic alliances, and potential user traffic—and offer recommendations fo…
Homophily and prestige
Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic models are increasingly being used in communication research. Yet, questions regarding reliability and validity of the approach have received little attention thus far. In applying LDA to textual data, researchers need to tackle at least four major challenges that affect these criteria: (a) appropriate pre-processing of the text collection; (b) adequate selection of model parameters, including the number of…
Exploring Issues in a Networked Public Sphere
We propose a methodological approach to analyze the content of hyperlink networks which represent networked public spheres on the Internet. Using the case of the food safety movement in the United States, we demonstrate how to generate a hyperlink network with the web crawling tool Issue Crawler and merge it with the results of a probabilistic topic model of the network’s content. Combining hyperlink networks and content analysis allows us to int…
Big Data, Big Noise
In this article, we focus on noise in the sense of irrelevant information in a data set as a specific methodological challenge of web research in the era of big data. We empirically evaluate several methods for filtering hyperlink networks in order to reconstruct networks that contain only webpages that deal with a particular issue. The test corpus of webpages was collected from hyperlink networks on the issue of food safety in the United States …
Akteursbeziehungen in der Zeitungsberichterstattung über die Online-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks
Online networks of civil society actors as an indicator for politicization? A hyperlink analysis of the food safety issue in Germany
This article focuses on the constellations of actors engaged in the food safety debate in Germany and the potential of civil society organizations for mobilization and politicization of the issue. In an exploratory case study we assess the structure of communication between these organizations by applying hyperlink analysis. Our study sheds light on the nature of the issue network and in particular on their linkages with media and political actor…
Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic models are increasingly being used in communication research. Yet, questions regarding reliability and validity of the approach have received little attention thus far. In applying LDA to textual data, researchers need to tackle at least four major challenges that affect these criteria: (a) appropriate pre-processing of the text collection; (b) adequate selection of model parameters, including the number of…
Exploring Issues in a Networked Public Sphere
We propose a methodological approach to analyze the content of hyperlink networks which represent networked public spheres on the Internet. Using the case of the food safety movement in the United States, we demonstrate how to generate a hyperlink network with the web crawling tool Issue Crawler and merge it with the results of a probabilistic topic model of the network’s content. Combining hyperlink networks and content analysis allows us to int…
Big Data, Big Noise
In this article, we focus on noise in the sense of irrelevant information in a data set as a specific methodological challenge of web research in the era of big data. We empirically evaluate several methods for filtering hyperlink networks in order to reconstruct networks that contain only webpages that deal with a particular issue. The test corpus of webpages was collected from hyperlink networks on the issue of food safety in the United States …
Machine Translation Vs. Multilingual Dictionaries Assessing Two Strategies for the Topic Modeling of Multilingual Text Collections
The goal of this paper is to evaluate two methods for the topic modeling of multilingual document collections: (1) machine translation (MT), and (2) the coding of semantic concepts using a multilingual dictionary (MD) prior to topic modeling. We empirically assess the consequences of these approaches based on both a quantitative comparison of models and a qualitative validation of each method’s potentials and weaknesses. Our case study uses two t…
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media
While scholarly attention has been devoted to social media’s potential mobilizing function, they may also contribute to demobilization discourses: social communication actively promoting nonvoting. This paper examines discourses around mobilization vs. demobilization in the context of the municipal elections in Jerusalem. As the sweeping majority of East Jerusalem Palestinians have continuously been boycotting Jerusalem’s municipal elections, thi…
Akteursbeziehungen in der Zeitungsberichterstattung über die Online-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks
Toward Mainstreaming of Feminist (Counter)Publics? The Networked Structure of Feminist Activism on Twitter
This study investigates the roles of feminist actors in the Twitter discourse about sexualized violence that came up during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in October 2018. We theorize the discourse from the perspective of feminist counterpublics because it helps in understanding the extant power relations in public debate that are also manifest in digital networks. In this empirical study, we reconstruct the T…
Online networks of civil society actors as an indicator for politicization? A hyperlink analysis of the food safety issue in Germany
This article focuses on the constellations of actors engaged in the food safety debate in Germany and the potential of civil society organizations for mobilization and politicization of the issue. In an exploratory case study we assess the structure of communication between these organizations by applying hyperlink analysis. Our study sheds light on the nature of the issue network and in particular on their linkages with media and political actor…
Online networks of civil society actors as an indicator for politicization? A hyperlink analysis of the food safety issue in Germany
