June 29 to July 12, 2025 | Como, Italy
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Introduction to SICSS-Lake Como
Flashtalks by participants I
Coffee Break
Flashtalks by participants II
Lunch
SICSS Unconference I
Coffee Break
Opening talk: Zhijing Jin, University of Toronto (Causal reasoning with large language models)
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Chen Peng, Bocconi University (Replicating conjoint experiments with LLMs)
Lorenzo Lupo, Bocconi University (SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviours)
Coffee Break
Ben Rochford, Duke University (Bot or Not: social identity cues shape the perceived humanity of online profiles)
Lunch
Group exercise (B. Rochford, Z. Aghamohammadi)
Coffee break
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
Irene Pasquetto, University of Maryland (What is the future of disinformation research?) (Material 1, Material 2)
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Eaman Jahani, University of Maryland Business School (Direct and Indirect Effects of Prosocial Messages on Harmful Content Engagement)
Coffee Break
Chiara Binelli, University of Bologna (Building Better Theories Through Prediction and Explanation)
Lunch
Group exercise (C. Binelli, B. Rochford) (Main reference)
Coffee break
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
Como Evenings Lecture by Chris Bail (Bridging Divides with Generative AI)
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Friedolin Merhout, University of Copenhagen (Using Internet Search Data for Comparative Longitudinal Research: The Case of the Radical Right Across Europe)
Coffee Break
Paul Bouchaud, Complex Systems Institute of Paris (Title: TBC)
Lunch
Group exercise (P. Bouchaud, Z. Aghamohammadi)
Coffee break
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
Douglas Guilbeault, Stanford University (Title: TBC)
EPO - SICSS Workshop Welcoming Address
EPO Project Welcoming Address
Hiroki Yamashita, EHESS-CNRS (Title: Measuring dimensionality of political space using social media data)
Jonathan Cardoso-Silva, London School of Economics (Title: Latent Network Models in Social Networks)
Marton Karsai, Central European University (Title: Socioeconomic patterns and their dynamics in social networks and language)
Coffee Break
Pedro Ramaciotti, CNRS-Sciences Po (Title: Measuring ideological polarization in social media across countries in comparable political dimensions using political survey data)
Marvin Pappalettera, Bocconi University (Title: Mapping voters’ preferences with digital trace data and random utility models)
Philip Darius, Hertie School (Title: Social media success of populist radical right parties in the 2024 European Parliament election)
Lunch
Elisa Omodei, Central European University (remotely) (Title: The Public that Engages Invisibly: What Visible Engagement Fails to Capture in Online Political Communication)
Armin Pournaki, Max Planck Institute (Horizon SoMe4Dem project) (Title: Conflicting narratives and ideological polarization on social media)
Carlo Santagiustina, Sciences Po, (Horizon SoMe4Dem project) (Title: Issue-based self-identification and participation on social media in the EU)
Paul Bouchaud, EHESS CNRS Sciences Po (Title: Algorithmic resolution of crowd-sourced moderation on X in polarized settings across countries)
Vlad Bujdei-Tebeica, SNSPA (Title: Political Speech and Polarization: Tracing the Path from Discourse to Policy in Romania’s 2020-2024 Parliament)
Gerardo Iñiguez, Tampere University (Title: The social impact of the willingness to share opinions: from online data to controlled experiments)
Coffee break
Participants’ research teams form
Social Dinner
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Sonke Ehret, University of Lausanne (Title: Online experiments workshop)
Coffee Break
Group exercise (S. Ehret, B. Rochford)
Lunch
SICSS Unconference II
Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University (Title: TBC)
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Beatrice Franzolini, Bocconi University (Decoding Connections: A Hands-on Workshop in Network Data Analysis)
Coffee Break
Group exercise (B. Franzolini, Z. Aghamohammadi)
Lunch
Group research work
Flaminio Squazzoni, Università Statale di Milano (Exploring network dynamics with agent-based models)
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Alex Kindel, SciencesPo (Diagnostic methods for language models)
Coffee Break
Germain Gauthier, Bocconi University (The Neural Ideal Point Model)
Lunch
Group research work
Agnes Emoke Horvat, Northwestern University
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Como FC Sports Analytics (Title: TBC)
Coffee Break
Group research work - Como FC Sports Analytics Team Round table
Lunch
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
Group presentations and discussion - Group I
Group presentations and discussion - Group II
Group presentations and discussion - Group III
Lunch
Group presentations and discussion - Group IV
Group presentations and discussion - Group V
Group presentations and discussion - Group VI
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