Matthias Hoffmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Hoffmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6480-3679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest
This paper investigates the interconnection between electoral and non-electoral politics. Through a unique integration of social media and nationally representative survey data, we examine how political parties in Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom evaluate episodes of street protest and how these evaluations relate to their voters’ participation in such protests. Our analysis shows that all political parties, regardless of type or ideology…
Protest as a relational field: An analysis of brokerage positions within and across contentious episodes and the individuals occupying them
This paper analyses participation in multiple protest episodes to explore the potential for people to broker relations between same-issue and different-issue episodes. Through an analysis of original survey data from six European countries, we map two-mode networks of individuals and protest episodes in each country to identify protesters in two brokerage positions: coordinators that can broker relations via same-issue contentious episodes and bo…
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation
In this article, we contribute to the analysis of protest participation on a gradient from non- to actual participation. Using survey data from six European countries, we take the analysis beyond a binary differentiation between participants and non-participants. We evidence a participation gradient underpinned by a combination of social and political variables and separate patterns that allow for distinctions between non-, potential, and actual …
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as "alternatives" to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and social media channels, opposition to climate change mitigation has emerged as a central cross-cutting issue. Despite the prominence of these trends, we still know relatively little about the hierarchies that govern these communicative ties. This study draw…
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: An Analysis of the in-Person, Online and Pivoting Styles
Engaging with long-standing debates on the crisis of democracy, manifested as a downturn in civic involvement, this paper scrutinises the evolving landscape of protest participation. First delineating three distinct protest participation styles – in-person, online and what we conceive of as a pivoting style – we identify individual characteristics among protesters that are associated with each style and consider how different obstacles to partici…
Fields of contention as a prism: Toward a Nuanced Role of Parties and Civil Society Actors in Protest Interactions
By adopting a theory-oriented case study approach, this article complements recent debates in political sociology on movement-party interactions, parties and protest, and ‘movement parties’ by proposing a relational perspective to the study of fields of contention. We explore how organizational type, as a political party or civil society organization, and political orientation on the left-to-right spectrum affect actors’ roles in local fields of …
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research
In this special issue, the authors theoretically, methodologically, and empirically address challenges and opportunities associated with comparative social media analysis in political contention. Actors from civil society, media, and institutional politics use social media to coordinate, mobilise, and communicate, turning public online communication into an arena of conflict that offers researchers valuable windows of observation. In this introdu…
Images of protest in movement parties’ social media communication
This research investigates the strategic use of protest imagery on social media by movement parties, bridging the gap between protest and institutional politics. We apply a mixed-methods analysis of 9584 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram image posts by seven movement parties between 2015 and 2021. We find that protest images frequently serve to amplify movement grievances. Yet, parties’ involvement with contentious protest forms undergoes temporal…
Relational Sediments in the Backwash of Protest Waves: Exploring Network Consequences of Collective Action
This article addresses the puzzling relational void in the analysis of collective action consequences by exploring how protest waves affect local network structures in two German towns. We compare three periods of time: a preprotest wave latency period, a protest wave period, and a postwave latency period, as defined in relation to contentious collective action around the refugee reception crisis in 2015. Adopting a field perspective, our analysi…
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: Positioning and trajectories in the polity arena
This research explores interactions between traditional parties and movement parties on social media. The longitudinal analysis (2010–2021) is based on data from eighteen parties’ official social media accounts in six European countries. Conceptually bridging cycles of contention, social movement lifecycles, and party lifespans, this research identifies regularities in referencing patterns between traditional party families; and by adding a tempo…
Hijacking MeToo: Transnational dynamics and networked frame contestation on the far right in the case of the ‘120 decibels' campaign
This paper presents a case study of a digitally enabled mode of transnationally networked framing by far-right actors. We analyze the reach and strategic aims of the ‘120 decibels’ campaign, launched by members of the Austrian Identitarian Movement via social media in early 2018 in an attempt to latch onto the prominence of the MeToo hashtag (#MeToo). We argue that this constituted a form of discursive ‘hijacking,’ marked by a narrowing of the sc…
Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis
This paper presents a critical discussion of the processing, reliability and implications of free big data repositories. We argue that big data is not only the starting point of scientific analyses but also the outcome of a long string of invisible or semi-visible tasks, often masked by the fetish of size that supposedly lends validity to big data. We unpack these notions by illustrating the process of extracting protest event data from the Globa…
Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture
Current research on visual media and the far right creates two expectations: that memes play an increasingly salient role in the far right’s digital visual culture, and that the visual and participatory dimensions of internet culture facilitate greater transnationality. We explore these expectations with a comparative research design, situating memes in relation to other genres of visual content and across different country contexts. Taking a mix…
Here, There and Everywhere”: Classifying Location Information in Social Media Data - Possibilities and Limitations
This paper provides an overview of possibilities to localize acts of communication and their agents based on digital traces and scrutinizes their advantages and disadvantages. It shows, (i) what types of geographic information exist in social media data and to what extent they are available to researchers, (ii) which approaches exist to classify locations and (iii) what the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches are. Introducing a…
