CSMaP Second Annual Conference

Thursday, April 22

• Introduction

  12:00 – 12:15 pm

  Richard Bonneau
  NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics

• 12:15 – 12:45 pm

  Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
  — Christopher Bail, Duke University

• Political Experiences on Social Media

  12:45 – 1:30 pm

  Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in
  Western Democracies
  — Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University

  When Republicans See Red but Liberals Feel Blue: Why Labeler
  Characteristics Matter for Image Analysis
  — Nora Webb Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Tweetkeeping: Why Politically-interested Iranian Accounts Get
  Suspended on Twitter
  — Andreu Casas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Partisan Cues and Social Life

  1:30 – 2:00 pm

  Shared Partisanship Dramatically Increases Social Tie Formation in a Twitter Field Experiment
  — Dean Eckles, MIT

  Echo Chambers: Does Online Network Structure Affect Political Polarization?
  — Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

• 2:00 – 2:30 pm

  New Take on Echo Chambers, New Evidence on Media Bubbles
  — Magadalena Wojcieszak, University of California, Davis

• 2:30 – 3:00 pm

  Coffee Break

• Political Communications on Social Media

  3:00 - 3:30 pm

  News and Partisanship on Social Media
  — Talia Stroud, University of Texas at Austin

  Legislative Communications and Power: Measuring Leadership from Social Media Data
  — Michael Alvarez, Caltech

• 3:30 - 4:00 pm

  Online Sentiment Toward the Chinese Government during the Emergence of COVID-19
  — Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

• Partisan Cues and Polarization

  4:00 - 4:45 pm

  How YouTube’s Recommendation
  Algorithm Pushes Real People Content
  — Megan Brown, NYU

  Social Media, Contact and Conflict: Evidence from a Field
  Experiment in Cyprus
  — Nejla Ašimović, NYU

• Re-Examining Attitude Change in Digital Life

  4:45 - 5:15 pm

  Desegregating Digital Spaces: A Facebook Field Experiment in Jerusalem
  — Alexandra Siegel, University of Colorado at Boulder

  Partisan Motivated Reasoning in a Pandemic
  — James Bisbee, NYU

Friday, April 23

• 12:00 - 12:30 pm

  Exposure to Alternative and Extremist Content on YouTube
  — Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College

• Harmful Content & Its Correction

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Endorsement of Correction on Social Media
  — Leticia Bode, Georgetown University

  A Large-Scale Comparison of Political News Sharing on Facebook and Twitter
  — Nicholas Beauchamp, Northeastern University

  Measuring Belief in Fake News in Real Time
  — Kevin Aslett, NYU

  How Data, Knowledge, and Expertise Mobilize in Online Media during the COVID-19 Crisis
  — Emma Spiro, University of Washington

• 1:30 - 2:00 pm

  YouTube Recommendations and Effects on Sharing Across Online Social Platforms
  — Cody Buntain, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• Articulating the Research Terrain

  2:30 - 2:30 pm

  Investigating the Iranian Twittersphere
  — Steven Wilson, Brandeis University

  Towards Quantitative Description
  — Kevin Munger, Pennsylvania State University

• 2:30 - 3:00 pm

  Coffee break

• 3:00 - 3:30 pm

  US 2020 and 2016 Election: Media, Social Media, and Political Attitudes
  — Jonathan Nagler, NYU

• Network Effects

  3:30 - 4:15 pm

  Scale, Growth, and Origins of Echo Chambers: YouTube, Online, and Television
  — David Rothschild, Microsoft Research

  The Effects of the Capitol Insurrection on Political Identity
  — Gregory Eady, University of Copenhagen

  Four Reasons Why Social Media Make Us Vulnerable to Manipulation
  — Filippo Menczer, Indiana University

• 4:15 - 4:45 pm

  How Social Influence Shapes Online Political Expression
  — Andrew Guess, Princeton University

• The State of Social Media Data

  4:45 - 5:15 pm

  Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Law School

  Rebekah Tromble, The George Washington University

  Joshua Tucker, NYU