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Irvine Auditorium Main Hall (A)Houston: Bodek LoungeHouston: Hall of Flags (K)Houston: Ben Franklin Room (B)Irvine: Cafe 58 (C)Irvine: Amado Recital Hall (D)Houston: Golkin (E)Irvine: G7 (F)Irvine: G16 (G)Irvine: Green Room (H)Williams Hall G01 (I)Williams Hall 723 (J)Penn Museum
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Wednesday, July 17, 20249:00 AM - 12:30 PMTutorial: New Approaches and Data Sources to Study Digital Media and Democracy; Sebastian Stier, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Lisa Oswald, David Lazer (tutorial website)Tutorial: Making Models We Can Understand: An Interactive Introduction to Interpretable Machine Learning; Chudi Zhong, Alina Jade Barnett, Harsh Parikh (tutorial website)Tutorial: Collecting Digital Trace Data Through Data Donation; Laura Boeschoten, Niek de Schipper (tutorial website)Tutorial: Exploring Emerging Social Media: Acquiring, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python and OSoMe Web Tools; Filipi Nascimento Silva, Kaicheng Yang, Bao Tran Truong, Wanying Zhao (tutorial website)
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
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1:00 PM - 1:45 PMDirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)Dirk Helbing: Societies are complex systems. So, how to manage them? (virtual keynote)
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1:30 PM - 5:00 PMTutorial: Training Computational Social Science Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers; Jae Yeon Kim, Tiago Ventura, Aniket Kesari, Sono Shah, Tina Law (tutorial website)Tutorial: Using LLMs for Computational Social Science; Diyi Yang, Caleb Ziems, Niklas Stoehr (tutorial website)Tutorial: Thinking With Deep Learning: An Exposition Of Deep (Representation) Learning for Social Science Research; James Evans, Bhargav Srinivasa DesikanTutorial: Active Agents: An Active Inference Approach to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences; Andrew Pashea
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5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWelcome mixer
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Thursday, July 18, 20248:15 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast (Main Hall Box Office)
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9:00 AM - 9:30 AMLightning talks
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AMMeta panel: Talia Stroud, University of Texas; Chad P. Kiewiet De Jonge, Meta; Kevin Munger, European Union Institute (keynote)
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM02. Algorithmics & Public Opinion: 1A10. Politics and Media: 1B08. Networks and Social Systems: 1C03. AI and HCI: 1D07. Misinformation and Fact-Checking: 1E08. Networks and Social Systems: 1F04. Methods & Innovations: 1G12. Culture and Online Communities: 1H14. AI in Education: 1I
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PMMentorship lunch
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PMPoster session 1
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2:30 PM - 4:00 PMPublishing with Nature Portfolio journals – and recent developments in academic publishing07. Misinformation and Fact-Checking: 2B04. Methods & Innovations: 2C10. Politics and Media: 2D12. Culture and Online Communities: 2E05. Social Impact and Policy: 2F15. AI-driven Behavioral Economics: 2G20. Policy and Urban Planning: 2H17. AI and the Future of Work: 2I
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4:30 PM - 5:15 PMTalal Rahwan: A Global Perspective of Scientists and Editors (keynote)
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5:15 PM - 6:00 PMAmy Orben: Screen Savers: Protecting Adolescent Mental Health in a Digital World (keynote)
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Friday, July 19, 20248:15 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast (Main Hall Box Office)Breakfast
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9:00 AM - 9:45 AMLightning talks
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9:45 AM - 10:30 AMDan Jurafsky: Using NLP to Study Social Questions: Police-Community Relations and the Politics of Immigration (keynote)
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PMModels for data access in the post API world10. Politics and Media: 3B02. Algorithmics & Public Opinion: 3C12. Culture and Online Communities: 3D04. Methods & Innovations: 3E06. Data and Privacy: 3F05. Social Impact and Policy: 3G13. Platform governance: 3H04. Methods & Innovations: 3I18. Social Media Dynamics and Content Analysis: 3J
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PMMentorship lunch
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PMPoster session 2
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2:30 PM - 4:00 PMThe Meta Content Library: A Researcher's Guide08. Networks and Social Systems: 4B04. Methods & Innovations: 4C16. Computational Epidemiology and Public Health: 4D12. Culture and Online Communities: 4E09. Crises, Emergencies, and Disasters: 4F10. Politics and Media: 4G05. Social Impact and Policy: 4H17. AI and the Future of Work: 4I19. AI for Civic Engagement: 4J
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4:10 PM - 4:55 PMElizabeth Bruch: Date Like a Local: Pursuing Romantic Partners in U.S. Cities (keynote)
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4:55 PM - 5:40 PMDivya Sharma: Privacy Engineering on the Ground: Problems, Principles, Perspectives (keynote)
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5:45 PM - 6:15 PMCommunity Town Hall
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6:30 PM - 9:30 PMConference dinner
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Saturday, July 20, 20248:15 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM02. Algorithmics & Public Opinion: 5K07. Misinformation and Fact-Checking: 5B04. Methods & Innovations: 5C14. AI in Education: 5D10. Politics and Media: 5E01. Fairness and bias: 5F20. Policy and Urban Planning: 5G04. Methods & Innovations: 5H
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10:50 AM - 11:35 AMMatthew Gentzkow: Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment (keynote)
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11:35 AM - 12:20 PMDesmond Patton: AI for Gun Violence Prevention: Helpful or Harmful? (keynote)
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12:20 PM - 12:35 PMAwards
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