Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft

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Vihang Jumle is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies since September 2023. He researches algorithmic biases in search engines platforms and social media discourses.

Vihang graduated with a master's degree in public policy from the Hertie School, Berlin in 2023 and a bachelor's degree in information technology from Mumbai University in 2019. He was previously with a boutique law firm focused on tech-policy, World Wide Fund for Nature, and then the University of Freiburg. He also briefly co-led the 'Social media networks and (dis)information research group' at Kings College London in 2023.

His research interest is in political communication in the age of new media and exploring it using a multi-methods approach.

Twitter: @vihangjumle

Publications

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Conferences

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  • “Finding frames with BERT: A transformer-based approach to generic news frame detection” (29 November 2024) in Panel Methods at Austrian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria.

  • “Imagined communities, cricket and social media” (13 August 2024) in Panel Reconsidering the nation: Theoretical perspective on political culture(s) at European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Ireland

  • “Holocaust narratives on Twitter: A description of themes and deliberation over methods” (17 July 2024) with Mykola Makhortykh at the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, The Netherlands

  • "Evolving Political Communication on Social Media" (02 September 2023) at American Political Science Association Annual Conference 2023, Los Angeles, USA.
     
  • “Legitimacy-making for the twitterati, populist-playing for the aam-aadmi: An inter-medium analysis of Modi's addresses (2010-2021)” (31 August 2021) at The broken mirror: Making sense of Indian politics on Twitter, an Inter-medium perspective by Centre de Sciences Humaines and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India.
     
  • “Communication technology, propaganda & the concomitant implications on belonging: The case of 2020-21 farmer protests in India” (30 June 2021) in Panel Exploring the Creation and Legitimisation of Public Narratives at King’s India Institute Graduate Conference 2021 themed Understanding Contemporary South Asia Belonging, Functioning, Renegotiating, UK.

Research interests

  • Political Communication
  • New Media
  • Public Opinion
  • Social Media Networks
  • Algorithms