Publications

Articles

Milzner, M., Thiele, D., & Gong, B. (2025). Just the tip of the iceberg? State of the art of coordinated social media manipulation research. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2596873

Thiele, D., Milzner, M., Heft, A., Gong, B., & Pfetsch, B. (2025). Attributing coordinated social media manipulation: A theoretical model and typology. New Media & Society, 14614448251350100. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251350100

Thiele, D. (2024). How COVID-19 and the news shaped populism in Facebook comments in seven European countries. A computational analysis. Computational Communication Research, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2024.1.2.THIE

Thiele, D., Pajnik, M., Sauer, B., & Šori, I. (2024). Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(2), 176–196. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22026.thi

Thiele, D. (2022). Pandemic populism? How COVID-19 triggered populist Facebook user comments in Germany and Austria. Politics and Governance, 10(1), 185–196. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v10i1.4712

Thiele, D., & Turnšek, T. (2022). How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages. Media and Communication, 10(4), 141–154. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5690

Thiele, D., Sauer, B., & Penz, O. (2021). Right-wing populist affective governing. A frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration. Patterns of Prejudice, 55(5), 457–477. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.2014089

Presentations

Buehling, K., Pfetsch, B., Gong, B., Thiele, D., & Heft, A. (2025a). When they go low, we go high? Affective foundations and polarization on Facebook in European party systems and populist radical right parties [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2025). Coorsim. A tool for detecting and describing communities engaging in coordinated behavior on social media [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Buehling, K., Heft, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2025). Coordinated manipulation of user comments on YouTube: The case of the European Parliamentary Elections 2024 [Paper presentation].

Buehling, K., Pfetsch, B., Gong, B., Heft, A., & Thiele, D. (2025). Is there a firewall against the right? Mapping populist radical right parties’ position in national campaign communication on Facebook [Paper presentation].

Milzner, M., Thiele, D., & Gong, B. (2025). Just the tip of the iceberg? The state of the art of coordinated social media manipulation research [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Milzner, M., Heft, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2025). Manipulating climate change debates? Coordinated behavior on Twitter during COP 26 and 27 [Paper presentation].

Buehling, K., Pfetsch, B., Gong, B., Thiele, D., & Heft, A. (2025b). National cordons sanitaires and populist radical right parties’ positions during election campaigns [Paper presentation].

Gruber, J. B., Viehmann, C., Urman, A., Hase, V., Thiele, D., Lind, F., Triling, D., Touileb, S., Stolwijk, S., Gloc, R., Adamczewska, K., Loecherbach, F., Vesic, S., Hess, A., Erisen, C., Gugu, E., Ozturk, S. D., Tomašević, A., Beck, T., … Welbers, K. (2025). Textual feelings. A review of computational tools for measuring opinions in text [Paper presentation].

Milzner, M., Thiele, D., Lind, F., & Heft, A. (2025). Bridging languages and platforms. Building a keyword-based dictionary for comparative research on contentious issues [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., & Milzner, M. (2025). Detecting coordinated social media manipulation in the age of LLMs. Introducing and validating an embedding-based tool [Paper presentation].

Buehling, K., Pfetsch, B., Heft, A., Gong, B., & Thiele, D. (2025). Brandmauer gegen rechts? Negative Campaigning etablierter Parteien auf Facebook und ihr Umgang mit rechtpopulistischen Herausforderern. Ein Deutsch-Österreichischer Vergleich [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Milzner, M., Heft, A., Gong, B., & Pfetsch, B. (2024a). Attributing coordinated social media manipulation. A theoretical model and a typology [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., & Milzner, M. (2024). Suspiciously similar. An embedding approach to capturing multimodal coordinated behavior [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Milzner, M., Heft, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2024). Manipulating climate change debates? Coordinated behavior on Twitter during COP 26 and 27 [Paper presentation].

Milzner, M., Thiele, D., & Gong, B. (2024). Coordinated social media manipulation. State of the art [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Milzner, M., Heft, A., Gong, B., & Pfetsch, B. (2024b). 50 shades of astroturf and how to choose them: A theoretical model and review of coordinated social media manipulation [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2023a). Vox populi(st): Contexts and consequences of populism in user comments on news media Facebook pages [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2023b). Coordinated (in)authentic behaviour online: A systematic review and typology [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2023c). Do COVID-measures fuel populist user comments? A computational text analysis of Facebook pages from seven European countries [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2023d). Populist user comments, the pandemic and online publics. Insights from a computational text analysis in seven European countries [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022a). How right-wing populist comments affect online deliberation on news media Facebook pages [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022b). Poisoning online debates? How populist Facebook comments affect online deliberation in Austria and Slovenia [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022c). Contagious comments? How the pandemic has affected populist user comments in seven Western-European countries [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022d). "Don’t believe the media’s pandemic propaganda!!” How COVID-19 affected populist Facebook user comments in seven European countries [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022e). Drowning deliberation in a sea of hate? How right-wing populist Facebook comments affect online deliberation in Austria and Slovenia [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2022f). Populist user comments. Assessing their automated measurement and their impact on online deliberation. [Fellow talk].

Thiele, D. (2022g). Right-wing populist user comments on Facebook and online deliberation [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Pajnik, M., Sauer, B., & Šori, I. (2021). Borderless fear? How right-wing populism in Austria and Slovenia aligns in framing migration as security threat [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2021a). Partizipativer Populismus in Krisenzeiten. Populistische Nutzerkommentare auf Facebookseiten deutscher und österreichischer Massenmedien [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2021b). Pandemic populism? How COVID-19 triggered populist Facebook user comments in Germany and Austria in 2020 [Paper presentation].

Pajnik, M., Sauer, B., Iztok, Š., & Thiele, D. (2020). Right-wing populist affective governmentality. A comparative analysis of parliamentary debates on migration in Austria and Slovenia [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Sauer, B., & Penz, O. (2020a). Affecting citizens. Emotional right-wing populist discourses in Austrian parliamentary debates on migration [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D., Sauer, B., & Penz, O. (2020b). Affects in right-wing populist discourses: A frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates [Paper presentation].

Thiele, D. (2019). Emotional framing in right-wing populist communication on Twitter. A German dictionary-based measurement [Paper presentation].

Software

Thiele, D. (2026a). easieRnmt. https://github.com/thieled/easieRnmt

Thiele, D. (2026b). Sentiner. https://github.com/thieled/sentiner

Thiele, D. (2025a). Coorsim. https://github.com/thieled/coorsim/

Thiele, D. (2025b). Digimodhelpers. https://github.com/thieled/digimodhelpers

Gruber, J. B., & Thiele, D. (2024). Crowdtangler. https://github.com/JBGruber/crowdtangler

Thiele, D. (2024a). Coortweethelpers. https://github.com/thieled/coortweethelpers

Thiele, D. (2024b). Fleece. https://github.com/thieled/fleece

Thiele, D. (2024c). meteoR. https://github.com/thieled/meteoR

Thiele, D. (2023a). disquRs. https://github.com/thieled/disquRs

Thiele, D. (2023b). biathlonpredictoR. https://github.com/thieled/biathlonpredictoR

Thiele, D. (2022a). biathlonResults. https://github.com/thieled/biathlonResults

Thiele, D. (2022b). dictvectoR. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7079599