Friday, 10:30–12:00 · M209 Seminar Room
Panel: Social identity, polarisation, and culture war online
Marvin Stecker; Fabienne Lind; Hajo Boomgaarden; Markus Wagner
Dimensionality and polarisation of social identities by political parties and citizen

Friday, 13:00–14:30 · 118 Seminar Room
Panel: Elite agenda-setting, message alignment, and issue engagement
Jana Bernhard-Harrer
If you don’t like it, change the topic! Measuring political influence on public discourse through word embeddings

Saturday, 09:30–11:00 · 109 Seminar Room
Panel: Climate change communication on social media platforms
Veronika Ebner; Fabienne Lind; Hajo Boomgaarden
Hope for the climate? Constructive elements in environmental journalism on TikTok and their influence on social media engagement

Saturday, 09:30–11:00 · M209 Seminar Room
Panel: Partisan polarisation in media, science, and parliamentary speech
Daisuke Nakamura; Petro Tolochko; Desirée Schmuck
Divisive power of disparagement humor? Exploring partisan social media influencers and sentiment polarization in TikTok comments 

Saturday, 11:30–13:00· 109 Seminar Room
Panel: Parliamentary and online climate discourse across countries
Marvin Stecker; Jana Bernhard-Harrer
Two for the price of free: We have annotation software and a multilingual climate reporting dataset for you

Saturday, 16:00–17:30 · Lecture Theatre 2
Panel: Citizens, AI information, and political representation
Fabienne Lind; Veronika Ebner; Sonja Blum; Nora Habelitz
Bridging political and spatial divides? Economic frames and emotions in TikTok debates on energy and mobility transformation

Saturday, 16:00–17:30 · M218 Seminar Room
Panel: Platform governance, data access, and digital regulation
Huan Lai
Exploring Chinese netizens’ sentiment towards disclosing IP locations: A case study of the Zhihu platform

Find the full program here: https://www.comptextconference.org/8th-annual-conference-2026/