Daniel Miehling

Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor @ Indiana University Bloomington

Social scientist studying digital communication, political discourse, and online information environments.

I combine social science research with experience in project development, interdisciplinary coordination, teaching, and translating research into educational and public-facing formats.

My work brings together computational social science, communication science, and linguistics to examine how digital media shape political communication and public discourse. I focus on political polarization, misinformation, online hate, antisemitism, and the societal implications of AI and emerging digital technologies. I use large-scale computational methods where they help answer these questions.

Focus areas:
Research & Project Management • Political communication • Digital information environments • Political polarization • Contemporary antisemitism • Computational social science • Multimodal communication • Corpus linguistics • Jewish studies

Short CV

• Visiting Assistant Professor (2025–Present)
  Indiana University Bloomington, Borns Jewish Studies Program

• Faculty Lecturer (2024–2025)
  Regensburg University of Applied Sciences

• Ph.D. in General Linguistics (2021–2024)
  Technical University of Berlin
  Online-Antisemitismus verstehen: Hassrede im Web 2.0 (summa cum laude)

Research Interests

• Political communication
• Digital information environments
• Social media and public discourse
• Political and affective polarization
• Online antisemitism and hate speech
• Computational social science
• Multimodal communication
• Media literacy
• Jewish studies
• Corpus linguistics

Technical Skills

Programming

• Python
• R

Computational Methods

• Natural Language Processing
• Transformer models & Large Language Models
• Dependency parsing
• Speech-to-text systems
• Aspect-based sentiment analysis

Multimodal Analysis

• Vision-language models
• Video frame analysis
• Cross-modal pipelines

Infrastructure

• High-performance computing (Jetstream2)
• GPU computing
• Large-scale social media data processing

Tools

• Git
• Colab
• Label Studio
• LaTeX
• Jira
• Canvas
• TOPHAT
• Gardio

Academic Memberships

• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL)
• AK Antisemitismusforschung, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Awards & Fellowships

• Research Fellow (2025–Present)
  London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA)

• Samerian Foundation Visiting Research Fellow (2025–Present)
  Indiana University Bloomington

• ISGAP–Oxford Summer Institute (Curriculum Development) (July–August 2024)
  University of Oxford

• Ph.D. Fellowship (2021–2024)
  Hans-Böckler Foundation

• M.A. Fellowship (2017–2019)
  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes