SICSS-Lake Como

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