SMaPP Global Conference
February 10-11, 2017
NYU Abu Dhabi – Saadiyat Campus Center
Co-Sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi and the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study
Friday, February 10th
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Ruben Enikolopov (UPF, Barcelona and NES, Moscow): Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Protest Participation
10:00 – 11:00 Margaret E. Roberts (UCSD): Do Citizens Account For Media Bias? Evidence
From China and the United States (with Seth J. Hill)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:15 Maria Petrova (UPF, Barcelona): Content and Coordination Censorship in
Authoritarian Regimes
12:15 – 1:15 Nicholas Beauchamp (Northeastern): Clinton Hate Trumps Love: Incorporating Perspective into Word Spaces
1:15 – 2:30 Lunch and Collaborative Session
2:30 – 3:30 Joanna Sterling (NYU): Political Psycholinguistics: Epistemic Motivation and
Language Differences as a Function of Ideology and Extremity (with John T. Jost (NYU), Richard Bonneau (NYU & Simons Foundation), Joshua A. Tucker (NYU)
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee
3:45 – 4:45 Jennifer Pan (Stanford) and Margaret E. Roberts (UCSD): Censorship of
Criticism Reduces Perceptions of Government Responsiveness (with Tianguang Meng)
4:45 – 5:45 Alexandra Seigel (NYU): Tweeting Beyond Tahrir: Ideological Diversity and Political Tolerance in Egyptian Twitter Networks. (with Richard Bonneau (NYU & Simons Foundation), Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A. Tucker (NYU))
7:00 Group Dinner at Byblos sur Mer – Intercontinental
Saturday, February 11th
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Solomon Messing (Pew Research): Negativity Bias: Partisan Conflict in
Congressional Outreach (with Patrick Van Kessel, Adam Hughes, Rachel Blum, Nick Judd)
10:00 – 10:45 Dean Eckles (MIT): (Mis)information diffusion: Review and future directions (workshop paper)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:45 Cristian Vaccari (University of London): Inside the Black Box: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Algorithmic Feeds on Facebook and Twitter (workshop paper)
11:45 – 12:30 Samuel Gosling (University of Texas – Austin): Attentional focus and political orientation (with Miriam Redi) (workshop paper)
12:30 – 1:15 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (University of Pennsylvania): Digital News and the
Consumption of Information Online (workshop paper)
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch and Presentations of New Tools by James Pennebaker (University of Texas – Austin): LIWC and related programs
2:15 – 3:45 Round Table Discussion
- Misinformation and Social Media: Pablo Barbera (USC), Jennifer Pan (Stanford), and Margaret Roberts (UCSD)
3:45 – 4:30 Joshua Tucker (NYU): Preliminary Reflections on Social Media and 2016 US Election – Towards a Research Agenda (workshop paper)
4:30 – 5:00 Logistical Discussion for SMaPP-Global Group: Next Conferences and Publication Plans
Saturday Evening: Dinner Cruise (pick up Time TBA)