Schedule

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome by the Head of the Computational Social Science Center [Prof. Giampiero Giacomello]
09:15 - 10:45 Lecture, Causal Machine Learning [Prof. Chiara Binelli, University of Bologna]
11:00 - 13:00 Data management & Web Scraping, ‘Creating a dataset from scratch in CSS
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Chris Albon’s talk cancelled

09:30 - 10:30 Lab, Introduction to Text Analysis and Topic Modeling [Aidar Zinnatullin]
10:30 - 12:00 Lab, Scaling techniques and sentiment analysis [Paride Carrara & Simon Luck]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 ‘Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media’ [Dr. Franziska Pradel-Sınacı, Technical University of Munich]

09:00 - 10:30 Lecture on Working with Digital Traces [Prof. Marco Albertini, University of Bologna]
10:30 - 12:00 Lab, ‘Integrating Github in your research workflow and APIs’ [Aidar Zinnatullin]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 ‘AI & Society’ [Prof. Laura Sartori, University of Bologna]

09:30 - 11:30 Keynote Speech, ‘Amplified Extremes: Using Large Language Models to Understand Destructive Political Polarization in Italian Elections’ [Prof. Fabio Giglietto]
11:30 - 12:00 Organization & Induction of Second Week
Travel to Bologna

09:30 - 10:00 Arrival to Bologna and Welcome by the Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of UniBo [Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro]
10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Augmenting Ourselves. How to Use AI to Massively Annotate Text’ [Prof. Étienne Ollion]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Introduction of Group Work
14:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]
16:30 - ‘Get-to-know’ Aperitivo
20:00 - Social Dinner

10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Language Models for Social Science Sesearch, in Practice’ [Dr. Rubing Shen]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]

10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech ‘Gendered patterns in academia: insights from text-as-data’ [Prof. Alessandra Casarico]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 Keynote Speech, ‘Application of Computational Methods in the Non-Academic Field’ [Dr. Oltion Preka]
14:30 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]

10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Studying Social Interactions and Dynamics with Network Analysis Techniques and Causal Inference Identification Strategies’ [Prof. Milena Tsvetkova]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:00 Lab, ‘Applied Network Analysis’ [Prof. Tommaso Venturini]
15:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]

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