Institute of Communication Psychology and Media Education (IKM)

Welcome to the Hugging Face organization of the Institute of Communication Psychology and Media Education (IKM).

IKM is a research institute at the Faculty of Psychology at RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Landau, Germany.
More information about the university can be found at: https://rptu.de

Our institute conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of communication science, media psychology, and computational social science. We study how communication processes unfold in digital environments and how computational methods and artificial intelligence can support the analysis of large-scale communication data.

Research Focus

Our work combines social science theory with computational methods to study communication in digital and social media environments.

Key research areas include:

• Computational Social Science
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Models (LLMs) for social science research
• Political communication and online discourse
• Argumentation mining and discourse analysis
• Social media analysis
• AI-assisted content analysis
• Multilingual communication in digital spaces
• Responsible and ethical use of AI in research

What We Share Here

In this organization we publish resources that support open and reproducible research, including:

• Datasets for communication and media research
• Models for analyzing social and political communication
• Code and tools for computational social science
• Resources for automated content analysis

Collaboration

We welcome collaboration with researchers working in areas such as:

• Communication science
• Computational social science
• Natural language processing
• Media psychology
• Political communication
• Digital media research

For more information about the institute and its research activities, visit
https://psy.rptu.de/aes/ikm