Lunch

Attendees are welcome to enjoy their lunch in the gardens or bring their lunch to the breakout.

Happy Hour and Poster Session

During happy hour, poster presenters will be on hand to discuss their research.

  • A Self-Eating Snake: The Challenges for Constituent Processes in the Social Media Era and What to Learn from the Chilean failure.
    José Acevedo, Rutgers University
  • Incentivizing News Consumption on Social Media Platforms Using LLMs and Realistic Bot Accounts.
    Hadi Askari, University of California, Davis
  • More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring the Efficacy of Media Provenance for Synthetic Content Analysis.
    Wilson Chen, University of Washington
  • The Role of Narrative in Misinformation Games.
    Nisha Devasia, University of Washington
  • Looking Back to Move Forward: How 20 years of Empirical T&S Research Unveils a Better Path
    Forward.
    Michael Bochkur Dratver, The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School
  • Assessing US Military Information Operations: An Exploration into USCENTCOM J39.
    Divya Ganesan, Stanford University
  • Steps Toward Reliably Measuring Secondary Trauma Among Content Moderators.
    Alexandra Gonzalez, Cornell University
  • The Digitalized Space and Social Inequality in China.
    Niko Han, Peking University and University of Oxford
  • How to See 1000 Images: Innovative Image Analysis Methods for Problematic Information Studies.
    Nina Lutz, University of Washington
  • Mapping the Digital Divide of VPNs: How VPN providers Fail to Protect and Reach the MENA Region.
    Mina Mohammadi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
  • Digital Footprint or a Personal Right: Understanding the Opinions and Attitudes Toward Data Privacy Among Internet Users in the United States.
    Lukasz Niparko, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • Beyond the Regular Benchmarks: Evaluate Large Foundation Modelsʼ Potential Usage in Adversarial Activities.
    Tu Ouyang, Case Western Reserve University
  • Craing Synthetic Reality: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images.
    Qiyao Peng, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Meta “Meta Papers”: Analyzing Framings and Coverage of the US 2020 Election Project.
    Joseph Schafer, University of Washington
  • Bridging Nodes and Narrative Flows: A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Telegram’s Disinformation Ecosystem.
    Devang Shah, SimPPL
  • The Double-Edged Sword of User Agency: Empowerment and Risk in Decentralized Social Media Platforms.
    Aneesh Shamraj, SimPPL
  • A Legal and Ethical Analysis of the Use of AI in Journalism: A Case Study on the Financial Times.
    Zoey Soh, University College London
  • Yellowstone Is Not Erupting: Rumor Correction and How TikTok Users Made Sense of a Small-Scale Hoax.
    Julie Vera, University of Washington
  • Clearing the Haze: Examining the Impact of the EU Digital Services Act on Content Moderation Transparency.
    Alessia Zornetta, UCLA School of Law
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