Conference: Studying Society in a Digital World
Title: Studying Society In a Digital World
When: Thursday - Saturday, April 23-25, 2009
Where: Friend Center Convocation Room
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Conference Slide Presentations
Schedule
Thursday evening, April 23
Robertson Hall, Schultz Dining Room
7:00pm: Dinner and Welcomes for Invited Participants
8:00pm: Keynote - Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Day 1: Friday, April 24
Friend Center Convocation Room
8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30-10am: Session I - Studying Communications Logs
Presider: Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1) Nathan Eagle, MIT: Scaling of Sociodynamics
2) Michael Macy, Cornell: In Memory of Elizabeth Bott
3) Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard: Using Cell Phones to Study the Large-Scale Structure of Social Networks
4) Eric Horvitz, Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager, Microsoft: Through the Lens of a Large Instant-Messaging Network: Planetary-Scale Views on Behavior
10:00-10:30am: Break
10:30am-12:15pm: Session II - Using Games, Experiments, and Simulations
Presider: Betsy Masiello, Google
1) Damon Centola, MIT: New Theory and Experiments on Diffusion in Social Networks
2) Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon: Human Computation
reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures
3) Paul Resnick, Michigan: Understanding Opinion Diversity Preferences Through Field Experiments
Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators
4) Matt Salganik, Princeton: Community-Generated and Community-Sorted Information
5) Duncan Watts, Yahoo/Columbia: Running Experiments on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00pm: Session III - Tracking People in Real and Virtual Worlds (part I)
Presider: Jeffrey Boase, Rutgers University
1) Edward Castronova, Indiana: The Emergence of Virtual Money: Results from a Virtual World Experiment
2) Lada Adamic, Michigan: Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Generated Content
3) Noshir Contractor, Northwestern: Digital Traces: An Exploratorium for Understanding & Enabling Social Networks
4) Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon: Theory-Based Design of On-Line Worlds
Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia
3:00-3:30pm: Break
3:30-5:00pm: Session IV - Tracking People in Real and Virtual Worlds (part II)
Presider: Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
1) Marshall Van Alstyne, MIT: Information, Social Networks and Productivity
Scholarly papers: Information Technology & Information Worker Productivity; Networks, Information & Social Capital; Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks; Why Information Should influence Productivity
2) Chris Barrett, Virginia Tech: Co-Evolution of Socio-technical Networks and Individual Behavior
3) Samuel Madden, MIT: The CarTel Mobile Sensor Networking System
4 Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon: Information & Belief Diffusion Through Social Networks: Empirically Grounded Simulation
5:00-5:15pm: Break
5:15-6:15pm: Session V - Ethical and Legal Issues in Digital Age Research
Presider: Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon
1) Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy Counsel, Google: The Current Policy Debates Over Online Information Practices: Implications for Research in the Digital Age
2) Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist, Telligent Systems: Autobiography, Mobile Social Life-Logging, and the Transition from Ephemeral to Archival Society http://delicious.com/marc_smith/Paper
3) Paul Starr, Princeton: The Tracked Society
Dinner on Your Own
Day 2: Saturday, April 25
Friend Center Convocation Room
8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30-10am: Session VI - Research on Click Streams and Digital Traces
Presider: W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan
1) Tony Jebara, Columbia: Learning Networks of Places and People from Location Data
2) Jon Kleinberg, Cornell: Spatial Signatures of On-Line Behavior
Mapping the World’s Photos
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries
3) Ed Felten and Harlan Yu, Princeton: Estimating Aggregate Traffic to Network Sites by Remote Probing
4) Scott Golder, Cornell: Temporal Rhythms in Electronic Society: Examples from Facebook and Elsewhere
10:00-10:30am: Break
10:30-12:15pm: Session VII - Crowd-Sourcing and Distributed Intelligence
Presider: Matt Salganik, Princeton University
1) Chris Lintott, Oxford: Galaxy Zoo: Lessons from Online Citizen Science
2) Steve Kelling, Cornell: eBird: The Long Tail of Community Engagement in the Scientific Process
3) David Robinson, Princeton: The New Online Landscape of Government Data: Possible Implications for Social Science
Government Data and the Invisible Hand
4) Joshua Tauberer, Founder, GovTrack.us: Watching the Watchers: Government Oversight with Civic Hacking
5) Irene Greif, IBM: Many Eyes
12:15 - 1:15pm: Lunch
1:15-2:45pm: Session VIII - Aligning On-Line Research With the Policy Process: Reflections and Next Steps
Presider: Paul Starr, Princeton University
1) W. Russell Neuman, Michigan: Social Science and Policy Praxis
2) Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia: The Census Challenge: Why Ask Questions if the Answers Are Already Available?
3) Jane Fountain, UMass-Amherst: Policymaking in a Digital World
Registration, which is free, carries two benefits: We’ll have a nametag waiting for you when you arrive, and — this is the important part — we’ll feed you breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday. Space is limited and attendance is restricted to invited participants and to Princeton University faculty and students. In order to facilitate planning, we ask that Princeton University faculty and students (other than those invited to participate) register in advance.
To register, please contact Mindy Weinberg, at mindyw@princeton.edu or 609.258.6437. Include your name, affiliation and email address.
Directions
Robertson Hall (also known as the Woodrow Wilson School) is within easy walking distance from the Nassau Inn. When you leave the hotel, cross the street and walk through the alley past Teresa’s Restaurant to Witherspoon Street. Turn right on Witherspoon and continue to Nassau Street, turn left and continue to the next light, where you will turn right onto Washington St. Continue until you will see the large white stucco building on your left, which is Robertson Hall.
The Friend Center Building is located on Olden Street between Nassau and Prospect. It is on the corner of William and Olden, across the street from the E-Quad and next to the Computer Science Building. You can use the following address for a GPS: 35 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey. Commuting Directions
The Convocation Room is Room 113 - Enter the main doors of the building on Olden Street, walk down the hallway and the Convocation Room is the first room on the right.
To see exactly where the Friend Center is located, go to Princeton University’s campus map, click on the drop down menu and then click on Friend Center.
Recommended Lodging
The Nassau Inn, Ten Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ 08542 - Phone: 609.921.7500. The Nassau Inn is within walking distance to campus.
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