5th Bi-Annual SMaPP Global Conference
The Politics Department, 19 W 4th Street, Room 217
Agenda (pdf with abstracts)
Friday, November 3
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 10:00 Anjie Fang, Philip Habel, Craig MacDonald, and Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow): Votes on Twitter: Understanding Citizens’ Candidate Preferences and the Topics of Conversation During the 2016 Presidential Election
10:00 – 10:45 Shawndra Hill (UPenn), Masha Krupenkin (Stanford), and David Rothschild (Microsoft Research): Partisanship and Risky Financial Decisions
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich, Richard Bonneau, and Joshua A. Tucker (NYU): For Whom the Bot Tolls: Bots in Russian Political Twitter 2014-17
11:45 – 12:30 Sarah Shugars and Nick Beauchamp (Northeastern): Conversational Dynamics in Online Arguments
12:30 –1:00 Jonathan Nagler, Greg Eady, Andy Guess, Kevin Munger, Joshua Tucker, and Jan Zilinsky (NYU): Twitter Bubbles: Myth or Reality – Mapping the Ideological Distribution of What/Who People Follow on Twitter
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Collaborative Session I
2:00 – 2:45 Kayla Jordan and Jamie Pennebaker (University of Texas, Austin): The Language of Politics and Culture: It’s more interesting than we thought
2:45 – 3:30 Cristian Vaccari (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Augusto Valeriani (University of Bologna): Digital Conversations and Political Participation: Comparing Established and Third Wave Democracies
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:30 Tobias Rothmund (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany): Temporal and Interpersonal Dynamics of the Formation of Political Action Groups in Facebook – The case of the German “Refugee Crisis”
4:30 – 5:15 Andreu Casas, Pablo Barbera, Patrick Egan, Richard Bonneau, John Jost, Joshua Tucker (NYU): Leaders or Followers? Measuring Political Responsiveness in the U.S. Congress Using Social Media Data
5:15 – 6:00 Happy Hour with NYU Politics Department
6:15 Dinner for SMaPP Global Members at Alta Restaurant (64 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011)
Saturday, November 4
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 – 10:15 Dean Eckles (MIT), with Christos Nicolaides (MIT): Information-theoretic Measures of Habit in Behavioral Data
10:15 – 11:00 Maria Petrova (UPF, Barcelona), with Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago), Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University), and Ruben Enikolopov (UPF, Barcelona and NES, Moscow): Social Media and Xenophobia
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15– 12:00 Molly Roberts (UCSD) and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (UCLA): Measuring Internet Outages Using Twitter
12:00– 12:45 Stefan Wojcik (Pew Research Center) and Solomon Messing (Pew Research Center): Hyper-partisan Fake News or Business as Usual? How Bots Spread News Media on Twitter
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 Douglas Guilbeault (UPenn), Nick Monaco (Oxford Internet Institute), and Sandra González-Bailón (UPenn): Bot Influence during the 2017 Constitutional Assembly Election in Venezuela
2:15 – 3:30 Roundtable: Online incivility and hate speech on social media: How should we define it? How to measure? What are the consequences for the quality of public deliberation? What techniques are effective at reducing it?: Pablo Barberá (USC), Yannis Theocharis (University of Mannheim), Alex Siegel (NYU), Joshua Tucker (NYU), Kevin Munger (NYU), Cristian Vaccari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
3:30 – 4:30 Coffee, Publication Planning Session, and Collaborative Session II
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