The workshop will have two morning sessions around presentations, a lunch break, and an afternoon session with a keynote and an activity to help set a research agenda for the coming year.

We will meet from 9AM to 4PM in Murray Hall 208.

Breakfast/Arrival: 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Morning Session 1: 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM

  • 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Opening Remarks, Overview, and Keynote Introduction
  • 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Keynote 1, Dhanaraj Thakur, Center for Democracy and Technology
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Do Won Kim – Emotional Appeals in the 2020 #SaveTheChildren Campaign: A Multi-Platform Study of Online Engagement in QAnon Messaging

Coffee Break: 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Morning Session 2: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 PM Ruthanna Gordon – Recovering from the Golden Age of Social Media Research
  • 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Gautam Kishore Shahi – Multimodal Misinformation Detection via Early Fusion of Linguistic, Visual, and Social Features
  • 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Cody Buntain – Modeling Extreme Actors’ Exploitation of Provincial Public Health Mandates in Canada

Lunch: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Afternoon Session 1: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Patrick Wu – Comparing the Perceived Ideology of Federal Executive Agencies Across Generative Large Language Models

  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Research Access for Studying for Election Integrity and Information Security in the Modern Information Ecosystem

Coffee Break: 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Afternoon Session 2: 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM

  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM Keynote 2, Josephine Lukito, UT Austin

  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM A Research Agenda for the Global Information Ecosystem, Closing, and Thanks