Sterben? Am liebsten plötzlich und unerwartet“: Die Angst Vor Dem Sozialen Sterben
The Destroyer and the Lamb: The Relationship between Angelomorphic and Lamb Christology in the Book of Revelation
Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann identifies an angelomorphic portrait of Christ in certain passages of Revelation and provides possible reasons for the inclusion of an angelomorphic Christology: Angelomorphic Christology is not regarded as an isolated christological concept. In turn, the author compares angelomorphic Christology with the prominent Lamb Christology of Revelation. A comparison of these concepts reveals that both Lamb and angelomorphic Ch…
Schleiermacher: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Register zur I. Abteilung
The index volume provides an alphabetical and a chronological index of the Schleiermacher texts contained in the first section of the complete critical edition; further, it contains an index of names or persons (including biblical and mythological figures), an index of biblical passages as well as an index of place-names. It also includes a bibliography of literature quoted by Schleiermacher and the editors' secondary literature. Schleiermacher's…
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as "alternatives" to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and social media channels, opposition to climate change mitigation has emerged as a central cross-cutting issue. Despite the prominence of these trends, we still know relatively little about the hierarchies that govern these communicative ties. This study draw…
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation
In this article, we contribute to the analysis of protest participation on a gradient from non- to actual participation. Using survey data from six European countries, we take the analysis beyond a binary differentiation between participants and non-participants. We evidence a participation gradient underpinned by a combination of social and political variables and separate patterns that allow for distinctions between non-, potential, and actual …
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: An Analysis of the in-Person, Online and Pivoting Styles
Engaging with long-standing debates on the crisis of democracy, manifested as a downturn in civic involvement, this paper scrutinises the evolving landscape of protest participation. First delineating three distinct protest participation styles – in-person, online and what we conceive of as a pivoting style – we identify individual characteristics among protesters that are associated with each style and consider how different obstacles to partici…
Fields of contention as a prism: Toward a Nuanced Role of Parties and Civil Society Actors in Protest Interactions
By adopting a theory-oriented case study approach, this article complements recent debates in political sociology on movement-party interactions, parties and protest, and ‘movement parties’ by proposing a relational perspective to the study of fields of contention. We explore how organizational type, as a political party or civil society organization, and political orientation on the left-to-right spectrum affect actors’ roles in local fields of …
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research
In this special issue, the authors theoretically, methodologically, and empirically address challenges and opportunities associated with comparative social media analysis in political contention. Actors from civil society, media, and institutional politics use social media to coordinate, mobilise, and communicate, turning public online communication into an arena of conflict that offers researchers valuable windows of observation. In this introdu…
Images of protest in movement parties’ social media communication
This research investigates the strategic use of protest imagery on social media by movement parties, bridging the gap between protest and institutional politics. We apply a mixed-methods analysis of 9584 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram image posts by seven movement parties between 2015 and 2021. We find that protest images frequently serve to amplify movement grievances. Yet, parties’ involvement with contentious protest forms undergoes temporal…
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: Positioning and trajectories in the polity arena
This research explores interactions between traditional parties and movement parties on social media. The longitudinal analysis (2010–2021) is based on data from eighteen parties’ official social media accounts in six European countries. Conceptually bridging cycles of contention, social movement lifecycles, and party lifespans, this research identifies regularities in referencing patterns between traditional party families; and by adding a tempo…
Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis
This paper presents a critical discussion of the processing, reliability and implications of free big data repositories. We argue that big data is not only the starting point of scientific analyses but also the outcome of a long string of invisible or semi-visible tasks, often masked by the fetish of size that supposedly lends validity to big data. We unpack these notions by illustrating the process of extracting protest event data from the Globa…
Here, There and Everywhere”: Classifying Location Information in Social Media Data - Possibilities and Limitations
This paper provides an overview of possibilities to localize acts of communication and their agents based on digital traces and scrutinizes their advantages and disadvantages. It shows, (i) what types of geographic information exist in social media data and to what extent they are available to researchers, (ii) which approaches exist to classify locations and (iii) what the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches are. Introducing a…
Schleiermacher: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Register zur I. Abteilung
The index volume provides an alphabetical and a chronological index of the Schleiermacher texts contained in the first section of the complete critical edition; further, it contains an index of names or persons (including biblical and mythological figures), an index of biblical passages as well as an index of place-names. It also includes a bibliography of literature quoted by Schleiermacher and the editors' secondary literature. Schleiermacher's…
The Destroyer and the Lamb: The Relationship between Angelomorphic and Lamb Christology in the Book of Revelation
Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann identifies an angelomorphic portrait of Christ in certain passages of Revelation and provides possible reasons for the inclusion of an angelomorphic Christology: Angelomorphic Christology is not regarded as an isolated christological concept. In turn, the author compares angelomorphic Christology with the prominent Lamb Christology of Revelation. A comparison of these concepts reveals that both Lamb and angelomorphic Ch…
Sterben? Am liebsten plötzlich und unerwartet“: Die Angst Vor Dem Sozialen Sterben
Here, There and Everywhere”: Classifying Location Information in Social Media Data - Possibilities and Limitations
