Nils Weidmann

Nils is professor of political science, co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality", and head of the "Communication, Networks and Contention" Research Group.

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Seeing is Deceiving? AI-Manipulated Images and Protest Size Estimates

This project examines the effect of AI-modified images on public perception by examining the effect of manipulated protest images on estimated crowd sizes.

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Protest Image Dataset

The Protest Image Dataset is a new data collection project that includes images from social media with an emphasis on political protests. The dataset contains, besides the images themselves, variables on location, time, as well as a hand-annotated protest variable.

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Transparent Two-level Classification Method for Images

We present a new method that makes the classification of images more transparent.

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Self-Portrayal of Leaders on Social Media

Social media platforms allow leaders to raise their profiles and directly communicate with citizens. The incentives for leaders to visually presenting themselves still differ.

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Wickedonna

Two activists reported in the Wickedonna blog about protests in China. They collected social media posts for over 74,000 protest events containing images of the protesters, security forces, banners and more. We will improve the prediction of protest in images by using the images from this blog.