Johannes B Gruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes B Gruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gruber |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBER J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9177-1772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can 20 Years of Twitter Be Preserved
As Twitter – now rebranded as X – celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2026, the platform has established itself as a long-standing component of many people’s everyday and professional lives. Through its lens, we have witnessed contemporary events unfold in real time: elections and political upheavals, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, social movements, and cultural moments. Twitter became a space where society’s perspectives on an ex…
Datcha—Introducing a Tool to Track Data Changes and Measure (In)Consistency in Mobile Platform Data
Mobile online platform data are inherently dynamic and often ephemeral: content can be deleted, added, or edited over time. Because mobile communication research relies heavily on such platform-derived data, systematic (non-random) changes can create serious data-quality and reproducibility problems. To address this, we developed Datcha, an application that quantifies dataset consistency using standardized indicators. Datcha additionally supports…
Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research
The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview of common LLM use cases in the field, including text analysis, synthetic data generation, and experiments. We argue that while these tools can be appealing, they often introduce serious epistemic, environ-mental, and infrastructural trade-offs that are …
The tension between connective action and platformisation
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Troublemakers in the Streets? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Protests in the UK 1992–2017
Research indicates that when mainstream news media report about demonstrations, protesters often face delegitimizing coverage. This phenomenon, known as the “(journalistic) protest paradigm,” is thought to be a default mindset that leads journalists to emphasize the method of protesters over their message. However, empirical work has so far limited itself to specific protest movements or events and only covers brief periods. This study first iden…
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
Troublemakers in the Streets? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Protests in the UK 1992–2017
Research indicates that when mainstream news media report about demonstrations, protesters often face delegitimizing coverage. This phenomenon, known as the “(journalistic) protest paradigm,” is thought to be a default mindset that leads journalists to emphasize the method of protesters over their message. However, empirical work has so far limited itself to specific protest movements or events and only covers brief periods. This study first iden…
The tension between connective action and platformisation
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
Troublemakers in the Streets? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Protests in the UK 1992–2017
Research indicates that when mainstream news media report about demonstrations, protesters often face delegitimizing coverage. This phenomenon, known as the “(journalistic) protest paradigm,” is thought to be a default mindset that leads journalists to emphasize the method of protesters over their message. However, empirical work has so far limited itself to specific protest movements or events and only covers brief periods. This study first iden…
The tension between connective action and platformisation
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Can 20 Years of Twitter Be Preserved
As Twitter – now rebranded as X – celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2026, the platform has established itself as a long-standing component of many people’s everyday and professional lives. Through its lens, we have witnessed contemporary events unfold in real time: elections and political upheavals, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, social movements, and cultural moments. Twitter became a space where society’s perspectives on an ex…
Datcha—Introducing a Tool to Track Data Changes and Measure (In)Consistency in Mobile Platform Data
Mobile online platform data are inherently dynamic and often ephemeral: content can be deleted, added, or edited over time. Because mobile communication research relies heavily on such platform-derived data, systematic (non-random) changes can create serious data-quality and reproducibility problems. To address this, we developed Datcha, an application that quantifies dataset consistency using standardized indicators. Datcha additionally supports…
Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research
The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview of common LLM use cases in the field, including text analysis, synthetic data generation, and experiments. We argue that while these tools can be appealing, they often introduce serious epistemic, environ-mental, and infrastructural trade-offs that are …
Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Conversation (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)