SMaPP Global Conference
February 10-11, 2017
NYU Abu Dhabi – Saadiyat Campus Center
Co-Sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study
Friday, February 10th
7:30 – 9:30 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:00 Ruben Enikolopov (UPF, Barcelona and NES, Moscow): Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Protest Participation
11:00 – 12:00 Margaret E. Roberts (UCSD): Do Citizens Account For Media Bias? Evidence From China and the United States (with Seth J. Hill)
12:00 – 12:15 Coffee
12:15 – 1:15 Maria Petrova (UPF, Barcelona): Content and Coordination Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch and Collaborative Session
2:15 – 3:15 Nicholas Beauchamp (Northeastern): Clinton Hate Trumps Love: Incorporating Perspective into Word Spaces
3:15 – 4:15 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)
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee
4:30 – 5:30 Jennifer Pan (Stanford) and Margaret E. Roberts (UCSD): Censorship of Criticism Reduces Perceptions of Government Responsiveness (with Tianguang Meng)
5:30 – 6:30 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))
Saturday, February 11th
7:30 – 9:30 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:00 Solomon Messing (Pew Research): Negativity Bias: Partisan Conflict in Congressional Outreach (with Patrick Van Kessel, Adam Hughes, Rachel Blum, Nick Judd)
11:00 – 11:45 Dean Eckles (MIT): (Mis)information diffusion: Review and future directions (workshop paper)
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee
12:00 – 12:45 Cristian Vaccari (University of London): Inside the Black Box: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Algorithmic Feeds on Facebook and Twitter (workshop paper)
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch and Presentations of New Tools by James Pennebaker (University of Texas – Austin): LIWC and related programs
1:45 – 2:30 Samuel Gosling (University of Texas – Austin): Attentional focus and political orientation (with Miriam Redi) (workshop paper)
2:30 – 3:15 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (University of Pennsylvania): Digital News and the Consumption of Information Online (workshop paper)
3:15 – 4:15 Round Table Discussion
- Misinformation and Social Media: Pablo Barbera (USC), Jennifer Pan (Stanford), and Margaret Roberts (UCSD)
4:15 – 5:00 Logistical Discussion for SMaPP-Global Group: Next Conferences and Publication Plans