• Since 2020: Research associate at the Division Communication Theory and Media Effects, Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

• 2017 to 2020: Research associate at the Division Public Spheres (Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr), Department of Communication, University of Münster

• 2014 to 2016: M.A. Media and Political Communication, Freie Universität Berlin

• 2010 to 2014: B.A. Media and Communication Studies and Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Summer term 2022

• BA - Seminar 28629: Spaces of Digital Media

Winter term 2017/2018

• Proseminar: Einführung in die empirische Kommunikationsforschung

• Digital communication

• Public spheres and space

• Online activism

• Computational communication research

Projects:

• Reseach associate in the project "Translocal Networks: Public Sphere in the Social Web", subproject of the Collaborative Research Center "Re-Figuration of Spaces" (CRC 1265), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Books

• Stoltenberg, D. (2024). The Spaces of Public Issues: How Social Media Discourses Shape Public Imaginations of Issue Spatiality. Routledge.

Journal Articles

• Baran, Z. & Stoltenberg, D. (2023). Tracing the emergent field of digital environmental and climate activism research: A mixed-methods systematic literature review. Environmental Communication, 17(5), 453–468. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2212137 (Note: authors contributed equally) (open access)

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., Keinert, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2023). Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231156579 (open access)

• Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B, Keinert, A., & Waldherr, A. (2022). Who are they and where? Insights into the social and spatial dimensions of imagined audiences from a mobile diary study of Twitter users. Social Media + Society, 8(3), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221123032

• Maier, D., Baden, C., Stoltenberg, D., de Vries Kedem, M., & Waldherr, A. (2022). Machine translation vs. multilingual dictionaries: Assessing two strategies for the topic modeling of multilingual text collections. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(1), 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2021.1955845

• Pfetsch, B., Maier, D., Stoltenberg, D., Waldherr, A., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., & de Vries Kedem, M. (2021). Topographies of local public spheres on social media: The scope of issues and interactions. International Journal of Communication, 15, 3645–3670. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17253

• Stoltenberg, D. (2021). Issue spatiality. A conceptual framework for understanding the role of space in public discourses. Media and Communication, 9(3), 5–15. https://www.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.3958

• Kligler-Vilenchik, N., de Vries Kedem, M., Maier, D., & Stoltenberg, D. (2021). Mobilization vs. demobilization discourses on social media. Political Communication, 38(5), 561–580.  https://www.doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1820648

• Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Stoltenberg, D., de Vries Kedem, M., Gur-Ze’ev, H., Waldherr, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2020). Tweeting in the Time of Coronavirus: How Social Media Use and Academic Research Evolve during Times of Global Uncertainty. Social Media + Society, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948258

• Maier, D., Niekler, A., Wiedemann, G., & Stoltenberg, D. (2020). How document sampling and vocabulary pruning affect the results of topic models. Computational Communication Research, 2(2), 139–152. https://www.doi.org/10.5117/CCR2020.2.001.MAIE

• Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., & Waldherr, A. (2019). Community detection in civil society online networks: Theoretical guide and empirical assessment. Social Networks, 59, 120–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.07.001

• Waldherr, A., Wehden, L.-O., Stoltenberg, D., Miltner, P., Ostner, S., & Pfetsch, B. (2019). Induktive Kategorienbildung in der Inhaltsanalyse: Kombination automatischer und manueller Verfahren. FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.1.3058

• Wehden, L.-O. & Stoltenberg, D. (2019). So Far, Yet So Close: Examining Translocal Twitter Audiences of Regional Newspapers in Germany. Journalism Studies, 20(10), 1400–1420. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1520609

Articles in Anthologies

• Maier, D., Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2022). Talking to my community Elsewhere – Bringing together networked public spheres and the concept of translocal communities. In A. Million, C. Haid, I. Castillo Ulloa & N. Baur (eds.), Spatial transformations: The effect of mediatization, mobility, and social dislocation on the re-figuration of spaces (pp. 181–191). Routledge.

• Keinert, A., Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2021). Auf der Suche nach translokalen Öffentlichkeiten. In J. Hoerning & P. Misselwitz (eds.), Räume in Veränderung: Ein visuelles Lesebuch (pp. 190–201). jovis.

• Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2021). Geolokalisierung digitaler Daten. In A. J. Heinrich, S. Marguin, A. Million, J. Stollmann (eds.), Handbuch qualitative und visuelle Methoden der Raumforschung  (pp. 445–456). Transcript/UTB

• Stoltenberg, D. & Maier, D. (2019). Descriptive Methods for Investigating Dynamics in Online Networks. In Müller, Philipp; Geiß, Stefan; Schemer, Christian; Naab, Teresa K.; Peter, Christina (eds.), Dynamische Prozesse der öffentlichen Kommunikation. Methodische Herausforderungen (pp. 144–173). Herbert von Halem.

Scientific Reports

• Waldherr, A., Ostner, S., Müller, L.-O., Miltner, P., Stoltenberg, D., Sona, P.  & B. Pfetsch (2015). Wissenschaftliche Auswertung von Bürger- und Online-Dialogen zum Thema Lebensqualität in Deutschland. [Scientific analysis of citizen and online dialogs on the issue of quality of life in Germany].

Talks/Conference Presentations

• Stoltenberg, D. (2023). Mapping the spaces of issue discourses on Twitter: An approach to combining gazetteers and computational text analysis. 73^rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada, 25-29 May.

