Projects & Publications

2024

Balluff, P., Eberl, J.-M., Oberhänsli, S. J., Bernhard-Harrer, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Fahr, A., & Huber, M. (2024). The Austrian Political Advertisement Scandal: Patterns of “Journalism for Sale”. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241285672

Tolochko, P., Balluff, P., Bernhard, J., Galyga, S., Lebernegg, N. S., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024). What’s in a name? The effect of named entities on topic modelling interpretability. Communication Methods and Measures, 18(4), 349–370. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2024.2302120

Bernhard, J., & Russmann, U. (2024). Blurring Boundaries: A Longitudinal Analysis of Skills Required in Journalism, PR, and Marketing Job Ads. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(3), 612-636. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231181544

Tolochko, P., Bernhard, J., Kakavand, A., Kulichkina, A., & Boomgaarden, H. (2024, September 25). Digital skills formation in peer networks: Exploring advice giving and taking in classrooms. Presented at ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Bernhard, J., Ashour, R., Tolochko, P., Eberl, J.-M., & Boomgaarden, H. (2024, June 21). Beyond standardization: A comprehensive review of topic modeling for computational communication research. Presented at ICA 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.

Bernhard-Harrer, J., & Pfaff, K. (2024, May 4). Analysing open-ended survey responses: A comparison of automated approaches. Presented at COMPTEXT 2024, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2023

Kritzinger, S., Pfaff, K., Barta, J., Bernhard, J., Boomgaarden, H., Eder, A., Forgó, N., Paspalj, F., Plant, C., Prainsack, B., Prandner, D., Rittel, S., Teuffenbach, M., & Tschiatschek, S. (2023). Digitize! – Computational Social Science in der digitalen und sozialen Transformation. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 18(Sonderheft Forschung), 173–195. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/SH-F/11  

Bernhard, J., Teuffenbach, M & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). Topic Model Validation Methods and their Impact on Model Selection and Evaluation. Computational Communication Review, 5(1), S. 1- 20 https://doi.org/10.5117/ CCR2023.1.13.BERN 

Bernhard, J., & Russmann, U. (2023a). Digitalization in public relations—Changing competences: A longitudinal analysis of skills required in PR job ads. Public Relations Review, 49(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102283 

Bernhard, J., & Pfaff, K. (2023, September 22). Analysing open-ended survey responses: A comparison of automated approaches. Presented at WAPOR 2023, Salzburg, Austria.

Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023, September 8). Comparing political agendas on social media: Government vs. opposition. Presented at ECPR 2023, Prague, Czechia.

Bernhard, J., Tolochko, P., & Eberl, M.-J. (2023, May 29). Whose words are these? Automating media bias measurement. Presented at ICA 2023, Toronto, Canada.

2022

Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022, October 19–22). Measuring party agendas: A neural topic modeling approach. Presented at ECREA 2022, Aarhus, Denmark.

Bernhard, J., Ashour, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022, October 5–7). Towards validity standards of topic models. Presented at Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden der DGPuK, Munich, Germany.

Bernhard, J., Teuffenbach, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022, May 23–30). Evaluation & validation of topic modeling methods. Presented at ICA 2022, Paris, France.

Bernhard, J., Tolochko, P., & Eberl, M.-J. (2022, May 5–7). Whose words are these? Measuring media bias using semantic spaces. Presented at COMPTEXT 2022, Dublin, Ireland.

2021

Kluknavská, A., Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021). Claiming the crisis: Mediated public debates about the refugee crisis in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(1), 241-263. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez022 

Bernhard, J., & Russmann, U. (2021, October 7–9). Competences in change: A longitudinal analysis of skills required in PR job ads. Presented at EUPRERA 2021, Pamplona, Spain.

until 2020 

Eisele, O., Mogollón, L. D., Bernhard, J. (2017) "Organised Transnational Solidarity in Germany – Exploring Similarities and Differences across Three Different Sectors“ In: Integrated Report on Collective forms of solidarity at times of crisis (WP4), p. 64- 87 (available at: https://transsol.eu/files/2017/12/WP4-Integrated-reportfinal.pdf) 

Bernhard, J. (2019, September 4–7). Making human rights "cool" again: How to communicate discrimination to adolescents. Presented at ECPR 2019, Wrocław, Poland.

Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017, September 6–9). (Non-)populism in Austria: An analysis of the contagiousness of populism in the Austrian presidential elections 2016. Presented at ECPR 2017, Oslo, Norway.

Kluknavská, A., Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016, September 7–10). Enemies at the borders: Political claims-making on refugees during migration crisis in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Presented at ECPR 2016, Prague, Czechia.