Five contributions from the DCID Lab at the DGPuK 2025 in Berlin

The DCID-Lab will be represented at the 70th Annual Conference of the DGPuK “Values” from March 19 to 21 in Berlin with five contributions by Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer, Jan Rau and Philipp Kessling. 

The 70th annual conference of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) will take place from March 19 to 21, 2025 at Freie Universität Berlin. Under the guiding theme of “Public spheres and their values”, the conference focused on the role of values such as freedom, justice, equality, security, solidarity and truth in social coexistence and public discourse. Current global challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic, geopolitical conflicts and the climate crisis underlined the need to reflect on and critically examine these values. Over four days, the conference will offer a diverse program with almost 200 lectures, panel discussions and workshops in which current research findings on the relevance, negotiation and implementation of values in (digital) public spheres will be discussed.

The contributions with the participation of the DCID Lab: 

Thursday, March 20, 2025

P13: Measuring values – methodological perspectives
Time: 20.03.2025: 14:00-15:30 – Location: 55-B

• 14:30 – 14:45: Classifying political news content with large language models and sentence transformers; Cornelius Puschmann

Friday, March 21, 2025

P19: Protest and counter-publics in discourse
Time: 21.03.2025: 10:30-12:00 – Location: 55-A

• 11:30 – 11:45: Fringe News Audience Fragmentation – An Audience Overlap Approach Combining Tracking and Survey Data to Investigate Audience Fragmentation in Alternative and Hyperpartisan News Use; Heidi Schulze, Lisa Merten, Helena Rauxloh, Cornelius Puschmann

P23: Public Discourses on Environment and Sustainability
Time: 21.03.2025: 15:30-16:30 – Location: 55-B

• 15:30 – 15:45: The missing piece in the puzzle? Examining the role of news exposure, climate importance and participation; Patrick Zerrer, Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Hendrik Meyer, Lisa Merten, Cornelius Puschmann

P33: Political communication in social media
Time: 21.03.2025: 17:00-18:00 – Location: 21-E

• 17:30 – 17:45: Telegram data infrastructure for research on platform dynamics and political communication; Philipp Kessling, Jan Rau, Felix V. Münch

P31: Individual predispositions for media use
Time: 21.03.2025: 17:00-18:00 – Location: 21-A

• 17:30 – 17:45: The News You Care About vs. The News You Select: Investigating Discrepancies Between Aspired and Actual News Use with Web Tracking Data; Lisa Merten, Juhi Kulshrestha, Helena Rauxloh, Cornelius Puschmann, Judith Möller, Patrick Zerrer