• Stoltenberg, D., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., de Vries Kedem, M., Gur-Ze’ev, H., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2023). Leaning in or turning away? Differential patterns of Twitter use during early pandemic lockdown. 73^rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada, 25-29 May.

• Pfetsch, B., Stoltenberg, D., & Baran, Z. (2023). Physical locations and digital spaces in environmental conflicts: Patterns of top-down and bottom-up communication in movement activism. 73^rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada, 25-29 May.

• Baran, Z. & Stoltenberg, D. (2023). Tracing the emergent field of digital environmental and climate activism research: A mixed-methods systematic literature review. 73^rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada, 25-29 May.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2022). (Trans-)local integration in urban Twitter issue discourses: A semantic network analysis approach. ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 22-26 August.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., Keinert, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2022). Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter. 72^nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Paris, France, 26-30 May.

• Keinert, A., Pfetsch, B., Stoltenberg, D., & Waldherr, A. (2022). The spatial and social dimensions of imagined audiences: A mobile diary study of Twitter users. 72^nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Paris, France, 26-30 May.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., Keinert, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2022). Translocalization of digital public spheres: A relational perspective. Media and Publics Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 28-29 April.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2022). The spatiality of issue publics: Evidence from the Twitter discourse on housing in Berlin. Media and Publics Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 28-29 April.

• Keinert, A., Pfetsch, B., Stoltenberg, D., & Waldherr, A. (2022). The spatial and social dimensions of imagined audiences: Results from a mobile diary study of Twitter users. Media and Publics Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 28-29 April.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., Keinert, A., & Pfetsch, B. (2022). Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter. Relational Spatial Methods Conference, Berlin, Germany, 16-17 September.

• Keinert, A., Pfetsch, B., Stoltenberg, D., & Waldherr, A. (2021). The spatial and social dimensions of imagined audiences: A concept revisited. 3^rd International Conference of the SFB 1265, Berlin, Germany, 28-29 October.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2020, accepted). Challenging Spatial Marginalization through Social Media Communication? A Case Study of the Twitter Discourse on Housing in Berlin. Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, virtual conference, October 27-31, 2020.

• Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2020, accepted). Ortsspuren in digitalen Daten: Strategien zur Geolokalisierung von Tweets. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, virtual conference, September 14-19, 2020.

• Maier, D., Baden, C., Stoltenberg, D., de Vries, M., & Waldherr, A. (2020, accepted). Assessing strategies for topic modeling of multilingual text collections in communication research. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, virtual conference, August 24-28, 2020.

• Maier, D., Baden, C., Stoltenberg, D., de Vries, M., & Waldherr, A. (2020). Assessing strategies for topic modeling of multilingual text collections in communication research. 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), virtual conference, May 20-26, 2020.

• Kligler-Vilenchik, N., de Vries, M., Maier, D., & Stoltenberg, D. (2019). Twitter Networks of Voter (De)Mobilization in the 2018 Municipal Elections in Jerusalem: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (EuroCSS), Zurich, Switzerland, September 03, 2019.

• Pfetsch, B., Maier, D., Stoltenberg, D., Waldherr, A., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., & de Vries, M. (2019). How local is the digital public sphere on Twitter? A comparison between Jerusalem and Berlin. 69^th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington DC, United States, May 26, 2019.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2019). The Role of Spatialized Inequality in Shaping Political Discourse in Social Media Urban Public Spheres. 69^th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Doctoral Pre-Conference, Political Communication Division, Washington DC, United States, May 24, 2019.

• Maier, D., Stoltenberg, D., Waldherr, A. & Pfetsch, B. (2019). TweetX: An R-shiny web application for exploring collections of tweets. 64. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), WWU Münster, Münster, Germany, May 11, 2019.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2019). Integrierte Nachbarschaft(en)? Lokale Repräsentanz und Vernetzung in Social Media-Stadtöffentlichkeiten. 64. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), WWU Münster, Münster, Germany, May 10, 2019.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., & Pfetsch, B. (2019). Translocal networks: Public sphere in the social web. Invited Seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, March 25, 2019.

• Maier, D., Stoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., & Waldherr, A. (2019). Translocal networks in urban Twitter spheres: A case study from Berlin. Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation. First International Conference of the SFB 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, February 21, 2019.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., & Pfetsch, B. (2018). Translocalization of public spheres in a digitized world. 7^th Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Lugano, Switzerland, November 01, 2018.

• Stoltenberg, D. & Wehden, L.-O. (2018). So Far, Yet So Close: Examining Translocal Twitter Audiences of Regional Newspapers in Germany. 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2018.

• Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D., & Waldherr, A. (2018). Community Detection in Online Networks of Civil Society: Theoretical Guide and Empirical Assessment. 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2018.

• Stoltenberg, D. & Wehden, L.-O. (2017). Kennt Regionaljournalismus Grenzen? Räumliche Verortung der Follower regionaler Zeitungen auf Twitter. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Digitale Kommunikation, Stuttgart, Germany, November 09, 2017.

• Waldherr, A., Stoltenberg, D., Maier, D. & Pfetsch, B. (2017). Translokalisierung von Öffentlichkeiten in einer digitalisierten Welt: Ein Theoriebeitrag. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Digitale Kommunikation, Stuttgart, Germany, November 09, 2017.

• Stoltenberg, D. (2017). Entdeckung kohäsiver Subgruppen in Hyperlink-Netzwerken. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Methoden der Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Mainz, Germany, September 21, 2017.