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Münch, Dr. Felix Victor
Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
Big Data Analytics

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Felix Victor Münch is an interdisciplinary researcher in computational social science with a PhD from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Currently, he is Senior Researcher for Computational Social Sciences in the Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences Department (KTS) at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. He co-founded and lead the Social Media Observatory of the Research Institute Social Cohesion as a Postdoc Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg. With a B.Sc. in Physics (LMU, Munich, Germany), an M.A. in Journalism (LMU and German Journalist School, Munich, Germany) and work experience in online media brand communication as an online media concepter, user experience designer, and strategist, his main fields of interest are network science, natural language processing, big data, and public sphere theory.

Publications

Chapter in an edited book

Momeni, Fakhri, Felix Victor Münch, Chung-hong Chan, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan. 2025 (Forthcoming). "Session Report: Hands-On Session on the Methods Hub." In Proceedings of the 2nd MethodsNET conference, edited by Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Louvain-la-Neuve: Zenodo.

Other article

Börgmann, Hanna, Dominik Hammer, Jan Beyer, Jonas Ziock, Fiete Stegers, Philipp Kessling, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Destructive Discourses: The Digital Dissemination of Climate Misinformation and Disinformation – A Multi-Platform Investigation as part of the NOTORIOUS Project." Institute for Strategic Dialogue Germany. https://notorious.leibniz-hbi.de/forschung/destructive-discourses-the-digital-dissemination-of-climate-misinformation-and-disinformation/.

Börgmann, Hanna, Dominik Hammer, Jan Beyer, Jonas Ziock, Fiete Stegers, Philipp Kessling, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Destruktive Diskurse: Digitale Verbreitung von klimabezogener Mis- und Desinformation: Eine Multiplattformerhebung im Projekt NOTORIOUS." Institute for Strategic Dialogue Germany. https://reposit.haw-hamburg.de/handle/20.500.12738/17802.

Presentation at a conference

Münch, Felix Victor. 2026. "From Reputation Accumulation to Resonance Mining: Shifting Social Media Influence Mechanics in Times of Heteronomous Algorithmic Curation." The Impact of Social Media on Democracy: Final conference of the EU project "Social Media for Democracy (SoMe4Dem) - Understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship" , Harnack-Haus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2026-01-15. https://some4dem.eu/activities/event-series/the-impact-of-social-media-on-democracy.

Bleier, Arnim, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Demo of the GESIS Methods Hub." 2025 NFDI4DS Conference, Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS, Berlin, 2025-11-25.

Choucair, Tariq, Kateryna Kasianenko, Felix Victor Münch, Ehsan Dehghan, Axel Bruns, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. 2025. "Dynamic Practice Mapping: A Flexible and Temporal Approach to Analysing Communicative Patterns." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, 2025-07-24.

Kessling, Philipp, Felix Victor Münch, Mattes Ruckdeschel, and Gregor Wiedemann. 2025. "Semantic Similarity Networks and Explorable Hierarchical Topic Modeling in Large-Scale Cross-Platform Online Discourses Based on Community Detection." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, 2025-07-22.

Kessling, Philipp, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Telegram: Data Infrastructure for Researching Platform Dynamics." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, 2025-07-23.

Münch, Felix Victor, and Philipp Kessling. 2025. "Tik-Talk-Tok: Measuring Content Diffusion Within and Between Political Television Talk Shows and Public Speakers’ TikTok Channels During the German Federal Election 2025." AoIR Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2025, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, 2025-10-18.

Presentation not at a conference

Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Deny, Doubt, Delay, Attack: A Multi-Platform Investigation of the Dissemination of Climate Mis- and Disinformation in German Social Media." Joint Research Centre DISINFO Workshop, European Commission, Brussels, 2025-09-24.

Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Tik-Talk-Tok - Messung von Resonanzen zwischen politischen Fernseh-Talkshows und TikTok-Kanälen öffentlicher Sprecher während der Bundestagswahl 2025." Informationsräume im Umbruch: Desinformation, politische Influencer und mediale Strategien in Krisenzeiten, Zentrum Informationsarbeit Bundeswehr, Berlin, 2025-11-27.

Seminar

Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Computational Methods - Network Analysis and Visualisation for Computational Social Science with Python and Gephi [Master-Seminar]." Universität Bremen. Sommersemester 2025: 2 SWS.

Articles or interviews in non-scientific media

Rau, Jan, Philipp Kessling, Gregor Wiedemann, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Art. 40 DSA and research data access in the German federal election: a mixed experience at best." Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt/Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ/RISC) Blog, 2025-05-21. https://fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6040.

Event

Momeni, Fakhri, Felix Victor Münch, Chung-hong Chan, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan. 2025. "Hands-on Session on Methods Hub." 2nd MethodsNET Conference, Université catholique de Louvain, 2025-09-12 - 2025-09-01. https://github.com/taimoorkhan-nlp/MethodsHub-at-MethodsNet2025.

Münch, Felix Victor, Fakhri Momeni, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Chung-hong Chan. 2025. "Interactive Workshop: The Methods Hub." DGPuK Fachgruppentagung Methoden, Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Salzgitter, 2025-09-18.