Annual IDeaS Conference Agenda
July 12-13, 2021
Conference Agenda
*All times listed in EDT. Agenda subject to change
Day 1 Day 2 Back to Main Conference PageDay 1 - Monday, July 12 concurrent sessions, panel discussions, keynote, reception
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Concurrent Sessions Track A Moderator: Christine Lepird |
Concurrent Sessions Track B Moderator: Daniele Bellutta |
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9:45am |
10:05 |
Visual Misinformation on Facebook Yunkang Yang, Trevor Davis and Matthew Hindman |
On the Stability of BotHunter Scores Lynnette Ng |
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10:05 |
10:25 |
Conversational Uncertainty from Misinformation in Social Media during COVID-19: An Examination of Emotions Thi Tran, Pranali Mandaoka, Naga Vemprala, Rohit Valecha, Govind Hariharan and H.R. Rao |
A Probabilistic Approach to Measuring Online User Extremism: A Case Study of a Novel Dataset from Breitbart News Sharad Varadarajan, Aaron Holm, Sieu Tran, Nathen Huang and Johanna Jan |
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10:25 |
10:45 |
Connecting the Domains: An Investigation of Internet Domains found in COVID-19 Conspiracy Tweets J.D. Moffitt, Catherine King and Kathleen Carley |
What Distinguishes Disseminators of Antisemitic Tweets and What Themes Do They Use? Gunther Jikeli and Rhonda K. Fischer |
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10:45 |
11:00 |
BREAK |
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11:00 |
12:45pm |
Panel - Platform Accountability Moderator: Dr. David Danks - Louis Leon (L. L.) Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology. Head, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University |
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12:45 |
1:00 |
BREAK |
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1:00 |
2:45 |
Keynote Richard Stengel |
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2:45 |
4:15 |
Panel- Disinformation Moderator: Dr. Mark S. Kamlet - Interim Director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy, the University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Provost Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon |
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4:15 |
4:30 |
BREAK |
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Concurrent Session Track A Moderator: J.D. Moffitt |
Concurrent Session Track B Moderator: Isabel Murdock |
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4:30 |
4:50 |
Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic Nick Byrd and Michał Białek |
Social correction across party lines Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles and David Rand |
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4:50 |
5:10 |
Fake or Not? Covid-19 Misinformation, Between Science and Social Networks Izzat Alsmadi and Michael O'Brien |
The Modern Moderator's Dilemma: Incremental Improvements to Address Unique Harms of Social Media Jeffrey Westling |
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5:10 |
5:30 |
COVID Needles in Social Media Haystacks: Identifying Cross-Language and Longitudinal Changes in Pandemic-Related Discussion Topics Sarah Marvi, Valerie Novak, Michelle Morrison, Ruthanna Gordon, Tess Wood, Sarah Oates, Anton Rytting, Kelly Jones, Shawn Janzen and Michael Maxwell |
GRoBERTa: Pre-Trained Embeddings for Offensive Language Detection and Mitigation Zhuo Cheng, Khyati Mahajan and Samira Shaikh |
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5:30 |
5:45 |
BREAK |
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5:45 |
6:45 |
IDeaS Reception |
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Day 2 - Tuesday, July 13 concurrent sessions, panel discussions, Knight Fellows Research
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Concurrent Session Track A Moderator: Lynnette Ng |
Concurrent Session Track B Moderator: Catherine King |
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10:00 |
10:20 |
Exposure, Enforcement, and Then What? How Information Operations Actors Use Persistence Mechanisms to Adapt After Campaign Exposure Sam Riddell, Ron Graf and Lee Foster |
Stance Detection in the Context of Fake News Izzat Alsmadi, Iyad Alazzam and Mohammad Al-Ramahi |
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10:20 |
10:40 |
Multi-Platform Analysis of 2020 U.S. Election Fraud and Protest Related Posts Isabel Murdock, Kathleen M. Carley and Osman Yagan |
Annotation Tool for Tweets Gunther Jikeli, Deepika Awasthi, Denizhan Pak and Daniel Miehling *This is a technology demonstration |
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10:40 |
11:00 |
Distinguishing Disruptive Trolls from Automated Bots Joshua Uyheng and Kathleen M. Carley |
Twincler Spark for faster detection of harmful content and platform abuse with large-scale content moderation and recommendation systems Tabea Wilke and Achim Kühn *This is a technology demonstration
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11:00 |
12:45 |
Panel- Domestic Extremism Moderator: Dr. John Slattery - Directing Fellow, Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University |
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12:45 |
1:00 |
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1:00 |
2:45 |
Panel- Hate Speech Moderator: Dr. Kathleen Blee - Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh |
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2:45 |
3:00 |
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Knight Fellow Research Presentations |
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3:00 |
3:10 |
Joshua Uyheng - Network Dynamics of Online Hate |
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3:10 |
3:20 |
Cori Faklaris - Developing a Socio-Cognitive Stage Model of Cybersecurity Behavior Adoption |
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3:20 |
3:30 |
Christine Lepird - Finding Low-Credibility News Domains |
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3:30 |
3:40 |
Daniele Bellutta - Comparing the Behavioral Effects of Different Interactions with Sources of Misinformation |
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3:40 |
3:50 |
Mansi Sood - Spread of evolving contagions on multilayer networks |
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3:50 |
4:00 |
Isabel Murdock - Multi-Platform Analysis of 2020 U.S. Election Fraud and Protest Posts |
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4:00 |
4:10 |
Catherine King – Investigating why individuals share misinformation on social media |
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4:10 |
4:15 |
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4:15 |
4:25 |
Chris Rodriguez – Psychological Methods for Bot Detection |
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4:25 |
4:35 |
Aman Tyagi – Frames and their Affective Dimensions: A Case Study of Climate Change News Articles |
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4:35 |
4:45 |
James Michelson - Future-Proofing Democratic Institutions: Lottocracy as a Prophylactic Against Disinformation |
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4:45 |
4:55 |
Ramon Villa-Cox - Exploring Polarization in Social Media during the 2019 South American Protests |
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4:55 |
5:05 |
Tom Magelinski - Discovering Prototypical Attributes of Online Communities Through Multi-View Modularity Vitality |
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