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Vita

Lukas Birkenmaier is a research associate and doctoral student at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim. From 2015-2019, he completed his Bachelor's degree (B.A.) in Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Konstanz with stays in Maastricht (Netherlands) and Berlin. He then earned a Master's degree (M.A.) in Political and Administrative Sciences with a specialization in Public Administration and Management. At the same time, he completed a Master's degree (M.Sc.) in Big Data and Digital Futures at the University of Warwick (UK), which he graduated with distinction in 2021
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Publications

Publication

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Journal article

Fröhling, Leon, Lukas Birkenmaier, and Jessica Daikeler. 2023. "Garbage in - Garbage out? : Datenqualität im Umgang mit digitalen Verhaltensdaten." Easy social sciences 2023 (68): 21-31. doi: https://doi.org/10.15464/easy.2023.03.

Birkenmaier, Lukas, Clemens Lechner, and Claudia Wagner. 2023. "The search for solid ground in text as data: A systematic review and practical recommendations for validation." Communication Methods and Measures online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2285765.

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Chapter in an edited book

Birkenmaier, Lukas, Stefan Haußner, and Michael Kaeding. 2023. "Die unbeachtete Wahlrevolution: Analyse der Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2021." In Die Bundestagswahl 2021. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung, edited by Karl-Rudolf Korte, Maximilian Schiffers, Arno Von Schuckmann, and Sandra Plümer, 189-205. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35754-2_30.

Birkenmaier, Lukas, Stefan Haußner, and Michael Kaeding. 2023. "Ungleiche Wahlbeteiligung in pandemischen Zeiten: Gibt es einen Corona-Effekt?" In Die Bundestagswahl 2021. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung, edited by Karl-Rudolf Korte, Maximilian Schiffers, Arno Von Schuckmann, and Sandra Plümer, 171-187. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35754-2_8.

Lecture

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Presentation at a conference

Birkenmaier, Lukas. 2022. "Measuring Parliament Polarization during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Comparison and Validation of Methods using Text-as-Data." 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 2022-09-28.