Agenda: 2020 Conference on Computational Sociology

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August 7, 2020

8:00am to 9:10am - Paper Session 1: Stratification


Dashun Wang

NORTHWESTERN KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Exploration, Exploitation and Career Hot Streaks


Jackelyn Hwang

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

‘Seeing’ Urban Contexts at Scale: Using Computer Vision to Measure Physical Conditions of Neighborhoods


Ang Yu

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON

Leveraging Machine Learning to Estimate Effect Modification


 

Sanaz Mobasseri

BOSTON UNIVERSITY QUESTROM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Catching Negativity: The Gendered Dynamics of Emotional Contagion in Email


 

René D. Flores

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Discussant


 

9:15am to 10:25am - Paper Session 2: Communication


Emaad Manzoor

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Influence via Ethos: On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online


Tina Law and Emily Bello-Pardo

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Medium is the Message? Elite Political Communication in the Age of Multimedia Online Platforms


 

Bruce Kogut and Angela Ryu

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Emotional Virality in Fake and Mainstream News: What Do Newsrooms Do Now?


 

Douglas Guilbeault

HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Promoting Shared Understanding Across Cultures: Comparing U.S. and Chinese Populations in an Online Language Game


 

Laura Nelson

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Discussant


 

10:30am to 11:40am - Paper Session 3: Culture


Bernard Koch

UCLA

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal Blackened Death of Metal Music)


 

Jina Lee and Erin Leahey

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

What types of novelty are most disruptive?


 

Ziwen Chen

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Novelty in Digital Subculture: Novelty Emergence and Response in Online Fanfiction Communities


 

Andrea Cavicchini

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Culture is the Mother of Risk: Negative Consensus on Result Orientation Norm and Organizational Misconduct


 

11:45am to 12:45pm - Interactive poster session on Discord


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Isaiah Bush

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Seeing' Urban Contexts at Scale: Using Deep Learning to Assess Streetview Image Viability for Analysis of Neighborhood Conditions


 

Anuraag Girdhar

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Examining Depolarization through an Online Belief Estimation Game


 

Kelsey Gonzalez

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Utilizing Blockmodeling, Clustering, and Heatmaps to Visualize Multinomial Logistic Regression Models


 

Sasha Johfre

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Deriving Dimensions of Meaning from Word Embedding Spaces


 

Vasundhara Kaul and Preethi Krishnan

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Defining The Good Victim: An Examination of Judicial Narratives in Domestic Violence Cases in India


 

Bernard Koch

UCLA

White Supremacy in An Academic Forest: Does Anyone Hear It?


 

Andrew Kurochkin and Kostiantyn Bokhan

UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Meme Generation for Social Media Audience Engagement


 

Jihye Lee

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Information Inequality: Using Screenomics to Understanding the Digital Engagements of Low-Income and High-Income Individuals in the United States


 

Katherine Leu

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Monolithic Majors?: Measuring Diversity and Difference in College Student Coursetaking


 

Heng-Chien Liou

NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY

Social Contagion and Associative Diffusion on Multilayer Networks


 

Moeen Mostafavi

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENT, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

A Tale of Two Metrics: Polling and Financial Contributions as a Measure of Campaign Performance


 

Jessica Santana

UC SANTA BARBARA

Embracing Failure: A Socio-Computational Analysis of Entrepreneurial Failure Narratives


 

Nga Than and Friederike Windel

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK - THE GRADUATE CENTER

#Halle and #Hanau: German Public’s Responses to White Nationalist Shootings


 

Yilun Xu

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

An Exploration to Reduction of Chicago Traffic Congestion: Regression, Time Series and Content Analysis on Divvy Bikes System