M. Saïd H. Unger
Research assistant in the Project HybriD
Department of Communication
Room E 222
Bispinghof 9-14
D-48143 Münster
Tel.: +49 251 83-24253
said.unger@uni-muenster.de
Consultation-hours
by individual arrangement via mail
Research Areas
- Disinformation
- Social Network Analysis
- Quantitative Content Analysis
- Science of Science
Short CV
Saïd Unger studied sociology and history in Jena before finishing hist master degree in sociology and social research at the University of Bremen with a thesis on "Why do We Publish Together? On the Relevancy of Topics for Academic Co-Authorship Networks in the Social Sciences."
From 2019 he was an assistant researcher in the BMBF funded project "Aufbruch, Abbruch oder Durchbruch? Einflussfaktoren auf wissenschaftliche Karriereverläufe in den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften (ABD)" at the University of Stuttgart. Since December 2021 he is an assistant researcher in the BMBF funded project "HybriD - Echtzeiterkennung von Desinformationskampagnen in Online-Medien"in the Team of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt.
Publications
- . (). Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour. In (Eds.), Research Handbook on Digital Sociology (pp. 278–291). Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906769.
- . (). Immunize the Public against Disinformation Campaigns: Developing a Framework for Analyzing the Macrosocial Effects of Prebunking Interventions. In (Eds.): Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) , pp. 2411–2420. Honolulu, HI, USA: Scholar Space.
- . (). Benefits and detriments of interdisciplinarity on early career scientists’ performance. An author-level approach for U.S. physicists and psychologists. PloS one, 17(6), 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269991.
- . (). Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015. Scientometrics, 126(12), 9699–9731. doi: 10.1007/s11192-021-04069-9.
Talks
- Klapproth, Johanna; Pohl, Janina; Unger, Saïd; Stampe, Lucas; Boberg, Svenja; Grimme, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Breaking Boundaries: Cross-Platform Analysis of User and Information Dynamics in the Case of German Climate Change Discussion’. 5th Symposium on Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, Amsterdam, .
- Boberg, Svenja; Unger, Saïd; Boesch, Marcus; Klapproth, Johanna; Stöcker, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Hijacking #Pride: How right-wing actors in Germany tried to piggyback on the pride-movement to spread patriotic and anti-queer narratives on TikTok ’. 5th Symposium on Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, Amsterdam, .
- Unger, Saïd; Klapproth, Johanna; Pohl, Janina; Boberg, Svenja; Grimme, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Resisting Interventions: An agent based model of the effect of tie-dissolution on the diffusion of disinformation and prebunking interventions’. 5th Symposium on Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, Amsterdam, .
- Unger, Saïd; Klapproth, Johanna; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt, Thorsten (): „Alternative news, alternative experts? A topic model based comparison of epistemic authority between journalism and the Querdenken counter publics on Telegram.“ Jahrestagung der Fachgruppen Wissenschaftskommunikation und Journalistik/Journalismusforschung der DGPuK 2023, Passau, .
- Unger, Saïd; Wu, Shangyuan; Quandt, Thorsten (): „"Alternative Media" as mainstream A longitudinal analysis of an evolving concept across time and space“. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppen Wissenschaftskommunikation und Journalistik/Journalismusforschung der DGPuK 2023, Passau, .
- Unger, Saïd; Boberg, Svenja; Klapproth, Johanna; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘(Re)constructing Science – (Pseudo-)Science narratives in journalism and counter publics’. Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, .
- Unger, Saïd; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘(Re)constructing Science - (Pseudo-)Science narratives in journalism and counterpublics’. Future of Journalism Conference (Cardiff University), Cardiff, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Unger, Saïd; Svenja Boberg; Thorsten Quandt (): ‘Crisis coverage in journalism and counterpublics: Analyzing the shift of climate change narratives in polarized news flows’. Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, .
- Boberg, Svenja; Klapproth, Johanna; Unger, Saïd; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Crisis journalism as a pawn in the disinformation war? An automated content analysis of news media coverage on the Russian Invasion and its discussion in counterpublics’. Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Boberg, Svenja; Unger, Saïd; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Attacked by Disinformation – Threat Perception and Coping Strategies towards Disinformation Campaigns by Political Elites in Germany’. 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Toronto, .
- Unger, Saïd; Klapproth, Johanna; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Tool Demo: topiconR - A tool for extracting characteristic words and documents from topicmodels and labeling them.’ 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) (International Communication Association), Toronto, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Unger, Saïd; Pohl, Janina; Boberg, Svenja; Grimme, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Countering Disinformation Campaigns: Analyzing Information Diffusion and Macrosocial Effects of Temporally Dynamic and Platform-Specific Intervention Strategies’. 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Toronto, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Boberg, Svenja; Unger, Saïd; Quandt, Thorsten (): „Demokratische Destabilisierung durch Desinformation? Eine Analyse der Bedrohungswahrnehmung und Bewältigungsstrategien politischer Eliten in Deutschland“. 68. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Bremen, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Unger, Saïd; Pohl, Janina; Boberg, Svenja; Grimme, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Immunize the Public against Disinformation Campaigns: Developing a Framework for Analyzing Macrosocial Effects of Prebunking Interventions’. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, .
- Klapproth, Johanna; Boberg, Svenja; Unger, Saïd; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Targeted as counterpart? Analyzing actor constellations in alternative news media Facebook Posts’. 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhus, .
- Unger, Saïd; Boberg, Svenja; Klapproth, Johanna; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘Between information laundering and emotionalization: Analyzing the sharing and embedding of alternative and mainstream news media articles in counter public telegram channels’. 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhus, .
- Boberg, Svenja; Klapproth, Johanna; Unger, Saïd; Quandt, Thorsten (): ‘The Alternative Media Repertoire: An Analysis of Shared Alternative and Mainstream Media Content in Counterpublic Telegram Channels’. International Conference of the Research Association NRW, Bonn, .
- Quandt, Thorsten; Boberg, Svenja; Unger, Saïd; Klapproth, Johanna (): ‘Scenarios of dark participation in online counter publics: Comparing anti-Corona movements on Telegram and Twitter’. Media and Publics, Roskilde, .
- Unger, Saïd; (): „Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Koautorschaft“. Quantitative Wissenschaftsforschung und Computational Social Science, Online, .