Daniel Miehling

Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor @ Indiana University Bloomington

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

I investigate how digital media shape political communication and public discourse. My research combines computational social science, communication science, and linguistics to study political polarization, misinformation, online hate, antisemitism, and the societal impact of emerging digital technologies using large-scale computational methods.

Focus areas:
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