This paper provides an overview of possibilities to localize acts of communication and their agents based on digital traces and scrutinizes their advantages and disadvantages. It shows, (i) what types of geographic information exist in social media data and to what extent they are available to researchers, (ii) which approaches exist to classify locations and (iii) what the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches are. Introducing a…
Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture
Current research on visual media and the far right creates two expectations: that memes play an increasingly salient role in the far right’s digital visual culture, and that the visual and participatory dimensions of internet culture facilitate greater transnationality. We explore these expectations with a comparative research design, situating memes in relation to other genres of visual content and across different country contexts. Taking a mix…
Hijacking MeToo: Transnational dynamics and networked frame contestation on the far right in the case of the ‘120 decibels' campaign
This paper presents a case study of a digitally enabled mode of transnationally networked framing by far-right actors. We analyze the reach and strategic aims of the ‘120 decibels’ campaign, launched by members of the Austrian Identitarian Movement via social media in early 2018 in an attempt to latch onto the prominence of the MeToo hashtag (#MeToo). We argue that this constituted a form of discursive ‘hijacking,’ marked by a narrowing of the sc…
Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis
This paper presents a critical discussion of the processing, reliability and implications of free big data repositories. We argue that big data is not only the starting point of scientific analyses but also the outcome of a long string of invisible or semi-visible tasks, often masked by the fetish of size that supposedly lends validity to big data. We unpack these notions by illustrating the process of extracting protest event data from the Globa…
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: Positioning and trajectories in the polity arena
This research explores interactions between traditional parties and movement parties on social media. The longitudinal analysis (2010–2021) is based on data from eighteen parties’ official social media accounts in six European countries. Conceptually bridging cycles of contention, social movement lifecycles, and party lifespans, this research identifies regularities in referencing patterns between traditional party families; and by adding a tempo…
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research
In this special issue, the authors theoretically, methodologically, and empirically address challenges and opportunities associated with comparative social media analysis in political contention. Actors from civil society, media, and institutional politics use social media to coordinate, mobilise, and communicate, turning public online communication into an arena of conflict that offers researchers valuable windows of observation. In this introdu…
Images of protest in movement parties’ social media communication
This research investigates the strategic use of protest imagery on social media by movement parties, bridging the gap between protest and institutional politics. We apply a mixed-methods analysis of 9584 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram image posts by seven movement parties between 2015 and 2021. We find that protest images frequently serve to amplify movement grievances. Yet, parties’ involvement with contentious protest forms undergoes temporal…
Relational Sediments in the Backwash of Protest Waves: Exploring Network Consequences of Collective Action
This article addresses the puzzling relational void in the analysis of collective action consequences by exploring how protest waves affect local network structures in two German towns. We compare three periods of time: a preprotest wave latency period, a protest wave period, and a postwave latency period, as defined in relation to contentious collective action around the refugee reception crisis in 2015. Adopting a field perspective, our analysi…
Protest as a relational field: An analysis of brokerage positions within and across contentious episodes and the individuals occupying them
This paper analyses participation in multiple protest episodes to explore the potential for people to broker relations between same-issue and different-issue episodes. Through an analysis of original survey data from six European countries, we map two-mode networks of individuals and protest episodes in each country to identify protesters in two brokerage positions: coordinators that can broker relations via same-issue contentious episodes and bo…
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation
In this article, we contribute to the analysis of protest participation on a gradient from non- to actual participation. Using survey data from six European countries, we take the analysis beyond a binary differentiation between participants and non-participants. We evidence a participation gradient underpinned by a combination of social and political variables and separate patterns that allow for distinctions between non-, potential, and actual …
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as "alternatives" to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and social media channels, opposition to climate change mitigation has emerged as a central cross-cutting issue. Despite the prominence of these trends, we still know relatively little about the hierarchies that govern these communicative ties. This study draw…
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: An Analysis of the in-Person, Online and Pivoting Styles
Engaging with long-standing debates on the crisis of democracy, manifested as a downturn in civic involvement, this paper scrutinises the evolving landscape of protest participation. First delineating three distinct protest participation styles – in-person, online and what we conceive of as a pivoting style – we identify individual characteristics among protesters that are associated with each style and consider how different obstacles to partici…
Fields of contention as a prism: Toward a Nuanced Role of Parties and Civil Society Actors in Protest Interactions
By adopting a theory-oriented case study approach, this article complements recent debates in political sociology on movement-party interactions, parties and protest, and ‘movement parties’ by proposing a relational perspective to the study of fields of contention. We explore how organizational type, as a political party or civil society organization, and political orientation on the left-to-right spectrum affect actors’ roles in local fields of …
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest
This paper investigates the interconnection between electoral and non-electoral politics. Through a unique integration of social media and nationally representative survey data, we examine how political parties in Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom evaluate episodes of street protest and how these evaluations relate to their voters’ participation in such protests. Our analysis shows that all political parties, regardless of type or ideology…
Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (5 works)