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