Maximilian Overbeck

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research is situated at the ‎intersection of Political ‎Science, Communication, and ‎Computational Social Science, ‎with a special interest in political behavior, collective identities, media analysis, agenda setting, and religion.

I currently work as a post-doctoral researcher in the PROFECI project, developing its algorithmic strategy for tracing and studying the complexity of political projections within diverse multilingual text corpora.

 

Research Interests

 

  • Political Behavior
  • Computational Text Analysis
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Collective Identities
  • Media Analysis
  • Agenda Setting
  • Religion and Politics

 

 

Selected Publications (10-15)

 

Overbeck, M., Aharoni, T., Baden, C., Freedman, M., & Tenenboim Weinblatt, K. (2024, in press). Divining Elections: Religious Citizens’ Political Projections and Electoral Turnout in Israel and France. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

 

Overbeck, M., Baden, C., Aharoni, T., Amit-Danhi, E., & Tenenboim Weinblatt, K. (2023). Beyond sentiment: An algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora. Communication Methods and Measures, 10.1080/19312458.2023.2285783.

 

Aharoni, T., Amit-Danhi, E., Overbeck, M., Baden, C., & Tenenboim Weinblatt, K. (2023). “You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse. Journalism Studies, 24(13), 1651–1671.

 

 

Baden, C., Boxman-Shabtai, L., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Overbeck, M., & Aharoni, T. (2023). Meaning multiplicity and valid disagreement in textual measurement: A plea for a revised notion of reliability. Studies in Communication and Media, 12(4/2023), 305–326.

 

Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Baden, C., Aharoni, T., & Overbeck, M. (2022). Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective. Human Communication Research, 48(4), 553–566.

 

Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Baden, C., Aharoni, T., & Overbeck, M. (2022). Persistent Optimism under Political Uncertainty. In M. Shamir & G. Rahat, The Elections in Israel, 2019–2021 (1st ed., pp. 163–189). Routledge.

 

Aharoni, T., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Baden, C., Overbeck &, M. (2022). Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls. Journalism, 23(2), 337–353.

 

Overbeck, M. (2021). Die Rückkehr der Religion in die politische Öffentlichkeit: Religiöse Frames in westlichen Mediendebatten über bewaffnete Konflikte nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges (1990-2012). In Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus dem Tectum Verlag / Reihe Politikwissenschaften: Vol. Band 95. Tectum (Published Dissertation Monography).

 

Kantner, C., & Overbeck, M. (2020). Exploring Soft Concepts with Hard Corpus-Analytic Methods. In N. Reiter, A. Pichler, & J. Kuhn (Eds.), Reflektierte Algorithmische Textanalyse: Interdisziplinäre Arbeiten in der Creta-Werkstatt (pp. 169–190). De Gruyter.

 

Kantner, C., & Overbeck, M. (2018). Die Analyse „weicher” Konzepte mit „harten” korpusanalytischen Methoden. In A. Blätte, J. Behnke, K.-U. Schnapp, & C. Wagemann (Eds.), Computational Social Science (pp. 163–190). Nomos.

 

Overbeck, M. (2016). Die Rückkehr der Religion in die politische Öffentlichkeit? In M. Lemke & G. Wiedemann (Eds.), Text Mining in den Sozialwissenschaften: Grundlagen und Anwendungen zwischen qualitativer und quantitativer Diskursanalyse (pp. 343–367). Springer.

 

Kantner, C., & Overbeck, M. (2016). Religiöse Identitäten als Diskursblocker. In I.-J. Werkner & O. Hidalgo (Eds.), Religiöse Identitäten in politischen Konflikten (pp. 173–191). Springer.

 

Overbeck, M. (2015). Observers turning into participants: Shifting perspectives on religion and armed conflict in Western news coverage. The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, 36(2), 95-124.

 

Tietz, U., Kantner, C., & Overbeck, M. (2015). Multiple collective identities: The emergence of a new field of research in the social sciences. Introduction. The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville,, 36(2), 23–26.

 

Overbeck, M. (2014). European debates during the Libya crisis of 2011: Shared identity, divergent action. European Security, 23, 583-600.