This article focuses on the constellations of actors engaged in the food safety debate in Germany and the potential of civil society organizations for mobilization and politicization of the issue. In an exploratory case study we assess the structure of communication between these organizations by applying hyperlink analysis. Our study sheds light on the nature of the issue network and in particular on their linkages with media and political actor…
Big Data, Big Noise
In this article, we focus on noise in the sense of irrelevant information in a data set as a specific methodological challenge of web research in the era of big data. We empirically evaluate several methods for filtering hyperlink networks in order to reconstruct networks that contain only webpages that deal with a particular issue. The test corpus of webpages was collected from hyperlink networks on the issue of food safety in the United States …
Akteursbeziehungen in der Zeitungsberichterstattung über die Online-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks
Exploring Issues in a Networked Public Sphere
We propose a methodological approach to analyze the content of hyperlink networks which represent networked public spheres on the Internet. Using the case of the food safety movement in the United States, we demonstrate how to generate a hyperlink network with the web crawling tool Issue Crawler and merge it with the results of a probabilistic topic model of the network’s content. Combining hyperlink networks and content analysis allows us to int…
Homophily and prestige
Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic models are increasingly being used in communication research. Yet, questions regarding reliability and validity of the approach have received little attention thus far. In applying LDA to textual data, researchers need to tackle at least four major challenges that affect these criteria: (a) appropriate pre-processing of the text collection; (b) adequate selection of model parameters, including the number of…
Community detection in civil society online networks
Community detection is a fundamental challenge in the analysis of online networks. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding how to accomplish this task in a manner that acknowledges domain-specific, substantive social theory. We develop a typology of what social phenomena communities of hyperlinked actors may signify—topical similarities, ideological associations, strategic alliances, and potential user traffic—and offer recommendations fo…
Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament
Daniel Maier examines concepts of happiness in Second Temple literature. By analyzing different traditions of understanding the good life in Ancient Judaism, he opens up fresh perspectives on concepts of happiness in the New Testament that have been largely overlooked in the scholarly study of this field so far.
Glück Im Antiken Judentum und Im Neuen Testament
Was ist »Glück« für die Autoren des Neuen Testaments und für ihre jüdischen Zeitgenossen innerhalb und außerhalb Palästinas? Dieser wichtigen, aber dennoch selten gestellten Frage geht Daniel Maier mittels der Analyse verschiedener Glückstraditionen auf den Grund. Dabei untersucht er in einem ersten Schritt sowohl unterschiedliche Darstellungen der jüdischen Geschichte (z. B. Jubiläenbuch, Flavius Josephus) als auch philosophische Überlegungen (z…
Relational Communication Spaces
Digital communication technologies, social web platforms, and mobile communication have fundamentally altered the way we communicate publicly. They have also changed our perception of space, thus making a re-calibration of a spatial perspective on public communication necessary. We argue that such a new perspective must consider the relational logic of public communication, which stands in stark contrast to the plain territorial notion of space c…
Machine Translation Vs. Multilingual Dictionaries Assessing Two Strategies for the Topic Modeling of Multilingual Text Collections
The goal of this paper is to evaluate two methods for the topic modeling of multilingual document collections: (1) machine translation (MT), and (2) the coding of semantic concepts using a multilingual dictionary (MD) prior to topic modeling. We empirically assess the consequences of these approaches based on both a quantitative comparison of models and a qualitative validation of each method’s potentials and weaknesses. Our case study uses two t…
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media
While scholarly attention has been devoted to social media’s potential mobilizing function, they may also contribute to demobilization discourses: social communication actively promoting nonvoting. This paper examines discourses around mobilization vs. demobilization in the context of the municipal elections in Jerusalem. As the sweeping majority of East Jerusalem Palestinians have continuously been boycotting Jerusalem’s municipal elections, thi…
Translocal networked public spheres
In this study, we theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate translocal spatial arrangements of networked public spheres on social media. In digital communication networks, actors easily connect with others globally, crossing the borders of cities, nations and languages. However, the spatial notions evoked in public sphere research to date remain largely territorial. We propose a theoretical framework drawing on Löw’s sociology of sp…
Toward Mainstreaming of Feminist (Counter)Publics? The Networked Structure of Feminist Activism on Twitter
This study investigates the roles of feminist actors in the Twitter discourse about sexualized violence that came up during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in October 2018. We theorize the discourse from the perspective of feminist counterpublics because it helps in understanding the extant power relations in public debate that are also manifest in digital networks. In this empirical study, we reconstruct the T…
Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 works) · Hyperlink (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Data science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)